Violence breaks out as first wave of migrant caravan arrives in Tijuana, Mexico
Violence breaks out as first wave of migrant caravan arrives in Tijuana, Mexico
Rebecca Plevin, Palm Springs Desert Sun Published 1:11 p.m. MT Nov. 15, 2018 | Updated 9:54 a.m. MT Nov. 16, 2018
The migrants are reaching their final destination in Mexico amid inflamed tensions on both sides of the California-Mexico border. Palm Springs Desert Sun
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Hundreds of people who arrived in Tijuana with the first wave of the migrant caravan planned to spend Wednesday night in a makeshift camp by the Pacific Ocean, steps from the tall border fence that separates Mexico and the United States. But those plans shifted in the evening, after local and state officials opened a temporary shelter – and about 300 local residents gathered by the encampment to demand the migrants leave the upscale Playas de Tijuana neighborhood and go to the facility.
During a confrontation that lasted more than three hours, area residents sang the Mexican national anthem and waved Mexican flags. They chanted “Mexico! Mexico!” each time a bus transporting migrants left the beach for the temporary shelter. Mostly women and children went to the shelters, while young men from the caravan said they were determined to stay together at the beach and await the estimated 2,000 more caravan members on their way to Tijuana.
Pushing, shoving, kicking and a couple of blows broke out between masses of residents and migrants, illuminated by the crescent moon and mobile light towers, set up by authorities on the beach on the U.S. side of the border. More than three dozen municipal and federal police watched, separating people and trying to prevent the situation from devolving into fistfights and chaos.
After midnight, residents assaulted journalists, injuring at least three, according to reporters on the scene.
More: The first waves of the migrant caravan have arrived at U.S.-Mexico border; thousands more expected in coming days
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Mexican residents of Playas De Tijuana confronted Honduran migrants who had set up a makeshift camp at "Friendship Park" in Playas De Tijuana. The Mexican residents demanded that the the migrants leave the area and threaten the migrants if they did not leave. Federal and Municipal Mexican police kept both groups separated and some incidents of violence broke out throughout the night. Omar Ornelas,The Desert Sun-USA TODAY NETWORK
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Mexican residents of Playas De Tijuana confronted Honduran migrants who had set up a makeshift camp at "Friendship Park" in Playas De Tijuana. The Mexican residents demanded that the the migrants leave the area and threaten the migrants if they did not leave. Federal and Municipal Mexican police kept both groups separated and some incidents of violence broke out throughout the night. Omar Ornelas,The Desert Sun-USA TODAY NETWORK
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A Honduran immigrant boards a bus taking them to a shelter as Mexican residents of Playas De Tijuana confronted the migrants who had set up a makeshift camp at "Friendship Park" in Playas De Tijuana. The Mexican residents demanded that the the migrants leave the area and threaten the migrants if they did not leave. Federal and Municipal Mexican police kept both groups separated and some incidents of violence broke out throughout the night. Omar Ornelas,The Desert Sun-USA TODAY NETWORK
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Honduran immigrants look on as Mexican residents of Playas De Tijuana confronted the migrants who had set up a makeshift camp at "Friendship Park" in Playas De Tijuana. The Mexican residents demanded that the the migrants leave the area and threaten the migrants if they did not leave. Federal and Municipal Mexican police kept both groups separated and some incidents of violence broke out throughout the night. Omar Ornelas,The Desert Sun-USA TODAY NETWORK
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