A backlog of children waiting to ask the U.S. for help has formed in Tijuana with many saying that they were turned away from ports of entry by U.S. and Mexican officials working together.
An unaccompanied minor from Honduras waits at a local migrant shelter, along with other minors who are waiting to present their case at the U.S. Port of Entry.
Because of the recent interventions from Mexican officials at the ports of entry in Tijuana, some children have ended up staying long term at shelters around Tijuana, particularly at Casa YMCA, which takes only unaccompanied children. Others ended up homeless in the city, Ramos said. The children and volunteers arrived at Chaparral, the port of entry on the Mexican side that corresponds to San Ysidro’s PedWest, a little before 7 p.m., Ramos said.
In the end, the volunteers took the children back to the shelter where they had been staying in Tijuana. When asked about incidents of children being turned away at the border, including the one in March, CBP pointed to the numbers of unaccompanied children the agency has processed over the past several months.
This week, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said that because of the numbers of families and unaccompanied children arriving, she would be diverting staff resources from other border security work to manage the arrivals. In a letter to Congress, she called on legislators to make it easier to deport unaccompanied children quickly.
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