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During the final hours of Joe Biden's presidency, some 30,000 migrants waiting in Mexico

had appointments on the books to meet with U.S. immigration officials in hopes of claiming asylum.

So we decided without knowing what would happen, what would be the fate of the program itself

to see if migrants were still going to show up for their appointments

and what would happen if they tried to go up on the bridge.

Arles Hernandez covers immigration and the border for the Washington Post.

She had a hunch that led her to spend

inauguration day in Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican border town just across from El Paso, Texas.

Leading up to inauguration day, what was the mood like for the people waiting for their appointments?

For the individuals that I spoke to and spent some time with early on Monday,

there was sort of a tentative optimism.

They were abiding by the faith that if the United States had given them this date for their appointment, this long-awaited

appointment, that the United States government would indeed honor that.

But every single one of those people knew and understood that there was a possibility

that their appointments would not be honored.

That possibility turned into reality, starting pretty much the minute Donald Trump took over.

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