Eyder Peralta

We had gotten on a couple of trains and they were moving in the wrong direction, everybody got off, and I was not comfortable on top of that train. You know, you're two stories up. I'm afraid of, like, Ferris wheels. So, like, I don't like heights.

The slow height of it, no. And then, like, sometimes, you know, you have to walk on top of those things and you have to jump from cart to cart. And that...

The slow height of it, no. And then, like, sometimes, you know, you have to walk on top of those things and you have to jump from cart to cart. And that...

The slow height of it, no. And then, like, sometimes, you know, you have to walk on top of those things and you have to jump from cart to cart. And that...

That made me really uncomfortable. I rarely am physically scared, right? Yeah. I was physically scared. And I sat down at some point with Pedro Anza, the photographer who was with me on this trip. And I said, I'm not doing this. And I'm like, we won't even use it for the story, I said. Because actually, in the end, we used about one paragraph of that awful 12 hours overnight of freezing cold.

That made me really uncomfortable. I rarely am physically scared, right? Yeah. I was physically scared. And I sat down at some point with Pedro Anza, the photographer who was with me on this trip. And I said, I'm not doing this. And I'm like, we won't even use it for the story, I said. Because actually, in the end, we used about one paragraph of that awful 12 hours overnight of freezing cold.

That made me really uncomfortable. I rarely am physically scared, right? Yeah. I was physically scared. And I sat down at some point with Pedro Anza, the photographer who was with me on this trip. And I said, I'm not doing this. And I'm like, we won't even use it for the story, I said. Because actually, in the end, we used about one paragraph of that awful 12 hours overnight of freezing cold.

And so in my mind, I was making that calculation, right? And he stopped me and he said, you will never understand what they go through unless you get on the train with them.

And so in my mind, I was making that calculation, right? And he stopped me and he said, you will never understand what they go through unless you get on the train with them.

And so in my mind, I was making that calculation, right? And he stopped me and he said, you will never understand what they go through unless you get on the train with them.

You know, just as President Trump took office, I was in Ciudad Juarez at the border. And I actually met some of the same migrants that had been on the train with me. The same people. The same people. And they were waiting in line because they had gotten... a CPP-1 appointment, which is this app that the Biden administration used to have. And that's kind of like, that is the glimmer of hope.

You know, just as President Trump took office, I was in Ciudad Juarez at the border. And I actually met some of the same migrants that had been on the train with me. The same people. The same people. And they were waiting in line because they had gotten... a CPP-1 appointment, which is this app that the Biden administration used to have. And that's kind of like, that is the glimmer of hope.

You know, just as President Trump took office, I was in Ciudad Juarez at the border. And I actually met some of the same migrants that had been on the train with me. The same people. The same people. And they were waiting in line because they had gotten... a CPP-1 appointment, which is this app that the Biden administration used to have. And that's kind of like, that is the glimmer of hope.

That was the glimmer of hope for so many migrants, right? And on that day, Trump takes the oath of office and that app goes offline just minutes after he does. And the heartbreak on that international bridge, it's hard to describe, honestly. You're just watching somebody's world crumble in a few minutes.

That was the glimmer of hope for so many migrants, right? And on that day, Trump takes the oath of office and that app goes offline just minutes after he does. And the heartbreak on that international bridge, it's hard to describe, honestly. You're just watching somebody's world crumble in a few minutes.

That was the glimmer of hope for so many migrants, right? And on that day, Trump takes the oath of office and that app goes offline just minutes after he does. And the heartbreak on that international bridge, it's hard to describe, honestly. You're just watching somebody's world crumble in a few minutes.

And to know, I guess, to have felt what it's like for a little tiny period, right, of how hard that journey is, to watch it crumble on that day, I mean, you know, I think it's difficult.

And to know, I guess, to have felt what it's like for a little tiny period, right, of how hard that journey is, to watch it crumble on that day, I mean, you know, I think it's difficult.

And to know, I guess, to have felt what it's like for a little tiny period, right, of how hard that journey is, to watch it crumble on that day, I mean, you know, I think it's difficult.

Thank you, Scott.