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EXCLUSIVE: Retired New York Giants information Jack Brewer and his planetary ministry are connected the crushed successful Guatemala City this week, helping officials person migrant families deported from the U.S., providing food, enactment and supplication arsenic they fundamentally commencement beingness anew.
Brewer and his Jack Brewer Foundation person years of acquisition moving successful impoverished areas of the satellite similar Haiti, Malawi and Central America, which Brewer said has allowed him to enactment person than astir and interact with the returning families.
While it is President Donald Trump and borderline czar Tom Homan enforcing U.S. instrumentality and deporting amerciable immigrants, Brewer said it is wide erstwhile President Joe Biden’s "broken" policies are genuinely to blasted for the heartache and hardship.
"Three years ago, I started to travel the fatherlessness situation that is happening close present successful Guatemala, wherever a batch of men were leaving their households and coming to Joe Biden’s unfastened borders – and conscionable seeing it virtually devastate families."
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Brewer said Guatemala was losing overmuch of its workforce and that a batch of those mediocre families trying to get to the U.S. really did not cognize a "legal" migration way existed, and they alternatively took the cartels and others astatine their connection and paid thousands of dollars to beryllium trafficked north.
"They’ve been told by coyotes and antithetic radical that you tin conscionable travel [to the U.S.], and if you travel here, if you bring your child, they'll conscionable fto you in," Brewer said.
"And so, you know, there's a immense acquisition spread determination connected the ground."
Brewer besides met with Raul Berrios from CONAMIGUA – the National Council for Attention to Migrants of Guatemala – arsenic good arsenic Sergio Samuel Vela-Lopez, caput of the Guatemala Penitentiary Department.
Berrios, Lopez and others are trying to make an effectual strategy for welcoming the migrants and processing those who are guiltless families versus those who whitethorn person transgression records oregon different issues requiring authorities attention, according to Brewer.
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Many families returning to the superior metropolis unrecorded hundreds of miles into the countryside and person nary established mode of getting there. Some buses, however, person been hired to instrumentality migrants person to home, and Brewer visited 1 of them and spoke to its driver.
"It’s truly a unsocial perspective, I think, and conscionable immoderate of the things that we've witnessed since we've been here," helium said, adding stories ranged from familial hardships to reports that much than a twelve radical person been burnt live by Mexican cartels for failing to wage for passage.
"It’s conscionable beauteous pugnacious to spot and witnesser and watch."
When a U.S. subject level arrived carrying migrants, Brewer was connected the tarmac.
"We were capable to supply them with nutrient and, astir importantly, with Bibles, and we preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
Brewer said the Guatemalan Migration Authority is focusing its efforts connected children ages 8 and under. Many of these children person been "lied to," Brewer said.
"They’re told it’s their life’s ngo to migrate to the U.S. illegally," helium said, recounting stories told by immoderate returning migrants of children connected the backs of cartel coyotes and others drowning successful rivers.
Then-Vice President Kamala Harris made her ain trip to Guatemala City successful March 2024, seeking to recognize the "root causes" of amerciable migration.
"When you look astatine the basal causes, we're besides looking astatine issues of corruption. Again, we're looking astatine the contented of clime resiliency and past the interest astir a deficiency of economical opportunity," Harris said successful 2021.
Brewer rejected that Harris’ enactment made immoderate difference, saying she and her then-boss’s policies "empowered quality traffickers" and that fractional of Guatemala inactive lives successful utmost poorness with small education.
He said the erstwhile enactment astatine the State Department "misguided resources" done USAID, a signifier that Trump is present aggressively cutting backmost on.
"We request to archetypal enactment our resources into addressing the issues that are fueling a multibillion-dollar quality trafficking industry. Walls, deportations and enforcement are a must, but educating indigenous populations connected the truths of coyotes volition present a devastating stroke to the modern quality enslaved trade," Brewer said.
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"Guatemala is not enforcing their migration contented successful the country. Haitians and Venezuelans are warned of the dangers of migrating, but determination is nary enforcement astatine the time."
"There needs to beryllium apprehension and enforcement, but they necessitate resources. Guatemala prisons are already overcrowded, and they don’t person migration beds disposable for enforcement," added Brewer, who said helium besides visited those prisons and saw conditions for himself.
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