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It had to happen. As we suspected would happen. The caravan migrants, still cooling their heels out of sight of tourists in an isolated redoubt of Tijuana, in line awaiting for their U.S. asylum claims to be adjudicated, have finally turned on their rabidly left-wing organizers – namely, Pueblo Sin Fronteras. The Associated Press has a pretty good report about the scope of the migrant disgust: We know that the migrants have turned on the organizers because suddenly, they are nowhere to be found in Tijuana. Some are still talking for the cameras, but the Tijuana mayor says he wants...

For those who remain, their chances of legally entering the U.S. diminished this week after the Trump administration and Mexico’s government announced Thursday that immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. will be forced to wait in Mexico while their cases are reviewed —a process that can often take well over a year. So as authorities in both countries continue to debate policy with no long-term solution in sight, many migrants are hunkering down for months, or possibly years, in a purgatory of makeshift accommodations and spotty services. Coello, who said he had organized committees of migrants along the entire caravan...

As the migrant “caravan” continues to dominate headlines, many of us are focusing on protecting the rights of those who are fleeing violence in their homelands. I recently traveled to Tijuana where I volunteered at a legal information table under a tent outside of Benito Juarez sports complex, a temporary shelter for roughly 6,000 Central Americans. What I saw was appalling, and a direct result of the fabricated crisis created by this administration. One fact about the shelter became immediately clear. The shelter did not, in fact, provide shelter. It is an uncovered sports arena, which provided no refuge from...

Two groups of Central American migrants delivered a list of demands to the US Consulate in Tijuana in Tuesday, with one group demanding to be let into the United States, or be paid $50,000 each to go home, according to the San Diego Union Tribune. --- Two groups of Central American migrants made separate marches on the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana Tuesday, demanding that they be processed through the asylum system more quickly and in greater numbers, that deportations be halted and that President Trump either let them into the country or pay them $50,000 each to go home. On...

A suspect in a 1987 bombing that wounded six American soldiers in Honduras is leading a group of migrants demanding entry into the United States. Alfonso Guerrero Ulloa organized a march of approximately 100 migrants to the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana, Mexico, on Tuesday, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Ulloa delivered a letter to the consulate on behalf of the migrants, asking for either entry into the U.S. or a payment of $50,000 per person. “It may seem like a lot of money to you,” Ulloa told the Union-Tribune. “But it is a small sum compared to everything the United...

In Tijuana, you often hear hard truths that no one would dare express here.  Get a load of this bit of jarring advice from a Tijuana man to a caravan migrant who was seeking a job in Tijuana as he waited out his asylum claim to the U.S. "Don't come here with the mentality of Honduras," he said.  "This is a new country, a new state where you can change yourself if you want to." Cripes, what was that person talking about?  Was the Tijuana man suggesting that Hondurans are lazy?  I've never known any Latin American immigrants who had actual jobs who were lazy...

For some time now, the advance guard of the caravan has been sheltered in the Tijuana sports complex, where officials have been providing them with food and basic medical attention as best they can. That came to an end this weekend. While officials in Tijuana had said that they didn’t plan to forcibly move anyone, they are now shipping the migrants to a concert venue ten miles further from the border. Apparently, the conditions inside the stadium had become too grim to bear. (Washington Times) The conditions inside that stadium definitely sound grim. It doesn’t help that the venue had...

Full title: Gavin Newsom Wants to Pull CA's National Guard From the Border...Because They're More Useful Elsewhere California Governor-elect Gavin Newsom has long been at odds with President Donald Trump's immigration policies. Now, he's looking at pulling the state's National Guard from the border because he believes their services can be better used elsewhere. “I have every desire to pull those Guardsmen back and assist in other capacities,” Newsom said . “It’s my intention today, but every day conditions change, and so I want to caveat that with that understanding.” Newsom also said he planned to discuss the border situation...

If wrecking American sovereignty, lowering wages, and increasing the public welfare load aren’t reasons enough to oppose the influx of migrant invaders sitting in Tijuana, here is another: At least 30 percent of them are sick with communicable diseases they might spread to Americans in schools, hospitals, welfare and employment offices, and other public places.And by “sick,” officials in Mexico don’t mean the common cold. They mean serious disease. Some of the migrants are turning around and heading home after months of traveling through Mexico, as The New American reported today. But with a third of the 6,000 or so...

'It's a Federal Crime': Tijuana Mayor Says Caravan Organizers Should Be Arrested TIJUANA, Mexico – After declaring the migrant caravan a “humanitarian crisis” this week, Mayor Juan Manuel Gastélum told Fox News that he can no longer continue to fund the municipal effort to shelter them without federal assistance. “I’m not going to break public services to solve this problem,” the Tijuana mayor said. Efforts were underway to move some of them to a new location because of reports that more migrants were making their way to Tijuana. Mayor Gastélum blames the organizers for whom he cannot identify. He said...

A handful of Central American migrants camped out at the U.S.-Mexican border waiting to plead their case for asylum in the US launched a hunger strike to protest the Mexican police blocking their way....[snip]. Mexican immigration authorities began transporting some of [them] via buses to a new shelter. Under .... immigration policies introduced by the administration of President Donald Trump, U.S. border officials say they may have to stay put in Mexico for months before they can petition authorities....[snip] On Thursday, ...[sob] Mexican police stopped more than a dozen from the caravan approaching the El Chaparral border crossing. “What the...

According to the Tijuana Health Department, more than one-third of those who rode the caravan from Central America are being treated for an illness. Out of the 6,000 illegal aliens who are currently in Tijuana, 2,267 of them are are ill. Diseases include respiratory infections, tuberculosis, chickenpox and other more serious conditions, Fox News reported. The Tijuana Health Department spokesperson who spoke with Fox News confirmed that there are:• Three confirmed cases of tuberculosis.• Four cases of HIV/AIDS.• Four separate cases of chickenpox.• At least 101 have lice.• Multiple skin infections.The department is also warning about a potential Hepatitis outbreak because...

Two San Diego teens who took a day trip to Mexico to visit a friend last Friday were found dead in a Tijuana apartment in what is being investigated as a triple homicide. Christopher Alexis Gomez, a 17yo football player at O’Farrell Charter HS, and Juan Suarez-Ojeda, a recent graduate of Ingenuity Charter School, set out to visit their friend, an 18yo Tijuana resident,... Gomez and Suarez-Ojeda told family members that they planned to attend a barbecue in Ensenada, about 50 miles south of Tijuana, and would return to the U.S. on Friday night, ... When the two failed to...

After months of an arduous journey across Mexico, some migrants are giving up on seeking asylum in the U.S., while several of them are falling ill in filthy, overcrowded shelters. ... in Tijuana, a sports complex... doesn't have the capacity to host 6,000 ... who now live under poor sanitary conditions... sleep on the floor using cardboard boxes....setting up tents ... makeshift shelters, but the overcrowding has led to respiratory illnesses, lice and chicken pox... ... the migrants’ hopes of seeking refuge on U.S. soil is fading, and at least 350 asked authorities to help them return [home.] [A Guatemalan...

FULL TITLE: EXCLUSIVE: Hundreds of migrants begin to 'self-deport' back to Central America as TB, chicken pox and lice become endemic at squalid Tijuana sports complex with only 35 portable toilets and nine showers - sheltering 6,000 people These are the hellish conditions that are driving members of the Central American migrant caravan to finally turn their backs on their US dream - by 'self-deporting'. Despite traveling as much as 4,500 miles - much of it on foot - hundreds of migrants have already accepted free flights home rather than stay longer in the filth-strewn sports complex that has become...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tusq2AFTqko The Trumpian Equalizer (physical pain for lawbreakers) begins at 2:17. Shot in the hand by a rubber bullet – Ouch that’s gonna leave a mark.

Tijuana Delegate Genaro Lopez Moreno slammed leaders of the migrant caravan in Mexico for selling false promises to those vying to enter the United States. Moreno told Fox News' Griff Jenkins that caravan leaders "aren't coming through" on their promises of a "great American dream." "[The migrants] are noticing that," he said. "They know they're gonna be better back home." His remarks come as Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum said Tuesday that his city is running out of resources to help those in the caravan. Delegate Moreno also lays much of the blame on the caravan organizers who he believes...

Full title: Tijuana mayor says $30,000-a-day funding for migrants is about to run out Resources running low as migrants flood Tijuana. City officials say they're worried about money running low and resources running scarce.... The [Tijuana] mayor is increasingly under strain from the growing number... he expects funds supporting them to run out by Friday. .... The city's treasurer [said] Tijuana has been spending around $30,000 a day on the caravan arrivals. “We won’t compromise the resources of the residents of Tijuana,” Gastelum said... “We won’t raise taxes tomorrow to pay for today’s problem.”.... there are around 6,000 migrants there,...

The migrant caravaners are here! And leading figures in the media from CNN's Jim Acosta to political leaders like former president Barack Obama – who made all sorts of false or baseless claims about them – have egg all over their faces. In his now infamous confrontation with President Trump during a White House news conference just after the midterm elections, Acosta admonished the president that the migrants were "hundreds and hundreds of miles away." CNN screen grab. It turns out that over 5,000 of them started showing up in Tijuana, the Mexican town opposite San Diego, just days later;...

The mother seen in a now-famous photo desperately pulling her daughters away from tear gas plumes at the US-Mexico border said she never imagined American forces would fire mace canisters at women and children. “We never thought they were going to fire these bombs where there were children, because there were lots of children,” Maria Meza said in an interview with Reuters. SEE ALSO US agents fire tear gas at migrants in start of border clashes with Mexico US agents fire tear gas at migrants in start of border clashes with Mexico The 35-year-old mother from Honduras set out to...