Along A Dark Mexican Beach, Caravan Members Play Hide-And-Seek With The US Border Patrol

BuzzFeed ^ | December 2, 2018, at 2:28 p.m. ET | Adolfo Flores BuzzFeed News Reporter

[conservative98]

Unwilling to wait weeks in Mexico to press their asylum claims, a group of 30 caravan members, with a BuzzFeed News reporter in tow, search for a way to skirt the border barriers.

Javier Piñeda and his sleeping 10-year-old son huddled in the dirt with a group of Central Americans from the caravan, who were eyeing their latest obstacle: the US border fence and the agents who patrol it.

Piñeda was one of about 30 people who'd walked two hours to get here. They'd been kicked out of the sports complex where they'd been housed since arriving in Tijuana about two weeks ago, but instead of moving to the new shelter authorities had set up on the outskirts of town, Piñeda and the others had decided they'd try crossing the border along the beaches, where Tijuana meets the Pacific Ocean. Some carried only the clothes on their backs, but one man had wrapped his cellphone in a plastic bag in case they were forced to swim. Others had left their clothes behind with friends in case they couldn't make it into the US and returned.

They had no choice, Piñeda said. Piñeda believes he has a good asylum claim, but can’t afford to wait months for US border authorities to give him the chance to ask for refuge. The 32-year-old has four kids, including a baby who was a month old when he left home in mid-October, and a wife back home in Honduras who depend on him to make enough money for them to eat. He didn't believe that he could support his family on what he might make in Mexico in the months he was likely to have to wait.

[Polyxene]

Has anyone asked the Hell’s Angels for their help?

[Svartalfiar]

and a wife back home in Honduras who depend on him to make enough money for them to eat. He didn't believe that he could support his family on what he might make in Mexico in the months he was likely to have to wait.

And yet, somehow, he has made enough $$ in a month of caravaning to support his family? How did they survive the whole month he wasn't doing jack shit?

[conservative98]

exactly

[DickBrannigan]

Mick Jagger did, IIRC....

[ZOOKER]

Javier Piñeda and his sleeping 10-year-old son

I see they're still going with the "human shield" meme.

[trebb]

Yep - he’s in a hurry to begin welfare so he can “support” his family.

[Vaduz]

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