U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping deportation campaign and hardline approach to restricting immigration, particularly from Latin American countries, has caused a knock-on effect in Spain. The country is seeing an increasing number of Latinos arriving, abandoning their American dream.

Benjamin Enrique Berardinelli Manjarrez is one of them. The 33-year-old Colombian arrived in Madrid at the beginning of May, by way of Italy.

"My first idea was to go to the U.S. Like many other Latinos, I have this dream of America for a better life and to make money," said Berardinelli Manjarrez. "In one day, you can earn enough money to pay a month's rent in Colombia."

He was planning to travel to the U.S. border and cross illegally, but Trump's tougher immigration policies forced him to change hi

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