In spite of warnings, migrants keep showing up at border campsite in Tijuana
In spite of warnings, migrants keep showing up at border campsite in Tijuana
Posted: Feb 26, 2021 / 07:19 PM GMT-0600 / Updated: Feb 26, 2021 / 07:31 PM GMT-0600
Two unidentified young girls are part of a group numbering 300 who are residing on a makeshift campsite just south of the San Ysidro Port of Entry. (Jorge Nieto/Special to Border Report)
TIJUANA (Border Report) The number of asylum-seekers and migrants at an impromptu campsite just south of the San Ysidro Port of Entry is now an estimated 300 people.
Folks began camping out late last week in anticipation of asylum-seekers finally being allowed to enter the United States back on Feb. 19.
Mexican president to visit border city, discuss security
Mexican president to visit border city, discuss security
Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. (Getty Images)
TIJUANA (Border Report) Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will visit Tijuana on Saturday to discuss security in this corner of Mexico where more than 2,000 murders were recorded last year.
López Obrador, referred to by many in Mexico as AMLO, will also cut the ribbon and inaugurate a National Guard armory in Tijuana.
“He has been touring cities with security problems, aside from that, there will be intense meetings on other subjects,” said Alejandro Ruíz Uribe, a federal delegate from Baja California.
Asylum-seekers waiting in Mexico must complete several steps for chance to enter U.S.
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) After two years of waiting and living in Tijuana, Nery Maribel Cabrera thought Friday was finally the day she was going to be able to cross into the United States to begin her asylum case north of the border.
“The truth is I’m really happy about finally getting to see my sisters,” she said.
Cabrera would not specify where her sisters live in the United States but said it has been “a long time since she’s seen them.”
Unfortunately, Cabrera’s plans might have to wait beyond Friday.
President Trump extends national emergency declaration at U.S.-Mexico border
Posted: Jan 18, 2021 / 11:27 AM GMT-0600 / Updated: Jan 18, 2021 / 11:30 AM GMT-0600
US President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up after touring a section of the border wall in Alamo, Texas on January 12, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON (BorderReport) President Donald Trump extended a proclamation declaring an emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border for another year.
On Friday, he said he would continue the national emergency designation until Feb. 15, 2022.
He initially put one in place through Proclamation 9844 on Feb. 15, 2019 “to deal with the border security and humanitarian crisis” there.
Mexicans in the U.S. sent record amounts of money back home despite COVID-19 pandemic
Posted: Jan 15, 2021 / 05:33 PM GMT-0600 / Updated: Jan 15, 2021 / 05:35 PM GMT-0600
A woman leaves a store offering services to send remittances to Mexico and Central America, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, in San Diego.
Mexican workers have confounded economists by sending home huge amounts of money during the coronavirus pandemic. Experts had predicted that migrant workers would wire less money, known as remittances, as the American economy took a dive.
(AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
El PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Mexican workers abroad sent a record $36.9 billion to their homeland in the first 11 months of 2020, and some of that went to families in Tijuana, Juarez and other cities bordering the U.S.