{"id":33612,"date":"2026-07-07T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/?p=33612"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:26:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:26:49","slug":"chicago-venezuela-solicitante-de-asilo-corte-politica-migratoria-trump-dhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/2026\/07\/07\/chicago-venezuela-asylum-seeker-court-immigration-policy-trump-dhs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Se lo van a quitar todo en solo un mes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fws_6a4d577649748\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone flex_gap_desktop_10px\"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col padding-3-percent inherit_tablet inherit_phone flex_gap_desktop_10px\"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On April 6, 2026, Alejandro*, a Venezuelan national, went before Chicago immigration court judge Michelle Venci for an asylum hearing. The hearing began with Judge Venci informing Alejandro that the government was seeking a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thirdcountrydeportationwatch.org\/ecuador\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">third-country removal to Ecuador under an Asylum Cooperative Agreemen<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t, which allows the Department of Homeland Security to remove asylum seekers to countries with which the United States government has bilateral agreements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether respondents are incarcerated or released after they are deported to a third country is unclear, according to Elizabeth Gibson, Managing Attorney for Capacity Building at the National Immigrant Justice Center.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A crisis began in Venezuela around 2013 after long-time president Hugo Ch\u00e1vez died and his vice president, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, took over following an election. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_6a4d57764a8f7\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-flex vc_row-o-content-middle large top_margin_20px bottom_margin_20px\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"true\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row-bg-overlay row-bg-layer\" style=\"background: ##FFFFFF; background: linear-gradient(90deg,##FFFFFF 0%,##FFFFFF 100%);  opacity: 1; \"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col padding-3-percent force-phone-text-align-center inherit_tablet inherit_phone border_top_desktop_1px border_bottom_desktop_1px border_color_000000 border_style_solid\"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fws_6a4d57764af36\" data-midnight=\"\" data-column-margin=\"default\" class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row inner_row vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-flex vc_row-o-content-middle\"  style=\"\"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\"> <div class=\"row-bg\" ><\/div> <\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12_inner col span_12  left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-7 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col child_column no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone\"   data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t<h3 id=\"news-that-puts-power-under-the-spotlight-and-communities-at-the-center\"><strong>Noticias que ponen el poder en el punto de mira y a las comunidades en el centro.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Suscr\u00edbase a nuestro bolet\u00edn gratuito y reciba actualizaciones dos veces por semana. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div style=\"margin-top: -20px; \" class=\"vc_col-sm-5 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col child_column neg-marg no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone\"   data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_raw_code wpb_raw_html wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"_form_1\"><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.bluelena.io\/f\/embed.php?id=1\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alejandro entered the U.S. legally using the CBP One app during the Biden administration, he said. In the turbulent and highly emotional asylum hearing on April 6, he recounted being separated from his family and facing economic struggles and violence in Venezuela and Ecuador. The hearing ended with Judge Venci ordering a third-country deportation to Ecuador, and informing him that he has 30 days to appeal the decision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alejandro, who supports his family in Venezuela, has begun the appeal process. But he is facing an uphill battle. Thirteen of the 15 members of the Board of Immigration Appeals were appointed by President Donald Trump, and the Trump administration has pushed <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/immigrantjustice.org\/press-release\/legal-services-organizations-sue-to-block-sweeping-immigration-appeals-rule-that-eliminates-meaningful-judicial-review\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">measures<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to undermine immigrants\u2019 ability to successfully appeal to the board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alejandro talked with Borderless about his story.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My story is like that of any Venezuelan; there are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/popclock\/world\/ve\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">32 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of us, and I&#8217;m one of those who emigrated when the crisis began.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Maduro won the 2013 election, people were discontented. We started to protest; people took to the streets. Venezuela spiraled out of the government&#8217;s control because people were no longer afraid. People were protesting, exercising their right to vote.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They sent the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/apr\/16\/protests-venezuela-capriles-nicolas-maduro\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Guard to repress the people.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The government arrested some people who protested or who went out to march. They killed or disappeared others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/poverty-matters\/2013\/sep\/26\/venezuela-food-shortages-rich-country-cia\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was no food; <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">literal starvation. My family and I went hungry. We would eat only once a day. If you had enough for lunch, there wasn&#8217;t enough for dinner; you had to go to bed at 6 p.m. so your stomach wouldn&#8217;t wake you up with hunger pangs. But our stomachs sounded like they had lions in there. My salary wasn&#8217;t enough because there was a war between the opposition and the government. The government leaders were driving around in fancy cars, living well, while the poor people were always getting poorer. That&#8217;s when the immigration started.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No one in any country wants to leave their home, family, or studies to come to another country. No one wants to be hiding, unable to get a job because they don&#8217;t have papers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many Venezuelans decided to leave and go to Colombia. I arrived in 2014, worked there for a while, before returning to Venezuela. Things got worse; there was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2024\/09\/04\/venezuela-brutal-crackdown-protesters-voters\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Operation Tun Tun\u201d (Knock Knock)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which was a crackdown by state authorities on opponents of Maduro\u2019s regime. The military would show up at your doorstep, they would drag you out in front of your children, throw you in jail, and torture you. They formed a group called the Motorized Force, which was full of thugs. They would ride their motorcycles through the mud, and when the students came out to protest on Bol\u00edvar Avenue and in Isabelica, they would show their guns to intimidate the students. They tried to silence, to oppress, the voice of the people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of us left by whatever means possible. We grabbed a small bag and a couple of rags, stuffed them into a pocket, and headed for the Colombian border. I was in different parts of Colombia: C\u00facuta, Barranquilla and Cali. I was there with the mother of my children, and we were working.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We worked whatever job we could find: I sold candy on buses and at traffic lights. I cleaned windshields. I even danced on the street.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In that migration, all kinds of people emigrated\u2014doctors, lawyers, construction workers. But the gangs infiltrated the migrants, and because of them, we paid consequences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I learned to make crafts while I was on the street. I made bracelets and a type of doll, a skill a friend from Colombia taught me. There were some bad people who wanted to collect the money we earned working on the streets. There was a fight, and we had to leave.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We hitched rides, when the trucks slowed down on speed bumps, we jumped onto the back. That&#8217;s how I got to the Ecuadorian border, hanging there day and night, rain and sun falling on us. We&#8217;d get on what&#8217;s called a &#8220;mule&#8221; in Colombia. You&#8217;d go inside the truck, and there were more immigrants, women with children. When we were on the road and stopped for gas, the locals gave us water and oranges and helped us. People threw food onto the truck, and we ate.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"dont-worry-ill-return\">\u2018Don\u2019t Worry, I\u2019ll Return\u2019<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My family eventually joined me in Ecuador, where I worked for some time, but we struggled to make ends meet. I heard about the opportunity for Venezuelans to migrate to the U.S. using the CBP One app, and I had to make a difficult decision about whether to bring my children on a dangerous journey. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I said goodbye to my children in Tulc\u00e1n, Ecuador. They went home to Venezuela on a bus. Saying goodbye to my family was hard; they started crying.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I told the mother of my children, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;ll return.&#8221; She was six months pregnant, and she couldn&#8217;t make the trip to the United States, so I told her to go back home to Venezuela, and we split what money we had saved.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone flex_gap_desktop_10px\"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_6a4d57764cc9b\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; 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Do you know what&#8217;s beautiful about what I came here to do, despite all this? The people I met, the ones helping the children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We made human chains to get the children across the rivers so they wouldn&#8217;t drown. It&#8217;s beautiful to see how people are trying to survive, because it&#8217;s a constant struggle between life and death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first person I saw die in the jungle was a man. We were crossing between two mountains, and a river was flowing below. We were all crossing, chained together, holding on by a rope.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I saw a Venezuelan man holding onto a ledge below. He was on the verge of death, and he was trying to save himself by holding on. I was desperate because I was saying, &#8220;He&#8217;s going to die, let&#8217;s all help him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But we were all up above, and we couldn&#8217;t get to him, or we\u2019d die. He let go, and we all screamed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I said, &#8220;He has a family, he came here for his family. How are they going to find out he died here if there&#8217;s not even a cell phone signal?&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We wanted to bury him, but the people in our group kept saying, &#8220;Leave him, he&#8217;s already dead.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We kept going. Walking through the jungle, I saw many bodies with stones placed on them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The jungle has three paths: the path of those with money, the path of those with a little money, and the path of those with no money.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I came to a place where I saw a small tent. When we opened the tent, the dad, mom, son and daughter were all dead. When we got to Panama, the people ahead of us told us what happened.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They said the mother, father and daughter went out to build a bonfire at night, while the boy stayed inside. A snake came in and bit the boy, and he died. When the father and mother saw this, they poured themselves creosote as if they were making coffee and drank it, and they poisoned themselves. The father was lying down, hugging the boy, and the mother was sitting with the daughter. I wouldn&#8217;t wish that on anyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There was a roadblock of armed men deep in the Panamanian jungle. They robbed us, they took all our money, and they raped the women. In one of those incidents, a man was with his wife. They were going to rape her, and he tried to defend her. They killed him and his wife. The man\u2019s mother was left alone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There was a man I met who&#8217;d gone crazy. He was with his family when they crossed the river, and it swelled. When he finally made it across, his wife, son and father were swept away. He was shirtless on the riverbank, waiting for his family to come back.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We saw him wandering around the camp. It really hurt me to see him. Every time a group came by, he looked for his family. He believed the river would bring his family back to him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After Panama, I arrived in Costa Rica, and I started working unloading trucks. I saved up some money because the people in the jungle had robbed us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I eventually got to Mexico. It was worse than going through the jungle. I was kidnapped for eight days. See this scar on my face? They blindfolded me, and I was handcuffed. They sent a video to my family, and released me after my family paid a ransom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I got to Mexico City and met some other Venezuelans there. We became friends. We got an immigration appointment through the CBP One app, and the U.S. government approved it. 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