About a dozen border security activists held a press conference in the San Ysidro Port of Entry Friday urging elected officials to avoid a government shutdown by approving $5 billion for a border wall.
Since migrating to Tijuana in 2011, Chef Lilian Mejía's restaurant Honduras 504 has become a touchstone and safe place for Tijuana's growing Honduran community and has expanded the city's culinary offerings along the way.
U.S. gov t this week to begin reuniting migrant families separated at border
By
Don Johnson
Separated migrant families embrace in the Rio Grande between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, on October 26, 2019. File Photo by Justin Hamel/UPI | License Photo
Activists rally durng a Families Belong Together march in Los Angeles, Calif., on July 21, 2018, to protest the Trump administration s family separations policies at the southern border. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
A family separated by border fence speaks to one another along the U.S.-Mexico border in Calexico, Calif., on April 4, 2019. File Photo by Ariana Drehsler/UPI | License Photo
First Family from Most Recent Migrant Caravan Has Reached San Diego
By Manuel Ocaño
As the most recent migrant caravan is just getting to Mexico City, one of the families among them rushed ahead for humanitarian reasons and has now crossed into San Diego seeking asylum.
The family explained to La Prensa San Diego that, towards the end of 2018, they decided to risk trying to get to the United States to get urgent care for their youngest son, who has hydrocephalus – a condition that causes fluid buildup in the brain – and for whom Honduran doctors had said there was nothing more they could do.
Migrants Still Waiting to Cross Border
By Marielena Castellanos
On a cold afternoon under a cloudy sky outside el Barretal, the main migrant shelter in southeastern Tijuana, an older couple, Rosalba and her husband Walter (who requested his name be changed) stand together watching a group of migrants pick out donated clothes from a dark grey truck with California plates.
Rosalba, with dark circles under her eyes and a solemn tone of voice, sounds as if she is speaking of someone else when she explains why she and her husband joined the caravan “So many things that happen to us in life, maybe one thinks about improving them, but at the end of it all, I don’t know what the final result will be.”