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Caribbean-Latin America
Tensions rise at U.S.-Mexico border as migrants, holiday travelers wait to cross
2018-11-23
TIJUANA (Reuters) - Hundreds of Central American migrants in Mexico massed on Thursday around a tense U.S. border crossing, where security measures held up long lines of Mexicans headed to Thanksgiving gatherings on the other side of the frontier.

With few belongings, and many of them with children in tow, the migrants set out for the crossing from the baseball field in the Mexican border city of Tijuana where they have been camped out. Around 6,000 migrants who have trekked across Mexico in a caravan in recent weeks are now crammed into the field.

They arrived at the Chaparral border crossing, opposite San Diego, California, and said they would wait there until they could request asylum, in spite of growing U.S. measures to tighten the border.

"We are already desperate, last night it rained and we all got wet. There is no room left. We are all sick. My children have a cold ... and nobody has come to give us help," said David, a Honduran who only provided his first name.

Earlier on Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump said he had authorized the use of lethal force on the border and warned that the United States could close the whole frontier.
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  I dropped my Femto violin and cannot find it.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2018-11-23 18:31  

#4  It's all good fun until somebody else's social services system gets overworked...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-11-23 16:54  

#3  Wait til the border's closed. See then how hospitable Tijuanans are
Posted by: Frank G   2018-11-23 09:42  

#2  Well who's fault is it if you are wet and your children are sick. Hint: look in the mirror. Maybe you should have thought first about your family before you made the trek and refused the Mexican offer of asylym.
You David are the one who chose to allow your children to become political pawns of some organization who couldn't care less.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2018-11-23 09:31  

#1  "Tensions" on the Mexican side of the border are not my concern.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-11-23 08:21  

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