Guillermo Galdos

1 week ago | channel4.com | Guillermo Galdos

With Donald Trump’s birthday – it was surely a coincidence that he happened to schedule a rare military parade commemorating 250 years of the US Army. But amid warnings of bad weather, attendance was low, with his opponents across the country instead taking to the streets to call for ‘no more Kings.’In Los Angeles – people have been protesting the President’s aggressive deportations of immigrants, where Trump controversially deployed the national guard in response.

2 weeks ago | channel4.com | Guillermo Galdos

After days of protest and unrest in Los Angeles against Donald Trump’s immigration raids, police say they’ve arrested more than 200 people. The President claimed his decision to deploy US Marines as well as the National Guard was to prevent the city being “conquered by a foreign enemy”. But residents in many neighbourhoods are increasingly fearful – as the number of immigration raids is scaled up.

1 month ago | channel4.com | Guillermo Galdos

Two years ago, Channel 4 News accompanied a group of migrants on a perilous journey across the Darien Gap – a 60-mile stretch of thick rainforest that separates Colombia from Panama. The only land crossing between South and North America, thousands of migrants braved the Darien Gap every day, hoping to reach the US. Now though, crossings are at their lowest level since records began 25 years ago, amid Trump’s crackdown on migrants. We went back there.

Mar 12, 2025 | channel4.com | Guillermo Galdos

As well as tariffs, Donald Trump campaigned on blocking off the US-Mexico border, to stop migrants arriving. And with his tariff threats hanging heavy over Mexico, the authorities there are keen to show how far. The number of crossings has fallen, but in Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El Paso in Texas, the effects of the crackdown are being felt in the shelters, and even in the cartels. With fewer people to smuggle, they’re fighting over smaller profits.

Mar 12, 2025 | channel4.com | Guillermo Galdos

“The number of people crossing into the US has gone down dramatically. Before there were a lot of people. Now you can only see two, three trying to cross.”It’s hard to hear the Mexican National Guardsmen over the helicopter blades, as we fly over the stretch of land between the city of Juarez, and El Paso in Texas. But it’s easy to see the migrants beneath us, running through the steep terrain, trying to escape our view. Some make a futile attempt to disappear under blankets in the scrubland.