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“There’s a sense, not just with these families, that it’s not worth it to fight. They know the end result,” Meaker said.Countries with large populations living in the United States are seeing signs of more people wanting to return home.

Applications for Brazilian passports from consulates in the U.S. increased 36% in March, compared to the previous year, according to data from the Brazilian Foreign Ministry. Birth registrations, the first step to getting a Brazilian passport for a U.S.-born child, were up 76% in April compared to the previous year. Guatemala reports a 5% increase over last year for passports from its nationals living in the United States.Last month, Melvin Josué, his wife and another couple drove four hours from New Jersey to Boston to get Honduran passports for their American-born children.It’s a step that’s taken on urgency in case these families decide life in the United States is untenable. Melvin Josué worries about Trump’s immigration policy and what might happen if he or his wife is detained, but lately he’s more concerned with the difficulty of finding work.

Demand for his drywall crew immediately stopped amid the economic uncertainty caused by tariffs. There’s also more reluctance, he said, to hire workers here illegally.(The Associated Press agreed to use only his first and middle name because he’s in the country illegally and fears being separated from his family.)

“I don’t know what we’ll do, but we may have to go back to Honduras,” he said. “We want to be ready.”

The size of the exodus and its impact on schools remains unclear, but already some are starting to worry.Some sheep-farming countries are recording similar trends. New Zealand’s closest neighbor Australia — the source of most of the sheep jokes about New Zealanders — is also home to more sheep than people, but the national flock is shrinking there too.

The gap is slimmer: There are about three sheep per Australian.CARACAS (AP) — Con poca presencia de electores en los centros de votación, Venezuela celebraba el domingo comicios legislativos y de gobernadores, con la experiencia fresca de la

, los llamados de la oposición a no acudir a las urnas y una nueva acometida gubernamental que se tradujo en el arresto de al menos 70 personas en los días previos a los comicios.“Logramos hacer las elecciones sin un incidente y logramos derrotar la violencia que los terroristas tenían preparado para el país”, dijo Maduro tras sufragar en un centro de votación instalado en una escuela dentro del Fuerte Tiuna, la mayor instalación militar del país, ubicada al suroeste de Caracas.