AZMEX I3 UPDATE2 25 NOV 2018
Migrants who broke the police fence in the El Chaparral police station will be deported: Segob
By: Drafting / GH and AP | 11/25/2018 4:22 PM
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Alfonso Navarrete Prida said that some 500 migrants who broke the police line at the El Chaparral gate in Tijuana today will be deported.
The Secretary of the Interior pointed out that
"The National Institute of Migration will proceed to deport those who tried to violently enter the United States."
He added that "far from helping, it is harming because they become acts of provocation".
"There will be deportees, they will be the people we have identified as violent people who broke into the Mexican legal order.
The action will be firm ", Navarrete Prida announced in an interview for Milenio Televisión.
Migrants try to cross the US border by force
Central American migrants who were approaching the US border from Mexico were involved in tear gas on Sunday
after some tried to jump the fence that separates the two countries.
US agents released the gas, according to an Associated Press reporter who was at the scene.
The children screamed and coughed in the chaos that broke loose.
Ana Zúñiga, a 23-year-old Honduran migrant, said she saw the migrants open a small hole in the barbed wire on the Mexican side of a gate,
before which the agents threw the gas. "We ran, but when you run faster, the smoke suffocates you,"
She told the AP while charging her 3-year-old daughter Valery.
Several migrants also tried to jump the border fence, according to the Mexican television station Milenio.
Buyers entered and left a shopping mall a few meters away on the US side.
US Border Patrol helicopters flew over the area, while US agents guarded behind the fence in California.
Pedestrian crossings at the San Ysidro port were suspended, the Border Patrol office in San Diego said via Twitter. All traffic in both directions stopped flowing.
Hours earlier on Sunday, some Central American migrants surpassed a line of Mexican police stationed near the international crossing
in order to pressure the United States to listen to their asylum applications.
Apparently they passed easily without resorting to violence, and some of them exhorted each other to behave peacefully.
The migrants carried handmade American and Honduran flags.
A second line of riot police was on duty in front of a Mexican border control post.
These agents had installed high steel panels behind them in front of the Chaparral crossing on the Mexican side of the border.
The police asked the migrants to return to Mexico.
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 hope to apply for asylum in the United States, but agents in the port of 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.
The Ministry of the Interior of Mexico reported Sunday that the country 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.
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RELATED INFORMATION
Mexican authorities resume control of the El Chaparral border crossing in Baja California
Barbed wires and retaining walls were placed in SY checkpoint
Another part of the migrant caravan arrives to Tijuana
They throw tear gas to some Central American migrants who try to cross the US border by force
Shopping centers in San Ysidro close
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