AZMEX I3 UPDATE 26 NOV 2018
300 elements of the Federal Police will reinforce security in BC: Governor
Francisco Vega de Lamadrid Photo: Archive
By: Drafting / GH | 26/11/2018 14:51
https://www.lacronica.com/News/2018/11/26/1390460-300-elementos-de-la-Policia-Federal-legaran-a-reforzar-seguridad-en-BC-Gobernador.html
TIJUANA, Baja California (GH)
The Governor of the State, Francisco Vega de Lamadrid revealed that 300 elements of the Federal Police
will arrive in Baja California to reinforce security.
He said that these will help the surveillance regarding the migrant situation that exists in the State.
He reiterated the need for the Federation to take responsibility for this problem,
because in only food they spend more than 500 thousand pesos.
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Arrest 39 migrants in Tijuana for attempting illegal crossing into the US and disturbing the peace
By: AP | 11/26/2018 9:56 AM
https://www.lacronica.com/Nacional/2018/11/26/1390392-Arrestan-a-39-migrantes-en-Tijuana-por-intentar-cruce-ilegal-a-EU-y-perturbar-la- peace.html
The Mexican government pledged on Sunday to strengthen security near its border with the United States and local authorities reported the arrest of 39 migrants. A peaceful march unleashed chaos after US agents threw tear gas at Mexico to stop migrants who tried to cross the border.
The Ministry of the Interior of Mexico reported Sunday that it will immediately deport those who tried to "violently" enter the United States from Tijuana. Meanwhile, the Tijuana municipal government said more than three dozen migrants were arrested for disturbing the peace and other charges stemming from the march and subsequent events.
The vast majority of the more than 5,000 Central American migrants who camped for more than a week at a sports complex in Tijuana returned to the makeshift shelter to train to receive food and recover from a disturbing afternoon.
Lurbin Sarmiento, 26, from Copán, Honduras, walked to the sports complex with her 4-year-old daughter, both disturbed, for what had just happened between the Tijuana River and the border with the United States.
She was at the bottom of the river - a concrete drain with barely a trickle of water - near the border with her daughter at the moment when US agents fired tear gas.
"We ran but the gas always reached us and my girl was drowning," Sarmiento said. He pointed out that he would never have come so close to his daughter if he had known that there would be gas.
The gas reached hundreds of migrants protesting near the border, when some of them tried to cross the fence and the wire that divides both nations. The US authorities closed for several hours the border crossing of San Ysidro, the busiest in the country.
The situation deteriorated after the group began a peaceful protest to ask the United States to speed up the process of asylum applications for Central American migrants stationed in Tijuana.
Mexican police had prevented them from going through a bridge that leads to the port of entry into Mexico, but the migrants pushed the agents and crossed the Tijuana River under the bridge. Although on the other bank there were more riot police, the Central Americans walked down the river to an area where only a levee of dirt and barbed wire separated them from US Border Patrol agents.
Then some thought that there was an opportunity to cross.
A reporter for The Associated Press saw US agents shoot several tear gas cartridges after some migrants tried to penetrate the border through several points. The Mexican television station Milenio showed images of people climbing fences and tearing sheets of metal to enter US soil
The 23-year-old Honduran Ana Zúñiga said she saw the migrants open a small gap between the sharp wire on the Mexican side of a dam, before which the agents threw the cartridges.
The children screamed and coughed in the chaos that was unleashed by the gas, which was swept by the wind towards people who were hundreds of meters away.
"We ran, but when you run faster, the smoke suffocates you," he told the AP while holding his 3-year-old daughter Valery.
A few meters away on the US side, buyers entered and left a shopping center, which finally closed its doors.
Throughout the day, US Border Patrol helicopters overflew the area, while agents watched behind the fence in California. Pedestrian crossings at the San Ysidro port were closed in both the east and west facilities, the Border Patrol office in San Diego said via Twitter. All north-south traffic and vice versa stopped flowing. Every day, more than 100 thousand people enter the United States from that point.
Kirstjen Nielsen, US Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), said in a statement that US authorities will continue to maintain a "robust" presence on the southwestern border and will prosecute anyone who damages federal property or violates US sovereignty.
"DHS will not tolerate this type of disorder and will not hesitate to close the ports of entry for reasons of public safety," he said.
More than 5,000 migrants have been camping inside and around a sports complex in Tijuana after touring Mexico in recent weeks as part of a caravan. Many are hoping to apply for asylum in the United States, but agents in San Ysidro are processing less than 100 requests a day.
Ireneo Mújica, who has accompanied the migrants for weeks as part of the activist group Pueblo Sin Fronteras,
( people without borders ) said the goal of Sunday's march to the US border was to make the plight of migrants more visible to governments. from Mexico and the United States.
"We can not have all the people there," Mujica told the AP.
Juan Manuel Gastélum, mayor of Tijuana, declared on Friday a humanitarian crisis in this border city of 1.6 million inhabitants, which he says is struggling to provide accommodation for the large number of migrants.
US President Donald Trump expressed his dissatisfaction with caravans in Mexico on Twitter on Sunday.
"It would be very smart if Mexico stopped the caravans long before they reached our southern border, or if the countries they came from did not allow them to create them (it's a way to get certain people out of their country and throw them into the United States. But not anymore), "he wrote.
Then he sent another tweet saying: "Mexico should transfer these migrants who wave their flags, and many of whom are cruel criminals, back to their countries. Do it by plane, by bus, as you wish, but they are NOT GOING TO ENTER THE US. We will close the border indefinitely if necessary. Congressmen: Grant funding for the wall! "
Trump has repeatedly issued unfounded accusations that migrants are criminals. In reality, they are the vast majority of poor migrants, with few belongings, who flee from the violence and poverty of their countries. During the presidential campaign, Trump promised to erect a wall along the entire border and force Mexico to pay for it.
The Ministry of the Interior reported Sunday that Mexico has sent 11,000 Central Americans back to their countries of origin since October 19. He indicated that one thousand 906 of them were members of the last caravans.
Mexico is on track to deport some 100 thousand Central Americans by the end of the year.
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(AP)
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