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Caribbean-Latin America
Anti-caravan protest starts peaceful, turns tense outside Tijuana shelter
2018-11-19
[SD Union Trib] What started out as a peaceful march in Tijuana Sunday turned tense as hundreds of Mexican Racists anti-caravan protestors marched to a shelter where a couple thousand Honduran migrants were staying.

Protestors threw beer cans at riot police who blocked their entrance to the shelter as the crowd shouted, "Hondurans get out, we don't want you here," around noon in Tijuana's Zona Norte.

The march against the caravan began at 9 a.m. Sunday. Organizers said the event was not necessarily anti-migrant but anti-invasion.

"Legal migration, yes ‐ illegal invasions, no," said organizer Fidel Ernesto Gonzalez Hernandez. "That is our message."
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More than 1,000 demonstrators showed up. Many wore Mexican soccer jerseys, waved Mexican flags, and sang the Mexican anthem.

Children carried signs that read, "Mexico first," and "No more caravans." The demonstrators' main gripe with the Central American caravan is that the migrants are undocumented, therefore residents do not know how many members of the caravan have criminal records and may pose a threat. .
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"I'm not of the opinion that all of them should leave," said Tijuana resident Veronica Esquivel, 45. "I think that the criminals should be deported, and the ones who want to stay or go to the United States should do so legally."

Protestors also accused some of the migrants of smoking marijuana, trashing the streets of Tijuana and not being appreciative of the city's generosity.

"They are entitled, they even complain about the food," said Javier Alvarez, 48, of Tijuana.
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On Friday, Mexico's National Migration Institute reported that 2,679 migrants had arrived in Tijuana and 1,500 more were already in Mexicali and planned to go to Tijuana.

On Sunday, President Donald Trump said the situation in Tijuana is already getting out of hand.

"The Mayor of Tijuana, Mexico, just stated that ‘the City is ill-prepared to handle this many migrants, the backlog could last 6 months,' " Trump tweeted Sunday morning. "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!"

Anti-caravan demonstrators said the situation is already tense. Several said they were worried President Trump might close the border.

"If they close the border because of what the migrants are doing this will become a big problem," said Javier Alvarez, 48, of Tijuana. "It's going to be chaos."

Alvarez added that many people who live in Tijuana work in San Diego and vice versa. Therefore closing the border would have drastic economic consequences.

The protestors also criticized the government's response to the migrant caravan, saying the Mexican government was doing too much and too little.

Too much because more than 53 million people live in poverty in Mexico and resources should be spent on Mexicans, not migrants.

Too little because the government's response has been disorganized and ineffective.

"Why doesn't our government set up a tent city outside Tijuana where they can provide food, shelter, and water to the migrants," said Rafael Lario Juarez, 63, of Tijuana.

The group marched from Tijuana's Zona Rio to the makeshift shelter in a sports complex near the border about 11 a.m.

The original plan was to finish the march outside a government building. But protestors decided to head to the shelter where many of the migrants are staying.

Gonzalez, one of the march organizers, tried to stop the crowd to no avail.

"The march ends here!" he shouted at the marchers. "Don't go to the shelter, that's a provocation."

Men and women carrying signs and Mexican flags walked by Gonzalez.

Some shouted back, "Shut up, we're going to the shelters."
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At the shelter, the marchers were met with police barricades. Although some threw beer cans and pushed the police, the march did not turn violent.

Those staying at the shelter were not allowed to leave because of the anti-caravan march.
Posted by:Frank G

#9  Isn't that stuff Goat Pasturized?
Posted by: gorb   2018-11-19 17:43  

#8  Hope the beer cans were empty; be a shame to waste it on the invaders...(unless it was Coors; stuff make goat p!ss look appealling)
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2018-11-19 14:47  

#7  Mexicans are upset these central Americans are ruining the scam.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-11-19 12:09  

#6  Organizers said the event was not necessarily anti-migrant but anti-invasion.

I've been saying that for years.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-11-19 11:09  

#5  Who is going to feed them on their bus ride back home?

If they don't serve Soros and other NGOs needs adequately they are well and truly f*cked...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-11-19 09:19  

#4  Who is going to feed them on their bus ride back home?
Posted by: Bobby   2018-11-19 09:12  

#3  Mexicans starting to think like Mericans. Look out to the south...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-11-19 08:16  

#2  What protesters?
Posted by: gorb   2018-11-19 04:38  

#1  Give them A-10 air support
Posted by: Raj   2018-11-19 00:32  

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