Who's afraid of Donald Trump returning to the White House? In Latin America, it seems, not many. The US election is apparently having little impact on migration.

"It's not 100% irrelevant who's in the White House, but pretty much," says Benjamin Schwab, program officer for Mexico with the Catholic aid organization Misereor. Misereor supports a number of local partner organizations in Mexico that provide social and legal assistance to refugee families from Latin America.

In Schwab's assessment: "Presidential candidate Trump is not a panic factor in terms of migration." After all, people already have experience of Trump as the US president. Although it was repeatedly announced, it's well known that the Trump administration — in government from 2017 to 2021 — did not complete the much-vaunted wall along the US–Mexico border, and despite Trump's promises, Mexico did not contribute to paying for any of it.

"Even Trump wasn't able to close the border," says........

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