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This is the fifth floor.

The fifth floor, you knowssonous.

To me, Ikeye, the fifth floor, Farnak, Amidi, Sobert.

This is the fifth floor at Farnak Amidi Sobath. This is the fifth floor at the heart of global storytelling with BBC journalists from all around the world.

I'm your host, Faranak Amidi.

On his first day as president, Donald Trump signed an executive order shutting down the asylum system at the U.S.-Mexico border.

I'm about to sign some very important executive orders of our new administration.

This is a proclamation declaring a national emergency of the southern border of the United States.

That's a big one.

He also promised huge changes to the U.S. immigration system, including arrests and mass deportations

of undocumented migrants.

Every year, thousands of Latin Americans try to reach the southern U.S. border.

And after this crackdown on migration, many found themselves stuck in Mexico.

Among them is a group of Venezuelans who decided to retrace their steps back to their home country.

My colleague Santiago Vanegas from BBC Mundo has been following

their dangerous journey. Santiago is great to have you on the fifth floor. Hello, Faranak. Thank you for

having me. Santiago, one of the people you talk to is a woman called Adrianaela. What's her story?

Yes, so Adriangela is a Venezuelan young woman who spoke to me from a shelter in Panama.

Like many others, she decided to leave her country and tried to get to the U.S. to look for a better future for her and her family.

She's one of almost eight million Venezuelans that have left since 2014 because of the economic and political crisis that the country leaves.

And she left Venezuela six months ago in September of 2024 with her two-year-old daughter.

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