Thread: Tijuana shelters are full as increasing number of asylum-seeking families wait

Tijuana shelters are full as increasing number of asylum-seeking families wait at San Diego border

POSTED 6:55 AM, OCTOBER 22, 2018, BY SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, UPDATED AT 07:57AM, OCTOBER 22, 2018

SAN DIEGO -- Federal officials are seeing a steep increase in families and unaccompanied minors seeking legal asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, and shelters in Tijuana report they are housing record numbers of migrants waiting their turn.

The number of people who are part of a family unit seeking legal entry into the U.S. through the San Diego ports of entry in fiscal year 2018, through August, was up 139 percent compared to the same period in 2017. The number was 12,340, up from 5,167, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

Customs and Border Protection statistics show a 31 percent increase in unaccompanied children during the same period.

The majority of unaccompanied children come from Guatemala while the families are overwhelmingly coming from Mexico’s interior, the data shows.

Others come from Nigeria, Honduras and Pakistan.

Tijuana’s shelters say they are strained from the number of mothers with children trying to enter the U.S. seeking asylum through the San Ysidro Port of Entry, after the U.S. ended a policy of family separations at the border. Thousands are hunkering down in Tijuana shelters or in tents right outside on the streets.

https://fox5sandiego.com/2018/10/22/...-diego-border/

"The majority of unaccompanied children come from Guatemala while the families are overwhelmingly coming from Mexico’s interior, the data shows.

Others come from Nigeria, Honduras and Pakistan."

Load those UAC's on buses and drop them off on their President's doorstep!

We do not want them.

Their country IS responsible for their human rights...not the USA or it's taxpayers!

Trump is NOT their President and this is not their country!

WE DO NOT WANT ANY OF THEM!

DO NOT WAREHOUSE THEM OR RELEASE THEM ON OUR SOIL.

GET THEM OUT!

WE ARE "STRAINED" FROM YOU DUMPING YOUR PEOPLE OVER OUR BORDER!

SHUT THE BORDER DOWN! YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE!!!

Here’s what happens when migrant caravan arrives at U.S. border

Illegal immigrant families set record in 2018; top 100,000 for first time

On the border in El Paso, the migrant caravans arrive so regularly there's a housing crunch

Plenty of abandoned housing in their country...send them back!

We owe them NO housing, no welfare, no food stamps, no school and medical care!