Migrants who crossed into the United States before President Donald Trump returned to the White House told the New York Post that they’re thankful they arrived before the 47th president closed the border.

“Many of us got here before Trump came to office, like in my case,” John Sanchez, 30, a dual citizen of Colombia and Venezuela, told the outlet at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston on Wednesday.

The newly-inaugurated Trump administration has ended the previous Biden administration’s “catch-and-release” immigration policy, and illegal immigrants who are apprehended at the border can now only be released with approval from the Department of Homeland Security.

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