Central American migrants stuck in Mexico and Guatemala aren’t shy about their feelings about President Trump, and many are praying for his downfall in 2020 to revive hopes for a new life in America.

“I want Trump out!” Honduran mother Katherine Cabrera told the Center for Immigration Studies’ Todd Bensman. “I’ll wait for that because it would make things easier to get in.”

Cabrera is among dozens of migrants Bensman spoke with in the southern Mexican city of Tapachula, where travel restrictions require they apply for asylum there or go home. Cabrera, toting her newborn, said she’s watching the election from Mexico and rooting for Democrats.

Dozens of others are making the same gamble, pursuing their claims in Mexico with plans to move north and wait it out “until Trump leaves,” Honduran Wilson Valladaras told Bensman.

The consensus, he said, is “right now, the Americans will throw you back” to Mexico if caught crossing illegally.

Tapachula is Mexico’s main migration gateway along the Suchiate River, which separates the city from the Guatemalan town of Tecun Uman. Migrants heading north stay at the Casa del Migrante, a Catholic church and the only shelter in Tecun Uman.

That’s where Bensman spoke with Brenda Ramos, an El Salvadorian mother who was planning to cross the river the next day with her two-year-old daughter.

“A lot of people in El Salvador believe he (Trump) is the reason all this is happening, that he is selfish and cruel and doing everything he can to make us suffer,” she said. “But once Trump is defeated and the Democrats take over, things are going to get better.”

New agreements with Mexico and Guatemala, along with reinforcements at the U.S.-Mexico border and a “Remain in Mexico” asylum policy has helped to drive down apprehensions from about 144,000 last May to 40,000 in December, CIS reports.

A massive caravan is now attempting to push north through Tecun Uman, where about 3,000 found the gate shut on the border bridge to Mexico early Monday, The Associated Press reports.

“We have come peacefully to try to start a dialogue with the government, in order to reach an agreement in which all the members of the caravan will be allowed permission to freely pass through Mexican territory,” a migrant who refused to give his name read out loud at the gate, as hundreds sat on the bridge over the Suchiate.

On Saturday, Mexican troops slammed the gate shut during a scuffle on the bridge with migrants. The soldiers fortified the border and patrolled with drones over the weekend, while Mexican officials offered asylum and the promise of jobs to about 1,000 who were bused to Tapachula for processing, the AP reports.

In 2019, about 70 percent of all asylum claims in Mexico – roughly 44,000 –  were filed in Tapachula, though Alma Delia Cruz, head of the Mexican processing agency there, estimates about 40 percent abandon their claims.

She estimates none of the remaining 60 percent actually intend on making a life for themselves in Mexico.

“None want to stay in Mexico; this is just their first chance to get into the United States, of course,” she told Bensman. “I don’t know what’s on the minds of these people exactly, but the treats from Trump can’t deter them from eventually getting into the U.S.”