MEXICO CITY (AP) — Donald Trump’s victory in the United States presidential election instantly changed calculations for millions of migrants or potential migrants across the globe.
But perhaps not in the way Trump imagined.
Trump has pledged to reduce immigration. But by narrowing the already limited legal pathways into the U.S., migrants will just recalibrate their plans and resort in greater numbers to hiring smugglers, experts say.
In many cases that will mean turning to organized crime groups that increasingly profit from migrant smuggling.
(AP video by Moises Castillo, Fernanda Pesce, Edgar Clemente)
Those potentially affected come from dozens of countries and many have already sold their homes and their possessions to fund the trip.
Venezuelans continue arriving at the…
