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    Tijuana mayor says $30,000-a-day funding for migrants is about to run out

    Tijuana mayor says $30,000-a-day funding for migrants is about to run out


    By Greg Norman | Fox News



    Migrants look through a pile of donated clothes in the street outside of an overflowing sports complex where more than 5,000 Central American migrants are sheltering, in Tijuana, Mexico, on Tuesday. (AP)






    The mayor of the Mexican border city increasingly under strain from the growing number of migrants arriving there in hopes of crossing into the U.S. says he expects funds supporting them to run out by Friday.


    Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum revealed Tuesday the city only has enough resources to assist the crowds for a few more days. The city's treasurer, Ricardo Chavarria, told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Tijuana has been spending around $30,000 a day on the caravan arrivals.


    “We won’t compromise the resources of the residents of Tijuana,” Gastelum said during a press conference. “We won’t raise taxes tomorrow to pay for today’s problem.”


    Nearly all of the migrants that have arrived in Tijuana have been hunkering down at an outdoor sports complex within sight of the U.S. border -- a place that is becoming more overcrowded each day. A delegate in the Tijuana area and an official overseeing that shelter told Fox News on Wednesday there are currently around 6,000 migrants there, 4,000 of which are men. The rest are about split evenly between women and children.


    Mexico’s new president Andrés Manual López Obrador is set to begin his administration this weekend and Gastelum is hoping the federal government can step in and provide more resources.

    A boy eats as others wait in line for dinner outside of a shelter housing members of the migrant caravan in Tijuana. (AP)


    Obrador's government signaled Tuesday it would be willing to house the migrants while they wait to apply for asylum in the U.S., but did not elaborate on what plans it may be considering.


    "Prepare ourselves to assume that a good part of them are going to be in this area of Mexico for the coming months," said the incoming foreign relations secretary, Marcelo Ebrard.


    He vowed the government will “have to support local authorities,” according to the Associated Press.
    "That is not a bilateral negotiation. That is something we have to do,” Ebrard said.


    He also asked the Trump administration Tuesday to chip in at least $20 billion on development projects to help create jobs in Central America. Many of the migrants say they fled their home countries to escape threats of violence from gangs and to find work.


    Chavarria told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Tijuana is in budget trouble because it's almost the end of the fiscal year and it does not want to cut back on municipal services.


    "This is costing us... to keep these people here and all those funds have to come from someplace and it's municipal funds," Delegate Genaro Moreno, who represents the region, told Fox News.
    Gastelum said the city is so starved for cash that it can’t afford extra tarps for the migrants ahead of the looming rainy Thursday forecast, the newspaper added.


    Gastelum said officials have identified sites where the federal government can set up a facility to assist the migrants, but the outgoing administration has been silent in response.


    “The pretext that they are leaving is not an excuse,” Gastelum said, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. “I, as a citizen, want answers from this government that I pay taxes to.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by stoptheinvaders View Post

    He also asked the Trump administration Tuesday to chip in at least $20 billion on development projects to help create jobs in Central America. Many of the migrants say they fled their home countries to escape threats of violence from gangs and to find work.
    Who didn't see that coming?

    All these events have become so predictable.
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    NO MORE EXTORTION MONEY!



    Ask Hollywood to chip in...go build golf course resorts, restaurants, RV resorts, bars, businesses, vacation homes! Put your money where your mouth is! They have land, they have resources!

    Offer to send in NATO troops...WE already pay the bill for it! Go in and round up the gangs and put them in prisons!

    Violence and fear removed!


    GIVE THEM NOTHING! WE GIVE BILLIONS WITH ZERO RESULTS!

    BUS TICKETS ARE CHEAP...LOAD THEM UP AND SEND THEM BACK!

    USA WILL NOT COMPROMISE OUR SAFETY, OUR SECURITY, OUR HOMESLESS, OUR VETERANS' OR OUR SOCIAL SERVICE PROGRAMS FOR FOREIGNERS!

    GO HOME!
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    THEY COST US TAXPAYERS $133 BILLION A YEAR...GO TO BLAZES!

    SEND THEM BACK!

    NO SOB STORY FROM YOUR WOMEN, CHILDREN, LGBT, UAC'S!

    SEND THEM TO THEIR PRESIDENT!
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    $20 billion is almost what we need to build Trump's promised border wall! So instead of giving these countries $20 billion, let's just use the money to secure our border with a wall.

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    $20b to give to Central America???

    It’s cheaper to build the dam wall which is what taxpayers want.


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    6000 migrants are costing the city $30,000 a day.?? That's only $5 per migrant per day. If they were in america they'd be costing our taxpayers 30 times that.

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    Excerpt from article at

    https://www.kusi.com/drone-footage-o...-caravan-camp/

    Ebrard told reporters Tuesday a key administration goal is securing a U.S. commitment to development projects in Honduras, where the vast majority of the migrants in the caravan come from, as well as neighboring Guatemala, El Salvador and elsewhere in Central America.

    “What are we negotiating with the United States? We want them to participate in the project I just mentioned” to create jobs in Central America. Asked how much the U.S. should contribute, Ebrard suggested the figure should be at least $20 billion.

    “Mexico by itself is going to invest in our own territory during the next administration, more than $20 billion, and so any serious effort regarding our brothers in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, should be for a similar amount,” Ebrard said.

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    Really? Is the US in negotiations over this $20 billion?
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    NO MONEY!

    20 BILLION FOR THE WALL

    YOU LIE, CHEAT AND STEAL ALL HELP WE SEND

    GO TO BLAZES!

    LOL...DO NOT GIVE THEM ONE CENT

    SET UP A "GOFUNDME"!!!
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