Thread: As migrant caravan reaches Tijuana, overwhelmed city asks for $4 Million

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As migrant caravan reaches Tijuana, overwhelmed city asks Mexican government for $4 million

By William La Jeunesse | Fox News

1,000 migrants sharing one bathroom at Tijuana rec center

Shelters overflowing in the Mexican city as thousands more are expected to arrive in the coming days; William La Jeunesse reports from the scene.

TIJUANA – Tijuana has asked the Mexican federal government for $4 million so the city could accommodate thousands of migrants who part of a caravan that for the past month has been making its way to the border.

Almost 2,000 members of the migrant caravan have already descended on this border city – about 5,000 more are expected to arrive in the coming days.

Tijuana has 700 shelter beds that are already full. So a municipal sports complex has turned into a tent city, with shivering migrants hunkering down in tents and sleeping on cots as they wait to determine their next steps.


Tijuana has 700 shelter beds that are already full. So a municipal sports complex has turned into a tent city, with shivering migrants hunkering down in tents and sleeping on cots as they wait to determine their next steps. (Fox News)


About 1,000 migrants are sharing one bathroom.

U.S. border agents patrolled the area in helicopters and ATVs while contractors welded razor-wire to the border fence to make sure no one tries to illegal cross into the U.S.

The request for funds from the government comes as tensions between the migrants and local Mexicans has grown tense. On Wednesday, a fight broke out as Mexicans yelled at the migrants:

“Go home. We don’t want you here!” Members of the caravan said local police made no attempt to break up the fight.

After pledging to stay together for safety, many exhausted migrants, who spent weeks marching in blazing temperatures, raced ahead in cars or buses, leaving behind thousands of others who were waiting for transportation.


Border agents say they are ready for the mass asylum requests, which could take six months to process. (Fox News)


Border agents say they are ready for the mass asylum requests, which could take six months to process.

“We’ve been getting ready before this happened,” Rodney Scott, chief patrol agent of the Border Patrol's San Diego sector, told Fox & Friends. “We have shifted several hundred border patrol areas to here. We will not let people mass across the border here in San Diego.”

While the border is not closed, U.S. officials said members of the caravan are expected to get in line – just like everyone else. It’s unclear right now how long it will take to process thousands of migrants expected to try and cross the border in the coming weeks.

"We will not deny access to the ports of entry,” said Pete Flores, U.S. Customs and Border Protection field office director. “But we may ask undocumented persons to wait until we have the capacity to process them.”

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Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

"We will not deny access to the ports of entry,” said Pete Flores, U.S. Customs and Border Protection field office director. “But we may ask undocumented persons to wait until we have the capacity to process them.”

What exactly does "we may ask" mean?

Clearly it has already been decided that
"We will not deny access to the ports of entry,”

now after all this show of troops and wire - it is "we may ask" them to wait their turn"---that sounds like but if they want to bum rush us---well that's ok too.

Hey Mexico...buses are cheaper...send them BACK.

$4 million is a drop in the bucket.

We are paying $133 BILLION a year.

We will not let them in...you start forking over the billions for these breeding parasites!

YOU let them in...YOU keep them!

OPERATION RETURN TO SENDER!

Why does the mexican government allow them to stay?

Why is Trump even allowing these fakers the ability to file Asylum Claims?

Why are the Border Agents approving the initial 'Credible Fear Test' and allowing these people
into the U.S. to proceed with a court hearing?

Sessions changed the Burden of Proof onto the migrant requiring verifiable evidence of there 'Creditable Fear'
and absent that verifiable evidence, the agents were ordered by the DOJ to deny entry at the front gate.

Originally Posted by lorrie

Why is Trump even allowing these fakers the ability to file Asylum Claims?

Great question!

By his own words the President called this an Invasion.

How invaders are allowed to claim asylum is beyond me.

Trump told everyone right up front that they would be allowed to enter at the Ports of Entry.

Caravan asylum seekers can enter at ports of entry only, Trump

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Trump told everyone right up front that they would be allowed to enter at the Ports of Entry.

Caravan asylum seekers can enter at ports of entry only, Trump

Yes, he sure did, and if they decide that process is too slow and decide to cross in between ports, well that will be accepted also, just like it is today, and has been. Heck, if they get stuck on one of the Islands, they'll send the BP to rescue them and bring them on in.