Approximately 300 men, women and children are sleeping outdoors in a makeshift camp between the primary and secondary border walls in San Ysidro. Volunteers from San Diego brought food, water and medicine to detained migrants.
Customs and Border Patrol personnel give the migrants water bottles, cheese and crackers. Everything else comes from volunteers in San Diego and Tijuana, according to several migrants interviewed by KPBS.
Jasso and other volunteers started visiting the camp last week. They have identified migrants from Cameroon, Morocco, Vietnam, China, Jamaica, Brazil, Peru and Afghanistan.“That is a fundamental, basic need,” she said. Migrants interviewed in the camp Tuesday told KPBS that they were not free to leave the camp whenever they wished. All of them had wristbands given to them by CBP personnel. Many of the people in the camp want to pursue asylum claims in the United States.
“I am excited to be here,” she said. “But also, very sad and tired. We have been on the road for two months and still haven’t reached our destination. But I trust in God.”
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Suspected DUI driver arrested after crash on Interstate 805 in San Ysidro kills manA 21-year-old Escondido man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of driving under the influence after crashing his car into an SUV, killing a person.
Read more »
Escondido man arrested on suspicion of DUI in fatal San Ysidro crashA 21-year-old Escondido man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of driving under the influence after crashing his car into an SUV, killing a person.
Read more »
Border Patrol set ‘bookout’ targets to bring migrant custody numbers to ‘manageable’ levels amid new surgeBorder Patrol leadership put into place targets for the number of migrants being released or transferred from custody due to a massive surge of migrants it has faced.
Read more »
‘Kalak’ Trailer: First Look At San Sebastian Competition Title From ‘Border’ Writer Isabella EklöfEXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first look at Totem Films’ San Sebastian competition title Kalak from Swedish filmmaker Isabella Eklöf. An autobiographical adaptation of Kim Leine’s novel of the same name,…
Read more »