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    Angry Tijuana Residents Push Back Against Migrant Caravan: ‘This Is an Invasion’

    Angry Tijuana Residents Push Back Against Migrant Caravan: ‘This Is an Invasion’

    November 19, 2018



    Hundreds of angry residents took to the streets of downtown Tijuana on Sunday to protest the caravan of Central American migrants that has been streaming into the city in recent weeks.

    Carrying Mexican flags and singing the national anthem, the demonstrators marched to a sports complex where about 2,000 of the migrants are being housed. There, held back by a wall of riot police, they denounced the mostly Honduran migrants as “criminals” and “freeloaders” who were openly flouting Mexican law.

    “This is an invasion!” shouted local carpenter Luis Alexis Mendoza, according to the Los Angeles Times. “We demand respect. We demand that our laws be followed.”

    Sunday’s anti-caravan march reflected simmering tensions in Tijuana, a sprawling border city of about 1.6 million, over the arrival of the latest Central American caravan. While the city has long been a waypoint for migrants of all stripes heading to the U.S., it has not had to deal with the presence of thousands of homeless Central Americans who are waiting indefinitely to apply for asylum at the ports of entry.

    Some Tijuana officials, concerned about the city’s ability to accommodate thousands of newcomers, have called on the Mexican federal government to stop or divert migrants who are en route to the city.

    “Tijuana is a city of immigrants, but we don’t want them in this way,” Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum said in an interview with Milenio Television on Thursday. “It was different with the Haitians, they carried papers, they were in order. It wasn’t a horde, pardon the expression.”

    The mayor’s comments reflected anger among many Tijuana residents at the increasing number of caravan migrants camped in shelters and public spaces in the city. At least 3,000 were there as of Sunday, and thousands more are expected to arrive over the coming weeks.

    Wait times to apply for asylum at U.S. ports of entry near Tijuana are expected to skyrocket in part because of tougher border security measures the Trump administration has implemented in recent weeks. Under a new executive order, anyone caught crossing the border illegally is ineligible for asylum protections, meaning asylum-seekers have to line up at ports of entry to have their claims heard.

    The policy, which is aimed at channeling asylum-seekers to the ports of entry, comes as thousands more Central American migrants have assembled in caravans headed for the southwest border.

    There are as many as 10,000 migrants crossing the country in several caravans, according to the Mexican interior ministry. Most of those migrants are expected to end up in Tijuana in the coming months.


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    Mexicans Protest Migrant Caravan Arrivals at U.S. Border: ‘They Are Invaders’

    By David Brennan On 11/19/18 at 7:44 AM



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    Angry protests broke out on the Mexican-U.S. border as local residents rallied against the arrival of thousands of migrants from Central America hoping to claim asylum in the U.S.
    Hundreds of residents took to the streets of Tijuana Sunday to call for the removal of the new arrivals, claiming they would put unsustainable stress on local services, the Associated Press reported.
    Around 3,000 members of the migrant caravan had already reached the border. Thousands more are expected to arrive in the coming weeks, and their total number could reach as high as 10,000.
    The travelers have been on the road for more than a month and now face a long wait to have their asylum claims processed. Mexican and U.S. authorities have strengthened security at border crossing points as more and more migrants arrive.
    On Sunday, protesters gathered at a statue of Aztec ruler Cuauhtemoc, around a mile from the U.S. border. Waving Mexican flags and singing the national anthem, the demonstrators chanted, “Out! Out!” and suggested the Central American migrants “are invaders! They are armed! Get out of the country,” Reuters reported.
    Esther Monroy, 58, told Agence France-Presse she was worried that the arrival of the migrants would lead the U.S. to close the border crossing entirely. “Most of us in this depend on business from people coming and going across the border,” she explained. “If they close it, it will be [the migrants'] fault.”
    Counterprotesters stood nearby in support of the new arrivals, calling on the government to do more to assist the vulnerable migrants waiting for their turn to apply for asylum north or the border. The counterprotesters were far smaller in number than the anti-migrant demonstrators, AP reported.
    Anti-immigrant protesters demonstrate before marching on an immigrant shelter on in Tijuana, Mexico, on November 18. Angry protests broke out on the Mexican-U.S. border as local residents rallied against the arrival of thousands of migrants from Central America hoping to claim asylum in the U.S. John Moore/Getty Images
    Juan Manuel Gastelum, the mayor of Tijuana, warned that local authorities were not ready to handle an “avalanche” of new arrivals. The mayor warned that migrants would have to wait up to six months to be processed by U.S. authorities—a strain that might prove too much for his city of 1.6 million people.
    On Saturday, Mexico’s Interior Ministry said the government was sending extra food and blankets to help migrants in Tijuana. The local government has converted a municipal gymnasium and recreational complex into a shelter to keep migrants out of public spaces. This move has more than quadrupled the city’s shelter capacity—from 700 in privately run facilities to up to 3,000 at the gymnasium.
    President Donald Trump frequently mentioned the caravan in the run-up to the midterms, banking on immigration as an issue that could energize his base.
    Despite Trump's aggressive rhetoric, which critics condemned as "racist," and his deployment of around 7,000 American troops to the border—branded a <acronym title="Google Page Ranking">PR</acronym> stunt by opponents—the Republicans suffered a heavy defeat at the polls. Though the party managed to cling on to its Senate majority, the Democrats took back the House by a comfortable margin.
    The president was quick to pick up on Gastelum's warnings. On Sunday, he tweeted: “The Mayor of Tijuana, Mexico, just stated that ‘the City is ill-prepared to handle this many migrants, the backlog could last 6 months,’” he tweeted. “Likewise, the U.S. is ill-prepared for this invasion, and will not stand for it. They are causing crime and big problems in Mexico. Go home!”

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