Chitchat Guatemala Caravan Overruns Mexico Border! What If Rohingya Horde Smashes Through Jiuhu Borders And Head For CECApore? How?

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every country has her right to protect her border. building 6.9 layers of no-man's land filled with (1) artillery fire zones, (2) barbed wires, (3) minefields, (4) trenches, (5) pillboxes, (6) anti-tank and anti-vehicle ditches, (6.9) machine gun nests will be better than just a wall. you walk into a minefield on your own volition you die. simple as that.

Well said..but why do those left wing bleeding heart liberal fuckwits make such a fuss about it? Are they retards who lack common sense or an asshole of the 1st degree

 

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every country has her right to protect her border. building 6.9 layers of no-man's land filled with (1) artillery fire zones, (2) barbed wires, (3) minefields, (4) trenches, (5) pillboxes, (6) anti-tank and anti-vehicle ditches, (6.9) machine gun nests will be better than just a wall. you walk into a minefield on your own volition you die. simple as that.

And one other point. If the USA close off the border. It will signal to the Mexicans to close off their border as the Mexicans will not want to be burdened with these sort of economic parasites in their country. N for USA factories that relocate to Mexico it will disrupt their supply chain etc hence more incentives to bring factories back to USA. Kill a few birds with 1 stone.

 

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Donald Trump to cut Central American aid as 7,200-strong caravan continues march north
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President Donald Trump says the US will begin curtailing tens of millions of dollars in aid to three Central American nations, calling a caravan of migrants bound for the US a "national emergency".

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US has decreased aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador by almost 40 per cent since Mr Trump took office
Caravan's numbers continue to grow, UN estimates it is currently at around 7,200 people
"Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were not able to do the job of stopping people from leaving their country and coming illegally to the US," Mr Trump tweeted.

"We will now begin cutting off, or substantially reducing, the massive foreign aid routinely given to them."

Mr Trump and his fellow Republicans have sought to elevate the caravan, which has made its way into Mexico bound for the US border, and immigration as campaign issues ahead of the mid-term elections, in which his party is fighting to maintain control of the US Senate and House of Representatives.


"Remember the Midterms!" Mr Trump wrote in Twitter posts decrying the caravan and attacking Democrats on immigration.


Mr Trump, who has taken a hard line towards illegal immigration since taking office last year, also wrote that he had alerted the US military and border patrol "that this is a National Emergency" though he did not say what actions he was planning.

In campaigning for Republican candidates last week, Mr Trump highlighted the caravan issue.

Mr Trump was travelling to Texas, a key border state, on Monday (local time) to campaign for Republican senator Ted Cruz, who is seeking re-election.

A young girl with wavy brown hair and wearing a pink top sleeps on the footpath with people walking past in the background
PHOTO A migrant family walks past a girl as she sleeps along a sidewalk in Tapachula city centre.
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US has already made big cuts to Central American aid
Since Mr Trump became President last year, the United States has moved to sharply decrease aid to Central America.

In 2016, the United States provided some $US131.2 million ($185.18 million) in aid to Guatemala, $98.3 million to Honduras, and $67.9 million to El Salvador, according to official US data.

By next year, those sums were projected to fall to $69.4 million for Guatemala, $65.8 million for Honduras, and $45.7 million in the case of El Salvador.

Combined, the cuts amount to a reduction of almost 40 per cent for the three nations.

Mr Trump was not specific about how much more he wanted to cut.

Migrants hold their hands out for food donations in Tapachula
PHOTO Migrants hold their hands out for food donations in Tapachula city centre.
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Lieutenant Colonel Jamie Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said that while National Guard troops are currently supporting the Department of Homeland Security on the border, the Pentagon had not been asked to provide additional support.

There are currently 2,100 National Guard troops along the border in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California, according to the Pentagon.

Representatives for the White House and the US Border Patrol did not immediately reply to requests for comment.

Migrants say Mr Trump using caravan for political ends
Thousands of migrants, mostly Honduran, massed late on Sunday in the Mexican city of Tapachula near the Guatemalan border, local police said.

They stretched out overnight on rain-soaked sidewalks, benches and public plazas in the city, worn down by another day's march under a blazing sun.

Some huddled under a metal roof in the city's main plaza.

Others lay exhausted in the open air, with only thin sheets of plastic to protect them from ground soggy from an intense evening shower, while some had no plastic at all.

Dozens of people sleep on the ground in a public square at the base of a statue of a man with his arm raised in the air
PHOTO Honduran migrants sleep in a public plaza in Tapachula featuring a statue of Mexican national hero Miguel Hidalgo.
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About another 1,000 migrants were walking toward them from Ciudad Hidalgo further south, according to a Reuters witness.

Members bristled at suggestions there could be terrorists among them and said the caravan was being used for political ends by Mr Trump.

Seeking to escape violence and poverty in their home countries, the migrants — men, women and children — have defied threats by Mr Trump that he will close the US-Mexican border if they advanced, as well as warnings from the Mexican government.

Police in riot gear shadowed the caravan's arrival along a southern highway but did not impede the migrants' journey.

The caravan's numbers have continued to grow, and the United Nations estimated that it comprised some 7,200 people, "many of whom intend to continue the march north".

However, they were still some 1,800 kilometres from the nearest border crossing — McAllen, Texas — and the length of their journey could double if they go to Tijuana-San Diego, as many did in another caravan earlier this year.

A group of migrants wearing hats and with t-shirts over the heads stand in a crowd with the sun on their heads
PHOTO Central American migrants wait on the bridge in Ciudad Hidalgo that connects Guatemala and Mexico.
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'Hunger and death' driving people to join caravan
"It is a shame that a President so powerful uses this caravan for political ends," said Irineo Mujica of the group Pueblo Sin Fronteras — People Without Borders — which works to provide humanitarian aid to migrants.

Some have questioned the timing so close to the vote and whether some political force was behind it, though by all appearances it began as a group of 160 who decided to band together in Honduras for protection and snowballed as the group moved north.

"No one is capable of organising this many people," Mr Mujica said, adding that there are only two forces driving this: "hunger and death".

A woman in a pink t-shirt and another in a blue and white spotted shirt hand out water bottles as numerous hands reach for them
PHOTO Residents hand out water bottles to Central American migrants at the main plaza in Tapachula, Mexico.
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A team of AP journalists traveling with the caravan for more than a week has spoken with Hondurans, Guatemalans and Salvadorans, but has not met any Middle Easterners, who Mr Trump suggested were "mixed in" with the Central American migrants.

It was clear though that more migrants were continuing to join the caravan.

Denis Omar Contreras, a Honduran-born caravan leader with People Without Borders said Mr Trump should stop accusing the caravan of harbouring terrorists.

"There isn't a single terrorist here," he said.

"We are all people from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. And as far as I know there are no terrorists in these four countries, at least beyond the corrupt governments."

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Mexico torn between stopping, aiding migrant caravan

• By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN, ASSOCIATED PRESS

TAPANATEPEC, Mexico — Oct 27, 2018, 6:59 PM ET

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The Mexican government seems torn between stopping several thousand Central American migrants from traveling toward the U.S. border in a caravan or burnishing its international human rights image.
On Saturday, more than a hundred federal police dressed in riot gear blocked a rural highway in southern Mexico shortly before dawn to encourage the migrants to apply for refugee status in Mexico rather than continuing the long, arduous journey north. U.S. President Donald Trump has urged Mexico to prevent the caravan from reaching the border.
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Police let the caravan proceed after representatives from Mexico's National Human Rights Commission convinced them that a rural stretch of highway without shade, toilets or water was no place for migrants to entertain an offer of asylum. Many members of the caravan have been travelling for more than two weeks, since a group first formed in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
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Not long after the caravan resumed the trek north Saturday, government officials were seen for the first time directly helping the migrants by giving rides in trucks and providing water along the scorching highway.
Martin Rojas, an agent from Mexico's migrant protection agency Grupo Beta, said he and his fellow agents planned to use agency pickup trucks to help stragglers catch up with the caravan.
"There are people fainting, there are wounded," said Rojas, who spoke to The Associated Press after dropping off a group of women and children in Tapanatepec, where the caravan planned to spend the night. Rojas transported the group to their destination after spotting them on a highway trudging through temperatures approaching 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius).
Most of the migrants in the caravan appeared determined to reach the U.S., despite an offer of refuge in Mexico.
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Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto launched a program on Friday dubbed "You are home," which promises shelter, medical attention, schooling and jobs to Central Americans who agree to stay in the southern Mexico states of Chiapas or Oaxaca, far from the U.S. border.
Mexico's Interior Ministry said that temporary identity numbers have been issued to 111 migrants under the program. The IDs, called CURPs, authorize the migrants to stay and work in Mexico, and the ministry said pregnant women, children and the elderly were among those who had joined the program and were now being attended at shelters.
After another brutally hot day on the road with her husband and 8-year-old son, Alejandra Rodriguez said the possibility ofhealth care and a work permit in Mexico sounded enticing. But as she laid out a tarp and blanket to sleep in a covered parking area in Tapanatepec, the 26-year-old from Tegucigalpa, Honduras said she'd prefer to start a new life further north. She had heard that job opportunities were scarce in southern Mexico.
Orbelina Orellana said she and her husband were determined to continue north as well.
"Our destiny is to get to the border," said Orellana, who left three children behind in San Pedro Sula. She was also suspicious of the Mexican proposal, fearing that she would be deported if she applies for asylum in Mexico.
Mexican officials have greeted the caravan with a mixture of hospitality and hostility.
Several mayors have rolled out the welcome mat for migrants who reached their towns — arranging for food and camp sites. At other times, police have ejected migrants from passenger buses or prevented smaller groups from joining the caravan.
An official with the national immigrationauthority said Friday that 300 Hondurans and Guatemalans who crossed the Mexico border illegally had been detained. The group was walking in broad daylight, far from the main caravan.
The caravan still must travel 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) to reach the nearest U.S. border crossing at McAllen, Texas. The trip could be twice as long if the 4,000 or so migrants head for the Tijuana-San Diego frontier, as another caravan did earlier this year. Only about 200 in that group made it to the border.
This year's caravans have earned the ire of Trump. The Pentagon approved a request for additional troops at the southern border, likely to total several hundred, to help the U.S. Border Patrol as the president seeks to transform concerns about immigration and the caravan into electoral gains in the Nov. 6 midterms.
Stoking fears about the caravan and illegal immigration to rally his Republican base, Trump insinuated that gang members and "Middle Easterners" are mixed in with the group, though he later acknowledged there was no proof of that.
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Associated Press writers Julie Watson and Amy Guthrie contributed to this report.

 

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Trump will 'take action' to stop caravan of migrants, Pence says

• By TARA PALMERI

Oct 27, 2018, 11:07 AM ET

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WATCH Pence won't rule out closing down border ahead of midterms
As a caravan of migrants makes its way to the U.S.-Mexico border, Vice President Mike Pence would not rule out the option of closing down the border ahead of the midterm elections, he told ABC News in an exclusive interview.
When asked if President Trump is considering an executive order to stop allimmigration at the border, Pence said: "What we need to do is secure our border. The president will take steps to do that. But we also need to reform our laws."

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ABC News' Tara Palmeri speaks with Vice President Mike Pence in New Mexico, Oct. 26, 2018more +


(MORE: As migrant caravan heads toward US, Trump to order active duty troops to border in support role)

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Without going into details of potential options, Pence mentioned President Trump's latest measure -- sending U.S.military to the border.

(MORE: President Trump bears 'no' responsibility in pipe bomb scare: VP Pence to ABC News)

There are reports that the president is considering even more drastic measures, like blocking all central Americans migrants and asylum seekers from crossing the U.S. border. The New York Times reports that the President will announce his plans in a speech on Monday.

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Young migrants rest on pieces of carton boards in Arriaga, Mexico, Oct. 26, 2018.more +


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A senior White House official tells ABC News that Trump is exploring these options, among others.
When asked if the president will change the current asylum laws, Pence said, "The laws of the United States will be in effect, but honestly what we need to do is change the laws."

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ABC News' Tara Palmeri speaks with Vice President Mike Pence in New Mexico, Oct. 26, 2018more +

Immigration is a hot-button issue on the ballot ahead of the midterms. Pence is on a mid-Western swing in both New Mexico and Arizona, pushing for stronger border security.
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When asked if the president would take more action to close down the border before the midterms elections, Pence said: "The president is going to take action. We're not going to allow this caravan of thousands of people to come into our country illegally."
The caravan of approximately 6,000 central American migrants is currently about 1,000 miles from the U.S. border.

 

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Migrant caravan sets sight on getting to Mexico City
Associated Press • SONIA PEREZ D. and MARK STEVENSON • 38 minutes ago
CORDOBA, Mexico (AP) — Thousands of bone-tired Central Americans set their sights on Mexico City on Sunday after making a grueling journey through a part of Mexico that has been particularly treacherous for migrants seeking to get to the United States.
An estimated 4,000 migrants are in the Gulf state of Veracruz, where hundreds of migrants have disappeared in recent years, falling prey to kidnappers looking for ransom payments. The day's 124-mile (200-kilometer) trek was one of the longest yet, as the exhausted migrants tried to make progress walking and hitching rides toward the U.S. border still hundreds of miles away.

The migrants now aim to regroup in the Mexican capital, seeking medical care and rest while they await stragglers. The caravan has found strength in numbers as it meanders north, with townspeople pouring out to offer food, water, fresh clothes and replacement footwear.
In a thundering voice vote Sunday night, about 1,000 migrants at the gymnasium in Cordoba voted to try to make it to Mexico City on Monday, which would be their longest single-day journey yet since the caravan began — 178 miles (286 kilometers) by the shortest route.
Earlier Sunday, the bulk of the caravan streamed into the colonial city of Cordoba, in Veracruz's sugar belt, where they were greeted with Caribbean music and dance. Meanwhile, bleary eyed migrants who had charged ahead to Mexico City expressed gratitude for the support of their fellow travelers, saying they would not have had the strength or courage to get so far on their own.
A few arrived at a large outdoor stadium in the capital, where they lounged on bleachers and watched Mexicans play soccer. City employees piled hot food onto Styrofoam plates for the migrants, some of whom had hopped freight trucks to speed their arrival to the capital. Others rested inside a church in the city of Puebla.
It is unclear what part of the U.S. border the caravan will aim for eventually, or how many may splinter off on their own.
Most of the migrants said they remain convinced that traveling as a large mass is their best hope for reaching the U.S. The migrants generally say they are fleeing rampant poverty, gang violence and political instability primarily in the Central American countries of Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua.
"We think that it is better to continue together with the caravan. We are going to stay with it and respect the organizers," said Luis Euseda, a 32-year-old from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, traveling with his wife, Jessica Fugon. "Others went ahead, maybe they have no goal, but we do have a goal and it is to arrive."
Mynor Chavez, a 19-year-old from Copan, Honduras, was also determined to continue.
"I have no prospects (in Honduras). I graduated as a computer technician and not even with a degree have I been able to find work," he said of his home country.
Manuel Calderon, 43, a migrant from El Salvador, lifted his shirt to show scars from two bullets he said pierced his torso in his home country. He dreams of making it back to the U.S., from which he was deported a little more than two years ago.
On the road, Calderon was received by ordinary Mexicans lending a hand. Catalina Munoz said she bought tortillas on credit to assemble tacos of beans, cheese and rice when she heard the migrant caravan would pass through her tiny town of 3,000 inhabitants. She gathered 15 others to help make the tacos, fill water bottles and carry fruit to weary travelers on the roadside.
Mexico faces the unprecedented situation of having three migrant caravans stretched over 300 miles (500 kilometers) of highway in the states of Chiapas, Oaxaca and Veracruz.
On Friday, a caravan from El Salvador waded over the Suchiate River into Mexico, bringing around 1,000 people who want to reach the U.S. border. That caravan initially tried to cross the bridge between Guatemala and Mexico, but Mexican authorities told them they would have to show passports and visas and enter in groups of 50 for processing.
Another caravan, also of about 1,000 people, entered Mexico early last week. That group includes Hondurans, Salvadorans and some Guatemalans.
The first, and largest, group of mainly Honduran migrants entered Mexico on Oct. 19.
Mexican officials have appeared conflicted over whether to help or hinder their journey.
Mexico's Interior Ministry estimated Saturday that there are more than 5,000 migrants in total currently moving through southern Mexico via caravans or in smaller groups. The ministry says 2,793 migrants have pursued refugee status in Mexico in recent weeks and around 500 have asked for assistance to return to their countries of origin.
Uncertainty awaits migrants who reach the U.S.
President Donald Trump has ordered U.S. troops to the Mexican border in response to the caravans. More than 7,000 active duty troops have been told to deploy to Texas, Arizona and California ahead of the midterm elections.
He plans to sign an order that could lead to the large-scale detention of migrants crossing the southern border and bar anyone caught crossing illegally from claiming asylum.
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The New Orleans Saints seemed like they were in quicksand for most of an anxious second half. But, as he has done so many times, Drew Brees rescued them.
After seeing a 35-14 lead evaporate as the Los Angeles Rams made a charge, Brees led the Saints to a go-ahead field goal in the fourth quarter. Then, after a rare stop by either defense, Brees hit Michael Thomas for 72 yards on third-and-7 to put the Rams away (and to cue up Thomas’ epic Joe Horn cell-phone celebration). That put the Saints up 45-35, and that ended up being the final score of a great matchup.
The Rams came into the game 8-0, the last undefeated team in the NFL. They leave still leading the 7-1 Saints by a half-game in the NFC standings, but New Orleans has a leg up in the potential tiebreaker with the head-to-head win. Brees’ pass to Thomas to seal the win might be a big deal at the end of the season when the NFC playoffs are seeded.
Michael Thomas has a huge day
We’ve seen Brees come through in the clutch so often, that when he was facing third-and-7 with the possibility of giving the ball back to the red-hot Rams offense late in the fourth quarter, it was probably the exact spot he wanted to be in. He came through with a perfect pass to Thomas for the back-breaking score.
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WASHINGTON: Around 4,800 US soldiers were deployed on Monday (Nov 5) to the border with Mexico, the Pentagon announced, saying it could not give a price tag for the operation Democrats decry as political manoeuvring from President Donald Trump.
Some 1,100 of the troops are in California, another 1,100 in Arizona and 2,600 in Texas on the eve of crucial midterm elections that will determine whether Trump's Republicans keep their hold on power in Congress.

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"This continues to be a dynamic situation with more units and personnel deploying to the operating area and we expect to reach 5,200 deployed personnel as early as today," said Colonel Bob Manning, a Defence Department spokesman.
Manning said more than 7,000 active duty troops were expected to "soon" be supporting the Department of Homeland Security.
Some 2,100 National Guard reservists have already been active in the area for several months, so the arrival of the latest troops will bring the total US military presence to 9,000.
Operation Faithful Patriot aims to block the huge groups of Central American migrants marching on foot toward the United States, where they plan to demand asylum.

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Asked about the cost of the operation, Manning said it had yet to be determined by the Pentagon's financial services.
"The department will absorb the cost but I just don't have a number for you," he said.
Manning noted that DHS had requested that active duty troops, rather than reservists - who usually partake in operations on US soil - for this operation.
That's a sign that the White House was trying to circumvent the opposition of some governors, who need to approve the deployment of their state's National Guard troops.
"There is no plan for them to come in direct contact with migrants or protesters," Manning said.
Trump, who has warned of an "invasion" of the thousands of migrants now in Mexico, announced the military deployment last week, saying that up to 15,000 troops could serve in the operation.
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Thousands of mostly Honduran migrants travelling through Mexico gathered in the capital on Tuesday after a 1,000 mile (1,600 km) journey, with a handful saying President Donald Trump's hostility had deterred them from continuing to the United States.
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MEXICO CITY: Thousands of mostly Honduran migrants travelling through Mexico gathered in the capital on Tuesday after a 1,000 mile (1,600 km) journey, with a handful saying President Donald Trump's hostility had deterred them from continuing to the United States.
Officials estimated 4,500 migrants were camped in a Mexico City sports stadium, dirty and exhausted after a journey through the violence-plagued state of Veracruz this week.

While most in the caravan are still planning to reach the United States, several in the crowd told Reuters they were now considering alternative destinations.


The caravan has incurred Trump's wrath ahead of Tuesday's U.S. congressional elections. As they try to hang on to control of Congress, Republican candidates have been following Trump's lead and using rhetoric about immigrants as a tactic to motivate voters.
Trump has ordered 7,000 troops to the border, while a commercial approved by his campaign that linked the caravan to crime was pulled by U.S. networks on Monday.
"Mexico," said Franklin Martinez, 46, a maintenance man from Intibuca, Honduras, when asked about his final destination. "I'll stay here if they let me work."

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Like Martinez, five others at the stadium said they were now less sure about trying their luck in the United States.
"Canada," said two Hondurans, Marel Santos, 18, and Alexander Chavez, 19, of their intended destination, citing Trump's angry response to the caravan.
The pair, who met in the caravan, stood waiting for food in a line that snaked around the stadium. Bedraggled men, women and children had bedded down in the sports arena on Monday night, bundled in blankets or donated sweaters to face the mountain capital's chill.
While many at the stadium were unaware of the U.S. congressional elections and their unwitting role in some campaigning, news spread to others by word of mouth and reports seen on phones.
Martinez said he was rooting for a victory from the Democrats, who are seeking to wrest control of the House of Representatives and Senate from the Republicans.
"Here's hoping the Republicans lose," said Martinez, who said such a result could improve the political climate in the United States, and could convince him to restart his trek north.
"The Republicans are very anti-immigrant, the majority of them."
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Their arrival in the Mexican capital was a measure of the migrants' tenacity despite attempts by four governments - Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and the United States - to break them up.
Mexico City's human rights ombudsman said some 4,500 migrants had arrived at the stadium by Tuesday morning, although around 6,500 have left the caravan and returned home to Honduras, according to Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez.
To have made it to the capital was "a success," said Arnold Gomez, 30, a security guard from Honduras. "It's a city many of us hoped to see ... We feel good. Good, good."
Since it set off from one of the world's most violent cities, San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on Oct. 13, the caravan has met intermittent police resistance at the Honduran border with Guatemala, on a bridge connecting Guatemala to Mexico, and at the crossing point between the southern Mexican states of Chiapas and Oaxaca.
Over the weekend, an offer of transport from local authorities in the town of Sayula, Veracruz, was revoked at the last minute, leaving migrants forced to hitch-hike onward through drug-cartel territory, according to migrants and witnesses from nonprofit organizations that Reuters spoke to.
Some former members of the caravan said they were deported back to Honduras after it fragmented into smaller groups in southern Mexico.
"It's the end of my American dream," said Dimas Alexander, 33, a construction worker, speaking by telephone from his home in La Ceiba, Honduras.
He said Mexican immigration authorities had stopped him, along with about 150 others, on Saturday morning aboard two truck trailers headed to Mexico City.
Mexico's interior ministry denied the government was deporting caravan members. It said 478 of them had voluntarily agreed to return home.
(Reporting by Delphine Schrank, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)
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Donald Trump's administration has unveiled new rules to sharply limit migrant asylum claims by barring individuals who cross the US southern border illegally from seeking asylum.
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• Current US asylum rules don't bar people who enter the country without authorisation
• This move would largely affect migrants fleeing violence and poverty in Central America
• Immigration advocates are calling the rules an unlawful way to cut asylum claims overall

Immigrant advocates have denounced the move, saying it violated existing US law that allows people fleeing persecution and violence in their home countries to apply for asylum regardless of whether they enter illegally or not.
The regulations released, in conjunction with an order expected to be signed by President Donald Trump, would effectively ban migrants who cross the US border with Mexico illegally from qualifying for asylum.
Officials said once the plan came into full effect, migrants entering at the US southern border would only be eligible for asylum if they reported at official ports of entry.
One senior administration official spoke to reporters in a news briefing on condition of anonymity.
"What we are attempting to do is trying to funnel ... asylum claims through the ports of entry where we are better resourced, have better capabilities and better manpower and staffing to actually handle those claims in an expeditious and efficient manner," they said.
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The Trump administration has already made it more difficult for migrants to qualify for asylum in the United States.
Administration officials have said existing US asylum rules encouraged illegal immigration and bogged down legitimate claims.
The busy ports of entry already had long lines and waits, forcing immigration officials to tell some migrants to come back to make their claims.
Claims have spiked in recent years, and there is a backlog of more than 800,000 cases pending in immigration court.
Generally, only about 20 per cent of applicants are approved.
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In June, then-attorney general Jeff Sessions issued an appellate decision that sharply narrowed the circumstances under which immigrants could use violence at home as grounds for US asylum.
Mr Sessions, who resigned at Mr Trump's request this week, also instructed immigration judges and asylum officers to view illegal border-crossing as a "serious adverse factor" in deciding a case and to consider whether applicants could have escaped danger by relocating within their own countries.
Mr Trump made his hardline policies toward immigration a key issue ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections, sending thousands of US troops to help secure the southern border and repeatedly drawing attention to a caravan of Central American migrants trekking through Mexico toward the United States.
The President also suggested he would revoke the right to citizenship for babies born to non-US citizens on American soil and erect massive "tent cities" to detain migrants.
Those issues were not addressed by the regulations.
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Currently, US asylum rules do not bar people who enter the country without authorisation, and the Immigration and Nationality Act, which governs the US immigration system, specifically allows people who arrive in the United States, whether or not they do so at a designated port of entry, to apply for asylum.
The administration's plan, which invokes the same authority Mr Trump used to justify his travel ban on citizens of several Muslim-majority nations, is likely to be quickly challenged in court.
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The move would largely affect migrants from Central America's Northern Triangle — Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — who cross the US border with Mexico to flee violence and poverty in their home countries.
"The vast majority of aliens who enter illegally today come from the Northern Triangle countries," the regulation's text reads.
"Channelling those aliens to ports of entry would encourage these aliens to first avail themselves of offers of asylum from Mexico."
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The move was spurred in part by the caravan, but will apply to anyone caught crossing illegally, officials said.
Immigrant advocates denounced the administration's move as unlawful, and said the plan to funnel migrants to ports of entry was just a way to cut asylum claims overall.
"Congress has directly spoken to this question as to whether individuals can be rendered ineligible for asylum if they cross between ports of entry and has specifically said people are eligible regardless of where they cross," said Lee Gelernt, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union.
"Ports of entry ... are overcrowded," said Jonathan Ryan, executive director of Texas-based Refugees and Immigrant Centre for Education and Legal Services (RAICES).
"Asylum-seekers have been left to camp out for days and weeks on bridges at the border, when they should be guaranteed a right to enter the country for a fair hearing."
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Migrant caravan breakaway group reaches Mexican border city of Tijuana
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United States military forces have reinforced security measures at the country's southern border, laying barbed wire and erecting barricades as hundreds of Central American migrants planning to seek asylum in the country reached one of Mexico's northern-most cities.

Key points:

• About 400 migrants reach the border city of Tijuana, but thousands more are expected
• Customs and Border Protection closes lanes at two major border crossings into California
• Transgender asylum seeker says she would rather be detained in the US than sent home

About 400 migrants who broke away from the main caravan in Mexico City arrived in the border city of Tijuana by bus, according to a witness, but human rights organisations said larger groups were expected to arrive in the coming days.

US Secretary Of Defence Jim Mattis said he would travel to the border area on Wednesday (local time), which would be his first visit since the military announced that over 7,000 US troops would go to the area as the caravan of mostly Hondurans made its way through Mexico.

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a statement that it would close lanes at the San Ysidro and Otay Mesa crossings from Tijuana into California to allow the Department of Defence to install barbed wire and position barricades and fencing.

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Tijuana is at the westerly end of the border, about 38 kilometres from San Diego, California.

"CBP has been and will continue to prepare for the potential arrival of thousands of people migrating in a caravan heading toward the border of the United States," CBP's field operations director in San Diego, Pete Flores, said in a statement.

He cited a "potential safety and security risk".

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President Donald Trump has taken a firm stance against the caravan, which began its journey north on October 13 and briefly clashed with security forces in southern Mexico early on its route.

Mr Trump signed a decree that effectively suspended the granting of asylum for those who cross the border illegally, a move that could drastically slow claims at gates of entry.

But migrants planning to seek asylum in the United States said they were undeterred by the crackdown.

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"I prefer to be in detention in the United States than to return to my country, where I know they are going to kill me for being different," transgender woman Nelvin Mejía said after arriving in Tijuana with a group of about 70 people seeking asylum.

"Last month, they killed my partner, and I do not want to end up like that."​

For years, thousands of mainly Central American immigrants have embarked on long journeys through Central America and Mexico to reach the United States. Many of them die in the attempt or are kidnapped by organised crime groups.

Several thousand more migrants in at least three caravan groups are making their way through Mexico toward the border.

 

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TIJUANA, Mexico: The Central American migrant caravan faced a desperate situation on Friday (Nov 16) as its numbers swelled at the US-Mexican border, where it got a cold welcome and a warning that its chances of entering the United States were "almost nil."
After spending more than a month travelling the 4,300 kilometres (2,700 miles) to the Mexican border city of Tijuana, walking and hitch-hiking much of the way, thousands of migrants faced the bleak reality that their American dream was about as untouchable as it was when they started.

Osman Bueso, a 28-year-old Honduran man who was one of the first to reach the border, said he had no intention of waiting the months or years it could take to seek asylum in the US, and was ready to try to crash the border, as the migrants did when they entered Mexico from Guatemala on Oct 19.

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"That might be what ends up happening," he told AFP near the El Chaparral border crossing, where there is already a backlog of 1,400 people waiting to request asylum and cases are being processed at a rate of about 30 to 40 a day.
"All I went through to get here, I'm not going to let it be in vain. I've been on the road for 35 days to make it across this border ... We're not afraid. We're ready to die, whatever it takes. When you live in poverty and violence, it's better to die than to live."
Across the border, US President Donald Trump has deployed nearly 6,000 troops to deter what he has called an "invasion" by a group full of "thugs" and "hardened criminals."

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It has not stopped the migrants: more than 3,200 have now arrived in Tijuana, according to authorities, with some 2,000 more on the way - and that is only the first caravan.
In all, some 8,000 migrants are currently crossing Mexico in several caravans, according to the Mexican interior ministry.
'ENORMOUS RISK'
Interior Minister Alfonso Navarrete said Thursday that the migrants' chances of entering the United States were "almost nil."
The US is already saturated with asylum cases: requests increased by 2,000 per cent in the past five years, and there are currently 700,000 pending.
Adding to the caravan's woes, under an executive order Trump issued last week, migrants who do not cross at official border posts will no longer be allowed to request asylum, and face automatic deportation.
Even if they endure the long wait to cross at such posts, less than 10 per cent of asylum requests are granted, the US government says.
As the migrants face up to their bleak lack of options, "there's an enormous risk of an incident along the border - especially when we have heard the openly hostile rhetoric from the US government," warned Navarrete.
XENOPHOBIC PROTESTS
The caravan has also been met with protests by some Tijuana residents, and xenophobic comments from Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum, who said the "horde" of migrants had arrived "with an aggressive, obscene plan."
Gastelum, a member of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), called on the Mexican government to deport the migrants immediately.
"You're going to tell me we have to respect human rights. But human rights are for law-abiding humans," he said.
On Wednesday, hundreds of Tijuana residents protested at a park where the migrants had set up camp along the fence between Mexico and the United States.
Shouting anti-immigrant slogans, protesters threw stones at the migrants, even targeting children in some cases, as police looked on.
The city has however set up a shelter for the migrants in a sports complex, where more than 2,000 of them spent Thursday night.
The migrants are mostly fleeing poverty and unrest in Central America's "Northern Triangle" - El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, where brutal gang violence has fueled some of the highest murder rates in the world.
The main caravan began its journey on Oct 13 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
The migrants rushed the Mexico-Guatemala border six days later, clashing with riot police and then fording the river between the two countries when Mexican authorities refused to let them through as a group.
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Mattis told reporters Wednesday that Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general, was authorized to put out the memo because “he has the authority to do what the president tells him to do.”
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But Mattis stressed that if CBP personnel were at risk of being overwhelmed, he envisions unarmed U.S. military personnel providing crowd control with plastic shields and batons.

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Roughly 5,900 troops are currently in Texas, Arizona and California to support CBP ahead of the arrival of migrant caravans making their way through Mexico from Central America.

(MORE: Mattis defends military's border support mission while visiting troops in Texas)

Those troops have laid concertina wire and concrete jersey walls at ports of entry along the border.
"The president did see the need to back up the Border Patrol," said Mattis. "We received late last night an additional instruction authorizing implementation (of)additional measures. We're sizing up what those are."

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According to the White House memo issued Tuesday, military personnel on the border can protect federal personnel through "military protective activities that the Secretary of Defense determines are reasonably necessary to ensure the protection of Federal personnel."
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That includes "a show or use of force (including lethal force, where necessary), crowd control, temporary detention, and cursory search" The memo reaffirms that "Defense personnel shall not, without further direction from the President, conduct traditional civilian law enforcement activities, such as arrest, search, and seizure in connection with the enforcement of the laws."

(MORE: US military troops to be allowed to defend border patrol agents: Official)

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Mattis acknowledged to reporters that he now had the authority for lethal force to protect CBP personnel, but "there has been no call for any lethal force from DHS.
Asked by reporters what that protectionmight look like at ports of entry, Mattis replied "unarmed M.P.s with shields, batons, no firearms."
The majority of the 5,800 active duty troops along the border are unarmed. It is only military police units protecting those units that are armed.
The memo also allows for the "temporary detention" of migrants, but Mattis made clear that the military does not have "arrest authority" under the Posse Comitatus Act.
He said what he envisioned was temporarily holding migrants for "minutes" before being handed over to CPB to be arrested.
"If someone's beating on a Border Patrolman and if we were in position to have to do something about it, we could stop them from beating on them and take him over and deliver him to a Border Patrolman, who would then arrest him for it," said Mattis.
But the language used in the memo raised concerns in Congress that it edged close to the Posse Comitatus Act that prohibits active duty troops from carrying out law enforcement duties in the United States. Even from high-ranking Republican members of Congress like Rep. Mac Thornberry, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.

“Chairman Thornberry is eager to learn how this memo is consistent with the Posse Comitatus Act,” said a congressional staffer.
The defense secretary said that even though he has now been provided the new authority he would wait for further guidance from the Department of Homeland Security for future needs.

(MORE: Pentagon says troop deployment to border will cost $72 million through Dec. 15)

On Tuesday, the Pentagon announced that the cost of the border support mission would cost $72 million. Mattis described that figure as "an early estimated cost."
"I am confident that number will go up," he said.

 

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United States President Donald Trump has threatened to close the border with Mexico for an undisclosed period of time if his administration determines that its southern ally has lost "control" on its side.
Key points:

• Trump says the situation on the border is "really bad"
• The President said the military was authorised to use lethal force at Mexico border
• Mr Trump also issued an ultimatum about wall funding

Mr Trump is citing the situation involving migrants camped in Tijuana, Mexico, after traveling in a caravan to reach the United States.
The President said it was "a really bad situation" and that "if we find that it's incontrollable", then "we will close entry into the country for a period of time until we can get it under control. The whole border".
Mr Trump said he had given American troops at the border the "OK" to use lethal force against migrants "if they have to".
"I hope they don't have to," he said.
"I have no choice … you're dealing with rough people."
Mr Trump also warned there could be a Government shutdown next month if no more money was provided for a wall between the US and Mexico.
"Could there be a shutdown? There certainly could and it will be about border security, of which the wall is a part," Mr Trump told reporters in Palm Beach, Florida.
Ahead of US congressional elections earlier this month, Mr Trump denounced the approach of a caravan of migrants asan "invasion" that threatened American national security, and he sent thousands of US troops to the border to help secure it.
US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said on Wednesday that he had been granted authority to allow troops on the Mexican border greater powers to help protect border officials, and would await direction from the Department of Homeland Security.
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General Mattis said troops could help protect the border agents with shields and batons, but would be unarmed.
Two US officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said this week a memo signed by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly gave General Mattis the authority to protect immigration agents and if necessary, could include actions like use of lethal force, crowd control, temporary detention and cursory searches.
Having won control of the House in the elections, Democrats said they will be even less motivated than before to meet Mr Trump's demands for building the wall.
Mr Trump has issued ultimatums about wall funding before, with little impact, even with his own Republican Party in majority control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
If the two parties cannot reach a funding deal, there would be a partial Government shutdown, with so-called "essential services", including some at the Department of Homeland Security, likely remaining in operation.
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TIJUANA, Mexico: Tension mounted as hundreds of Central American migrants massed at a Mexican border town headed on Thursday (Nov 22) for a bridge crossing to the United States as President Donald Trump renewed his threats to repel them.
With US helicopters hovering overhead, a group made up mostly of men headed just after midday from the shelter they have been staying at since last week to the El Chaparral bridge around a kilometre away in Tijuana, just across the border from San Diego, California.

Trump on Thursday threatened to close the border altogether, having previously deployed nearly 6,000 troops to erect concrete barriers and razor-wire fences to deter what he has called an "invasion."

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"If we find that it gets to a level where we are going to lose control or where people are going to start getting hurt, we will close entry into the country for a period of time until we can get it under control," Trump told reporters, before firing a warning to Mexico.
"The whole border. I mean the whole border," he said, adding that "Mexico will not be able to sell their cars into the United States."
Tensions rose at the border when a local official and a human rights activist tried to convince the migrants both of the benefits of remaining in Mexico, and to submit their US asylum requests through official channels.

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"We don't want to!" shouted the migrants before continuing on to the bridge.
"Let us cross now, we're already desperate, we've left family in Honduras, we need to work," said a man called Wilson.
Authorities in Tijuana set up a job fair in an attempt to recruit skilled workers amongst the migrants for the benefit of local companies, while Mexico's migration agency has offered them temporary residency papers.
Some have taken advantage of the offers but others are simply determined to reach the US.
Since setting out more than a month ago, mostly from from Honduras, thousands of migrants - including many women and children - have covered about 4,400 kilometres, either walking or hitchhiking, before the first groups began reaching Tijuana at the end of last week.
But there have been tensions since they started arriving at the border town, particularly in the shelter housing around 4,500 Central Americans.
The migrants are mostly fleeing poverty and unrest in Central America's "Northern Triangle" - El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, where gang violence has fueled some of the highest murder rates in the world.
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[rushifa666]

Truml is such a dummy. Draft them and send them to war. Dknt have to sacrifice americans

 

[borom]

This will never happen here-we are already swarmed by immigrants and I hear tagalog, PRC Chinese and Indian more than locals in trains, buses and most public areas.,

 

[garlic]

Why dont the US donate usd1 bil a year to honduran poor just to stop this exodus?

Honduras got no oil?

 

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US President Donald Trump says asylum seekers have to wait in Mexico until claims approved, but Mexico denies making any deal
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Migrants have reached Tijuana and are stuck in limbo on the US-Mexico border.
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US President Donald Trump has said migrants at the US-Mexico border will stay in Mexico until their asylum claims are individually approved in US courts, but Mexico's incoming government has denied striking any deal.
Key points:

• Mr Trump says the US will close the border with Mexico if necessary
• But Mexico's incoming interior minister Olga Sanchez Cordero says no deal has been made with the US
• Ms Sanchez Cordero rules out Mexico becoming a "safe third country" for migrants

Their comments came on the back of a report in The Washington Post, which claimed Mexico and the US had agreed on a deal named Remain in Mexico.
The plan, according to the newspaper, foresees thousands of migrants staying in Mexico while their asylum claims in the United States are being processed.
This could potentially end a system Mr Trump has decried as "catch and release" that has, until now, often allowed those seeking refuge to wait on safer US soil.


But Mexico's incoming interior minister Olga Sanchez Cordero said there was "no agreement of any type between the future government of Mexico and the United States".
Ms Sanchez Cordero ruled out that Mexico would be declared a "safe third country" for asylum claimants.
PHOTO Thousands of migrants are in Tijuana, right on the Mexico-US border.
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If Mexico were to assume "safe third country" status, asylum seekers would be required to claim refugee status in Mexico rather than the United States, and activists have long argued Mexico does not have the security conditions to offer safe haven for Central American migrants fleeing poverty and violence.
Ms Sanchez Cordero, the top domestic policy official for president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador — who takes office on December 1 — said the incoming government was in talks with the United States.
But she said they could not make any agreement on the issue, since they are not yet in government.
Mr Trump is seeking to block thousands of Central Americans travelling in caravans from entering the United States, and has ordered that immigrants who enter the country illegally from Mexico are ineligible for asylum.
That order has been temporary suspended by a US judge.
During his Thanksgiving break, Mr Trump also threatened to close entry into the country from the southern border.
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Managing attorney for the Los Angeles office of legal rights organisation Human Rights First, Jenna Gilbert, said Mr Trump's new plan is "outright illegal, and I'm sure the administration will once more see itself in court".
The Washington Post article cited Mexican officials and senior members of Mr Lopez Obrador's transition team.
It said the deal would break with long-standing asylum rules and mount a new obstacle for Central American migrants attempting to seek refuge in the United States.
Mexico's incoming deputy interior minister, Zoe Robledo, said details of the Remain in Mexico scheme were still being worked out.
"What we're aiming for is that people leaving their countries due to security issues or violence can find a place to stay in Mexico, if that is their decision," Ms Robledo said.
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Ms Robledo said the incoming government wanted to find jobs for Central American migrants in sectors that are short-staffed, such as maquila assembly plants.
Mr Lopez Obrador has vowed to try to eliminate the causes of migration by creating more jobs and improving living conditions in Mexico and Central America.
In exchange, he hopes Mr Trump and the Canadian government will agree to help spur economic development in the region.
Outgoing President Enrique Pena Nieto has also sought to stem the flow of migrants north by offering jobs to them, and has received backing from the private sector in his efforts.
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The US has closed its busiest border crossing with Mexico after Mexican police broke up a protest of migrants in Tijuana, scattering demonstrators toward the border where US agents hurled tear gas canisters.
Key points:

• Pedestrian crossings along border suspended
• US agents fired tear gas and mobilised helicopters to keep migrants at bay
• On Sunday several hundred migrants pushed past blockade of Mexican police near crossing

Children were screaming and coughing in the mayhem on Sunday (local time).
Honduran migrant Ana Zuniga, 23, said she saw migrants open a small hole in concertina wire at a gap on the Mexican side of a levee, at which point US agents fired tear gas at them.
"We ran, but when you run the gas asphyxiates you more," she told the AP while cradling her three-year-old daughter Valery in her arms.
Mexico's Milenio TV also showed images of several migrants at the border trying to jump over the fence.
Metres away on the US side, shoppers streamed in and out of a shopping centre.
US Border Patrol helicopters flew overhead, while US agents held vigil on foot beyond the wire fence in California.
PHOTO US Border Patrol helicopters flew overhead as agents launched tear gas canisters at migrants.
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The Border Patrol office in San Diego said via Twitter that pedestrian crossings had been suspended at the San Ysidro port of entry at both the East and West facilities.
All northbound and southbound traffic was halted.
During the protest earlier on Sunday, the several hundred Central American migrants, who pushed past the blockade of Mexican police standing guard near the international border crossing, appeared to easily pass through without using violence.
Some of the migrants called on each other to remain peaceful.
PHOTO Over 5,000 migrants have been camped along the US-Mexico border in Tijuana, where many hope to apply for asylum in the US.
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The migrants, who were demonstrating to pressure the US to hear their asylum claims, carried hand-painted American and Honduran flags while chanting: "We are not criminals! We are international workers!"
A second line of Mexican police carrying plastic riot shields stood guard outside a Mexican customs and immigration plaza.
That line of police had installed tall steel panels behind them outside the Chaparral crossing on the Mexican side of the border.
Migrants were asked by police to turn back towards Mexico.
As it became clear they would not be given permission to cross the border, a small group of migrants broke off, heading a few hundred metres away to a part of a canal between Tijuana and San Diego that led to the border fence.
The move prompted US Customs and Border protest officers to launch tear gas canisters at the waiting migrants.
After running to relative safety a few hundred metres away, hundreds of the caravan members held a sit-in.
Later, the migrants again approached the border in groups and were met by a further volley of canisters emitting large clouds of gas.
PHOTO US Customs and Border protest officers launched the gas canisters after migrants reportedly failed to turn back towards Mexico.
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More than 5,000 migrants have been camped in and around a sports complex in Tijuana after making their way through Mexico in recent weeks via a caravan.
Many hope to apply for asylum in the US despite growing US measures to tighten the border.
Agents at the San Ysidro entry point are currently processing fewer than 100 asylum petitions a day.
Irineo Mujica, who has accompanied the migrants for weeks as part of the aid group Pueblo Sin Fronteras, said the aim of Sunday's march toward the US border was to make the migrants' plight more visible to the governments of Mexico and the US.
"We can't have all these people here," Mr Mujica said.
PHOTO Agents at the San Ysidro border are processing fewer than 100 asylum applications per day.
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Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum declared a humanitarian crisis in his border city of 1.6 million on Friday.
Mr Gastelum said the city was struggling to accommodate the crush of migrants.
In the wake of the tear gas incident, the Mexican Interior Ministry announced in a statement it planned to deport about 500 of the migrants who tried to "violently" and "illegally" cross the border on Sunday.
The statement explained Mexican authorities had contained the protest at the crossing between Tijuana and San Diego and that, despite heightened tensions there, Mexico would not send military forces to control 7,417 migrants from the caravan at the US-Mexico border.
The Interior Ministry added the country had sent 11,000 Central Americans back to their countries of origin since October 19.
It said 1,906 of the migrants were members of the recent caravans.
Mexico is on track to send a total of around 100,000 Central Americans back home by the end of this year.

Taking to Twitter on Sunday, US President Donald Trump expressed his displeasure with the migrant caravan in Mexico.
Moments after the border was closed, Mr Trump issued a self-congratulatory tweet, quoting Brigadier General Anthony Tata.

The President has deployed military forces to the border to support the Border Patrol and threatened to close the entire southern border on Sunday.
Mr Trump also tweeted on Saturday that migrants at the US-Mexico border would stay in Mexico until their asylum claims were individually approved in US courts, but Mexico's incoming government denied any such deal had been struck.
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