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    Mystery surrounds Tijuana border rush

    Mystery surrounds Tijuana border rush

    Crowd shouted "¡Viva Villa!" while approaching border

    By Sandra Dibble 8:02 P.M.NOV. 26, 2013


    A scene in the Tijuana River on Sunday afternoon as a group moves toward the border, shot by Bryan Chilian, who is working with two partners on a documentary about deportees. — UkBalaam

    TIJUANA — Video footage, anonymous leaflets, and eyewitness accounts on Tuesday offered some insights into last weekend’s incident that saw more than 100 people rush a heavily patrolled stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border in broad daylight.

    But the larger questions remained unanswered: Exactly who instigated the mass action on Sunday afternoon one quarter-mile west of the San Ysidro Port of Entry--and for what purpose?


    Bryan Chilian said he was in the Tijuana River channel filming a documentary about homeless deportees when he and his two partners noticed the crowd shouting “¡Viva Villa!” and moving toward the border--and followed with their cameras. “We tried to figure out who was the leader, but we couldn’t,” Chilian said in an interview Tuesday. “We couldn’t see anyone leading or making signs.”


    One of the partners, Jesús Guerra Huerta, said they didn’t recognize the participants from their months of documentary work in the area. “None of the people we know in the channel were there,” he said.


    Video shot by the team
    showed participants of varying ages, including children, a man carrying his baby and a one-legged man walking on crutches.


    A copy of a leaflet calling for the march said it was organized “with the intention of crossing to the United States, to reunite with our children, families.” The Spanish-language text spoke of problems in Mexico, “and for that reason, we must unite and go to the United States.” It concluded by calling for discretion.


    On Tuesday morning, at Padre Chava soup kitchen near the river channel, hundreds lined up for a free warm breakfast.

    Administrators said the center had no connection to the incident.


    Bruno Alvarez, a deportee who volunteers with crowd control, stands Tuesday outside the Padre Chava soup kitchen. — Sandra Dibble“It didn’t seem to be well organized,” said Bruno Alvarez said, a 41-year-old deportee and volunteer at the center, who said he learned of plans days before the incident from the leaflets distributed in the neighborhood outside.

    He said he watched Sunday as people began converging in the area, but the timing was uncertain. “it was going to be at 10 a.m., then at noon, then at 1 p.m.” Alvarez said, who decided not to join. “It looked like it was going to fail before it even started.”


    Tent city run near the Tijuana River by deportee advocate group Angeles Sin Fronteras on Tuesday morning. — Sandra Dibble
    Near the soup kitchen, at a tent city for deportees set up by the group Angeles Sin Fronteras, coordinator Javier A. Reyes said the incident “had nothing to do” with his organization. “We don’t lend ourselves to crossing in a crowd, that would be seen as invading territory.”

    U.S. Border Patrol agents used pepper spray and other means to repel the crowd that refused an order to stop, with some members hurling rocks and bottles at the agents. No arrests were made, and while a Border Patrol statemente reported that Mexican authorities had been contacted, Tijuana police have denied knowledge of the incident.


    Migrant advocates in Tijuana on expressed concern that it easily could have flared into a dangerous situation. “This is extremely serious, there could have been fatalities,” said Gilberto Martínez, administrator at Casa del Migrante, a migrant shelter in Colonia Postal.


    Martínez and others questioned the aim of the march: If the aim was to cross, they said, why would they have done so in the middle of the day and at that precise location?


    “This seems to be very strange,” Martínez said. “There are a lot of things that don’t make sense.”


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    San Ysidro Border Rush Had Been Planned For A Week

    Deported migrants and others tried to rush U.S. Border Patrol agents just west of San Ysidro last Sunday, in hopes that some would get through to the U.S.

    Credit: U.S. Border Patrol
    Above: A Border Patrol statement says several agents were hit in the arms and legs with rocks and one was hit in the head by a water bottle during the confrontation. But there were no serious injuries.

    Tuesday, November 26, 2013
    By Jill Replogle

    Deported migrants attempted a once-common tactic of rushing the border en masse on Sunday. But Border Patrol agents met them with tear gas and rubber bullets and forced them to turn back.


    San Ysidro Border Rush Had Been Planned For Week


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    Authorities say more than 100 people had crossed into the U.S. west of the San Ysidro border checkpoint and became unruly when a border agent tried to stop them and then fired pepper balls. Deportees in Tijuana said plans to rush the border had been in the works for a week.


    Deportees in Tijuana said plans to rush the border had been in the works for a week.

    It all started with a guy handing out pocket-sized fliers at the Padre Chava breakfast hall for migrants and deportees in Tijuana. The fliers called for a mass border crossing on Nov. 24.


    “So that we can reunite with our children, families,” the flier read in small, Spanish text.


    By Jill Replogle
    “So that we can reunite with our children, families,” the flier read in small, Spanish text. “And for those who want the American dream and so that we can help our families succeed,” the flier continued in rambling fashion, ending with a call for discretion and “Sí se puede!” written three times.


    “And for those who want the American dream and so that we can help our families succeed,” the flier continued in rambling fashion, ending with a call for discretion and “Sí se puede!” written three times.

    Bruno Alvarez Jimenez, a deported migrant who has helped serve breakfast at Padre Chava’s hall for more than a year, said the organizer showed up daily to rally participants. But people were skeptical.


    “There was a lot of indecision among those who organized this,” Alvarez said, adding that the proposed time for attempting the border rush kept changing.


    “People didn’t take it very seriously,” he said.


    The mysterious lead organizer — Alvarez said he’d never seen him before at the breakfast hall, where most diners are regulars — announced that there would be three groups of would-be border crossers.


    One would attempt to cross near San Ysidro, one at Playas de Tijuana, near the coast, and one in the Otay Mesa area.


    Alvarez didn’t know if the latter two groups actually tried to cross. A Border Patrol spokesperson said agents hadn’t encountered any other large groups attempting to cross last Sunday afternoon.


    Alvarez estimates that more than 200 people showed up on Sunday to join the border rush — or at least to watch. Border Patrol said the group numbered “more than 100.”


    They met in the trash-strewn Tijuana River canal, about a quarter-mile west of the San Ysidro Port of Entry.


    At around 2 p.m., part of the group approached a Border Patrol agent stationed at an opening in the fence that lines the northern side of the canal. When they didn’t back off, the agent fired pepper balls at the crowd.


    More agents showed up and some people threw rocks and plastic bottles at them too.


    “Unfortunately there’s always somebody who doesn’t think,” Alvarez said, adding that he thought the guy who started the rock throwing wasn’t even part of the group attempting to cross.


    “They made us all look bad,” Alvarez said of the provocateurs, “because we were just planning to run, not confront (the Border Patrol agents) or provoke them.”


    In the end, several people were injured by rubber bullets and — according to accounts in the Mexican press — Tasers.


    The Border Patrol did not respond to an interview request. In a statement, the agency said several agents were struck with rocks in the arms and legs, and one agent was hit in the head with a water bottle.


    In the statement, Paul Beeson, chief patrol agent for the San Diego sector said, "The agents showed great restraint when faced with the dangers of this unusually large group.” He added that no one was injured seriously.


    Mass border crossings were common in the San Diego area in the 1990s. Back then, agents often were easily outnumbered and lacked the technology and infrastructure to stop at least some people from getting through during mass crossings.


    Since then, the size of the Border Patrol has increased five-fold and a triple-layer fence has been built across much of San Diego’s border zone.


    In the wake of Sunday’s skirmish, Alvarez said he worried how Border Patrol agents would treat people like him, who repeatedly attempt to cross the border. He’s tried three times to get back to El Monte, Calif., where he said he lived for 13 years before getting deported.


    “That’s where I built my estate,” he said. “I left my house there, my cars, my wife, my son.”


    He said he and his fellow deportees who joined the mass border-crossing attempt did it knowing full well they could get caught and thrown in jail. But with better planning and a more prepared leader, Alvarez thinks some could have gotten through to the U.S.


    “He didn’t know how to follow through what he was organizing,” Alvarez said of the leader.


    From now on, Alvarez said, he’d keep trying to cross on his own.


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    Big border confrontation was planned, sources say

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    SAN YSIDRO, CA — The crowd that rushed Border Patrol agents earlier this week after illegally crossing the border in the Tijuana River channel was a planned act of disobedience, sources within Border Patrol told Fox 5 Tuesday.

    “The tension went way up,” said Border Patrol Agent Gabe Pacheco, speaking on behalf of the National Border Patrol Council about the handful of agents at the scene who called for back up against the large crowd said to have been well over 100 people.

    “They were saying, ‘You can’t do anything to us. We own this,” Pacheco said.

    Customs and Border Protection officials said the crowd also threw rocks at Border Patrol agents, who responded with pepper rounds and other non-lethal weapons.

    “We deployed non-lethal munitions, and we finally got the crowd to disperse,” Pacheco added.

    BorderAssaultThe incident comes just weeks after CBP rejected a recommendation by a federal committee to end the use of lethal force against rock throwers.

    “I commend the Border Patrol agents. They really showed a tremendous amount of restraint,” said Pacheco.

    The crowd eventually went back over the line.

    “It could’ve escalated,” said immigration activist Enrique Morones, who also praised agents for not having used deadly force. He said the crowd was made up of people who have been deported in the past and are living homeless in or near the channel.

    “They’re frustrated. They’re desperate. They want to go back to their families (in the United States),” said Morones.

    The tactic of large crowds rushing the border to cross illegally used to be seen more often during the early 1990’s.

    “I hope it doesn’t happen again, but it might happen,” said Pacheco. He said that frustration over Congress’ inability to pass immigration reform could lead to more illegal crossings of large crowds, a tactic that could put lives at risk.

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    C.B.P. NEWS RELEASE

    U.S. Border Patrol Agents Assaulted by Large Crowd of Mexican Nationals in California

    (Tuesday, November 26, 2013)San Ysidro, Calif. — Border Patrol agents working near the U.S./Mexico International Border yesterday were assaulted with rocks and bottles.

    On November 24, more than 100 people illegally crossed the International Border from Mexico one-quarter-mile west of the San Ysidro Port of Entry in the Tijuana River channel.

    The group advanced toward a Border Patrol agent positioned one-eighth of a mile north of the border. The agent ordered the group to stop. The group ignored his commands and continued to advance.

    The agent deployed his PepperBall Launcher System, an intermediate use-of-force device, in an effort to stop the group and protect himself. The crowd failed to respond appropriately.


    Numerous agents responded to the scene as the crowd became increasingly unruly and began throwing rocks and bottles. The crowd struck several agents in the arms and legs with rocks; one agent was hit in the head with a filled water bottle.

    Agents deployed several intermediate use-of-force devices and Mexican law enforcement authorities were contacted. The use of intermediate use-of-force devices eventually caused the group to return to Mexico and disperse.


    Paul Beeson, San Diego Sector chief patrol agent said “While attacks on Border Patrol agents are not uncommon, the agents showed great restraint when faced with the dangers of this unusually large group, and fortunately no one was seriously injured.”


    No one was arrested and no one was able to continue north.


    To prevent the illicit smuggling of humans, drugs, and other contraband, the U.S. Border Patrol maintains a high level of vigilance on major corridors of egress away from our Nation’s borders. To report suspicious activity to the U.S. Border Patrol, contact San Diego Sector at (619) 498-9900.


    U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation's borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.


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