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Geez! We have a enclave of dummies, right here in Portland!
I have taken the MarAzul to every City on the West Coast over the past year and half. Up every river navigable single handed. Went shopping with my hand bag for supplies in every city on foot. I would say it was mostly and enjoyable experience, and I like to think the many people I talk with took some joy too. I had no trouble anywhere, but one City that has been over run with immigrants, including (according to the police) MS13. No trouble with Black people, or Hispanic people anywhere but one city that is in a ardent sanctuary County. The schools are overwhelmed there and for some reason the police subdued.

You can find places like that in Oregon now too, not to this extreme, but it is near. Check out your school funding, check out the school populations in the belt around your metropolitan area.
Finding a way from Scappoose to get south has been some what of a challenge. Getting on I5 to go south is terrible, so I wind my way through the hills around the metro area. To Forest grove, Yamhill Gaston, Carlton, Newberg, then to Brooks and I5. Getting stuck behind a school bus out there is an eye opener. One old house on 47, 14 children got off. Wow! A half mile down the road, 8 more got off at an ancient farm house. Still a ton of kids on this bus, but I managed to pass soon there after.

Check out the State contribution per student in the districts in these areas. Especially @dviss1! I expected the state funding per immigrant child in Oregon, is perhaps 5 time as much per child in the districts with the most Black students.
 
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More than 650 illegal immigrants crossing southern border detained in Arizona over two days

By Lucia I. Suarez Sang | Fox News

As thousands of troops deployed to the southern border await the arrival of a caravan of migrants heading towards the U.S., border patrol agents in Arizona have already been busy, detaining more than 650 illegal immigrants in just two days this week.

Agents in the Yuma Sector said they detained 654 people – most reportedly being family units or unaccompanied minors from Guatemala - on Monday and Tuesday.

Officials said the groups of illegal immigrants are not believed to be associated with the large caravan of mostly Central American migrants that have prompted the military deployment.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday a group of 55 Central Americans waded across the Colorado River near Yuma and surrendered to agents after walking around vehicle barriers in the area.

Former border patrol agent Jason Piccolo reacts to the approaching migrant caravan.

“Larger numbers [of illegal immigrants] have started to illegally cross shallow portions of the Colorado River near Yuma,” a press release said.

Vinny Dulesky, the special operations supervisor for Yuma Sector public affairs, told Fox News on Thursday that the majority of the groups came in through the east side of the port of entry and had cut through their metal fences to cross in.

He said he did not know the extent of the damage to the fences, but expected fixing them could cost upwards of $1,600 for each one.

“It can get pricey,” Dulesky said.

CBP said apprehensions in the Yuma Sector are up more than 150 percent compared to the last fiscal year at this time. More than 3,600 people were apprehended in the month of October.

Dulseky said they are predominantly seeing family units and unaccompanied minors attempting to enter the U.S. and that the tactics of the illegal immigrants are changing.

“Instead of trying to avoid us, they are running to us, and claim asylum,” he said. “By doing that, it keeps them in the country longer.”

Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, told Fox News on Thursday that the numbers were “very concerning and startling,” but consistent with trends across the border.

“Yuma is seeing a huge spike and it’s a concern because they don’t have the facilities to process the cases,” she said, adding a majority of the people detained are released to local charities or even at bus stations because federal facilities are overwhelmed. “Most people apprehended and released are not staying in the area … they go join the illegal immigrant population.”

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol director Pete Flores on what systems are in place to prepare for incoming migrants.

According to CBP statistics, 60,745 people were apprehended or were deemed inadmissible while attempting to enter the U.S. illegally via the southern border in October, the first month of the fiscal year 2019 – compared to the 34,871 in the same month in fiscal year 2018.

A total of 521,090 people were apprehended at the southern border in fiscal year 2018 – up 125 percent from 451,514 in fiscal year 2017. Just in Yuma, more than 26,000 people were apprehended in fiscal year 2018.

Vaughan said the U.S. immigration system is not equipped to handle such an influx of people all at the same time, and drug cartels and smugglers have taken notice.

“They have identified a route that gets people in and they funnel through as many people,” she said. “They move as much product as possible.”
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I hope they threw them all in jail and took their children away, otherwise they'll send they're tired, they're poor, they're huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of our teeming shore.
 
SALT LAKE CITY — The statistics from the Drug Enforcement Agency are both staggering and frightening.

According to the 2018 National Drug Threat Assessment report released earlier this month, death by drug poisoning is the "leading cause of injury death in the United States," outnumbering deaths by firearms, motor vehicle crashes, suicide and homicide, and has been that way since 2011. The number of drug deaths in the U.S. is at an all-time high, and the opioid threat has "reached epidemic levels," the report's executive summary states.

In Utah, the problem is no different.

"Utahns have a voracious appetite for prescription pills. That is just a fact," Brian Besser, Drug Enforcement Administration assistant special agent in charge, said Thursday. "Drugs that come in a bottle are abused in Utah."

In addition to opioids, methamphetamine, heroin and even a resurgence in cocaine are problems in the Beehive State, he said.

"The methamphetamine epidemic in this state right now is only being eclipsed by the media that is given to the opioid epidemic," Besser said.

Utah is No. 1 in the nation in overdose deaths due to meth, he said.

On top of that, there is now also the problem of drug dealers lacing all of these drugs with fentanyl, he said. And in the schools, marijuana is "rampant."

The problem, Besser said, is "America has an insatiable appetite for drugs," and in Utah where there is wide-open land and rural roads, it's easy for drug dealers to move around.

But law enforcers in Utah are continuing to do their part to curb the amount of drugs being distributed in the state. On Thursday, U.S. Attorney for Utah John Huber held a press conference with several local, state and federal law enforcement partners by his side, highlighting several recent successes in taking down drug trafficking organizations.

In one case, seven people were charged in a 37-count indictment this week, accused of distributing drugs from St. George to Boise, Idaho, and "everything in-between," Huber said. He called them a "very sophisticated and profitable" group that, unlike other organizations that were busted, were all from Utah.

Related story:
Utah a growing market for cartels as law enforcement agencies work to curb drug traffic
A by-the-numbers approach helps the UHP's team of two full-time sergeants and 13 part-time interdiction troopers make anywhere from 200 to 250 seizures of illegal drugs per year.

Investigators seized 47 pounds of meth, 26 pounds of heroin, nearly $500,000 in cash and eight guns from the group. But Huber called it a "flash in the pan" compared to the total amount of drugs the group had been shipping. Law enforcers used wiretaps and other investigative tools to bring about charges.

In another case, a Mexican national living in Taylorsville was charged by a federal grand jury on Wednesday with distributing meth and heroin, according to court documents, 33 pounds of meth were seized in that case.

In a third case, 26 people connected to the same Honduran drug trafficking cells were charged with drug trafficking in six indictments. The charges followed a year-and-a-half long investigation, Huber said. Even though the people indicted are from Honduras, they were transporting drugs from Mexico into Utah, he said.

Fourteen of the 26 indicted have been arrested. Of those 14, Huber said 13 were previously deported, including one person who has been deported seven times.

Calling their crimes "outrageous criminal conduct" and stressing that many of those indicted had "no business being here," Huber said it was drug traffickers like these who exploit the weaknesses of Utahns and Americans.

"They take our cash, they exploit our addictions, and they fuel our crime," he said. "In Utah and in much of our nation, drug trafficking fuels our violent crime problems."

The Honduran group was responsible for trafficking mainly heroin and cocaine in Utah, according to investigators.

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If you say so dog. I expect it might provide an excuse for continuous faulty logic.
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Are you still whining about your crap posts being edited or deleted?
 
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Migrants get cool reception in Mexican border town
By JULIE WATSON | Associated Press

Residents stand on a hill before barriers, wrapped in concertina wire, separating Mexico and the United States, where the border meets the Pacific Ocean, in Tijuana, Mexico, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018. Many of the nearly 3,000 migrants have reached the border with California. The mayor has called the migrants' arrival an "avalanche" that the city is ill-prepared to handle. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

TIJUANA, Mexico – Many of the nearly 3,000 Central American migrants who have reached the Mexican border with California via caravan said Saturday they do not feel welcome in the city of Tijuana, where hundreds more migrants are headed after more than a month on the road.

The vast majority were camped at an outdoor sports complex, sleeping on a dirt baseball field and under bleachers with a view of the steel walls topped by barbed wire at the newly reinforced U.S.-Mexico border. The city opened the complex after other shelters were filled to capacity. Church groups provided portable showers, bathrooms and sinks. The federal government estimates the migrant crowd in Tijuana could soon swell to 10,000.

Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum has called the migrants' arrival an "avalanche" that the city is ill-prepared to handle, calculating that they will be in Tijuana for at least six months as they wait to file asylum claims.

While many in Tijuana are sympathetic to the migrants' plight and trying to assist, some locals have shouted insults, hurled rocks and even thrown punches at the migrants.

Alden Rivera, the Honduran ambassador in Mexico, visited the outdoor sports complex Saturday. Rivera expects the migrants will need to be sheltered for eight months or more, and said he is working with Mexico to get more funds to feed and care for them. He expects the migrant numbers in Tijuana to reach 3,400 over the weekend, with another 1,200 migrants having made it to Mexicali, another border city a few hours to the east of Tijuana. An additional 1,500 migrants plan to reach the U.S. border region next week.

Rivera said 1,800 Hondurans have returned to their country since the caravan first set out on Oct. 13, and that he hopes more will make that decision.

"We want them to return to Honduras," Rivera said, adding that each migrant must weigh whether to go home, appeal for asylum in Mexico or wait in line to apply for asylum in the U.S.

The Mexican Interior Ministry said Friday that 2,697 Central American migrants have requested asylum in Mexico under a program that the country launched on Oct. 26 to more quickly get them credentials needed to live, work and study in southern Mexico.

Ivis Muñoz, 26, has considered returning to Honduras. The coffee farmer called his father in Atima, Honduras, on Saturday to consult on his next move a few days after being attacked on a beach by locals in Tijuana. His father told him to stick it out.

Munoz was asleep on a beach in Tijuana with about two dozen other migrants when rocks came raining down on them around 2 a.m. Wednesday. He heard a man shout in the darkness: "We don't want you here! Go back to your country!" Munoz and the others got up and ran for cover, heading toward the residential streets nearby. As the sun rose, they hitched a ride on a passing truck to Tijuana's downtown. Now he is staying at the sports complex.

"I don't know what to do," said Munoz. He fears the U.S. won't grant him asylum, and that he'll get deported if he tries to cross into the country without authorization.

Carlos Padilla, 57, a migrant from Progreso, Honduras, said a Tijuana resident shouted "migrants are pigs" as he passed on the street recently. He did not respond. "We didn't come here to cause problems, we came here with love and with the intention to ask for asylum," Padilla said. "But they treat us like animals here."

Padilla said he will likely return to Honduras if the U.S. rejects his asylum request.

The migrants' expected long stay in Tijuana has raised concerns about the ability of the border city of more than 1.6 million to handle the influx.

Tijuana officials said they converted the municipal gymnasium and recreational complex into a shelter to keep migrants out of public spaces. The city's privately run shelters have a maximum capacity of 700. The municipal complex can hold up to 3,000; as of Friday night there were 2,397 migrants there.

Some business owners near the shelter complained on Saturday of migrants panhandling and stealing.

Francisco Lopez, 50, owns a furniture store nearby. He said a group of migrants took food from a small grocery a few doors down, and he worries that crime in the area will rise the longer the migrants stay at the shelter.

Trump, who sought to make the caravan a campaign issue in last week's elections, took to Twitter on Friday to aim new criticism at the migrants.

"Isn't it ironic that large Caravans of people are marching to our border wanting U.S.A. asylum because they are fearful of being in their country — yet they are proudly waving ... their country's flag. Can this be possible? Yes, because it is all a BIG CON, and the American taxpayer is paying for it," Trump said in a pair of tweets.

Associated Press writer Amy Guthrie in Mexico City contributed to this story.
 
MARIS61 said:
Migrants get cool reception in Mexican border town
By JULIE WATSON | Associated Press

Residents stand on a hill before barriers, wrapped in concertina wire, separating Mexico and the United States, where the border meets the Pacific Ocean, in Tijuana, Mexico, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018. Many of the nearly 3,000 migrants have reached the border with California. The mayor has called the migrants' arrival an "avalanche" that the city is ill-prepared to handle. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

TIJUANA, Mexico – Many of the nearly 3,000 Central American migrants who have reached the Mexican border with California via caravan said Saturday they do not feel welcome in the city of Tijuana, where hundreds more migrants are headed after more than a month on the road.

The vast majority were camped at an outdoor sports complex, sleeping on a dirt baseball field and under bleachers with a view of the steel walls topped by barbed wire at the newly reinforced U.S.-Mexico border. The city opened the complex after other shelters were filled to capacity. Church groups provided portable showers, bathrooms and sinks. The federal government estimates the migrant crowd in Tijuana could soon swell to 10,000.

Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum has called the migrants' arrival an "avalanche" that the city is ill-prepared to handle, calculating that they will be in Tijuana for at least six months as they wait to file asylum claims.

While many in Tijuana are sympathetic to the migrants' plight and trying to assist, some locals have shouted insults, hurled rocks and even thrown punches at the migrants.

Alden Rivera, the Honduran ambassador in Mexico, visited the outdoor sports complex Saturday. Rivera expects the migrants will need to be sheltered for eight months or more, and said he is working with Mexico to get more funds to feed and care for them. He expects the migrant numbers in Tijuana to reach 3,400 over the weekend, with another 1,200 migrants having made it to Mexicali, another border city a few hours to the east of Tijuana. An additional 1,500 migrants plan to reach the U.S. border region next week.

Rivera said 1,800 Hondurans have returned to their country since the caravan first set out on Oct. 13, and that he hopes more will make that decision.

"We want them to return to Honduras," Rivera said, adding that each migrant must weigh whether to go home, appeal for asylum in Mexico or wait in line to apply for asylum in the U.S.

The Mexican Interior Ministry said Friday that 2,697 Central American migrants have requested asylum in Mexico under a program that the country launched on Oct. 26 to more quickly get them credentials needed to live, work and study in southern Mexico.

Ivis Muñoz, 26, has considered returning to Honduras. The coffee farmer called his father in Atima, Honduras, on Saturday to consult on his next move a few days after being attacked on a beach by locals in Tijuana. His father told him to stick it out.

Munoz was asleep on a beach in Tijuana with about two dozen other migrants when rocks came raining down on them around 2 a.m. Wednesday. He heard a man shout in the darkness: "We don't want you here! Go back to your country!" Munoz and the others got up and ran for cover, heading toward the residential streets nearby. As the sun rose, they hitched a ride on a passing truck to Tijuana's downtown. Now he is staying at the sports complex.

"I don't know what to do," said Munoz. He fears the U.S. won't grant him asylum, and that he'll get deported if he tries to cross into the country without authorization.

Carlos Padilla, 57, a migrant from Progreso, Honduras, said a Tijuana resident shouted "migrants are pigs" as he passed on the street recently. He did not respond. "We didn't come here to cause problems, we came here with love and with the intention to ask for asylum," Padilla said. "But they treat us like animals here."

Padilla said he will likely return to Honduras if the U.S. rejects his asylum request.

The migrants' expected long stay in Tijuana has raised concerns about the ability of the border city of more than 1.6 million to handle the influx.

Tijuana officials said they converted the municipal gymnasium and recreational complex into a shelter to keep migrants out of public spaces. The city's privately run shelters have a maximum capacity of 700. The municipal complex can hold up to 3,000; as of Friday night there were 2,397 migrants there.

Some business owners near the shelter complained on Saturday of migrants panhandling and stealing.

Francisco Lopez, 50, owns a furniture store nearby. He said a group of migrants took food from a small grocery a few doors down, and he worries that crime in the area will rise the longer the migrants stay at the shelter.

Trump, who sought to make the caravan a campaign issue in last week's elections, took to Twitter on Friday to aim new criticism at the migrants.

"Isn't it ironic that large Caravans of people are marching to our border wanting U.S.A. asylum because they are fearful of being in their country — yet they are proudly waving ... their country's flag. Can this be possible? Yes, because it is all a BIG CON, and the American taxpayer is paying for it," Trump said in a pair of tweets.

Associated Press writer Amy Guthrie in Mexico City contributed to this story.
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Wow. What a bunch of racists
 
MARIS61 said:
SALT LAKE CITY — The statistics from the Drug Enforcement Agency are both staggering and frightening.

According to the 2018 National Drug Threat Assessment report released earlier this month, death by drug poisoning is the "leading cause of injury death in the United States," outnumbering deaths by firearms, motor vehicle crashes, suicide and homicide, and has been that way since 2011. The number of drug deaths in the U.S. is at an all-time high, and the opioid threat has "reached epidemic levels," the report's executive summary states.

In Utah, the problem is no different.

"Utahns have a voracious appetite for prescription pills. That is just a fact," Brian Besser, Drug Enforcement Administration assistant special agent in charge, said Thursday. "Drugs that come in a bottle are abused in Utah."

In addition to opioids, methamphetamine, heroin and even a resurgence in cocaine are problems in the Beehive State, he said.

"The methamphetamine epidemic in this state right now is only being eclipsed by the media that is given to the opioid epidemic," Besser said.

Utah is No. 1 in the nation in overdose deaths due to meth, he said.

On top of that, there is now also the problem of drug dealers lacing all of these drugs with fentanyl, he said. And in the schools, marijuana is "rampant."

The problem, Besser said, is "America has an insatiable appetite for drugs," and in Utah where there is wide-open land and rural roads, it's easy for drug dealers to move around.

But law enforcers in Utah are continuing to do their part to curb the amount of drugs being distributed in the state. On Thursday, U.S. Attorney for Utah John Huber held a press conference with several local, state and federal law enforcement partners by his side, highlighting several recent successes in taking down drug trafficking organizations.

In one case, seven people were charged in a 37-count indictment this week, accused of distributing drugs from St. George to Boise, Idaho, and "everything in-between," Huber said. He called them a "very sophisticated and profitable" group that, unlike other organizations that were busted, were all from Utah.

Related story:
Utah a growing market for cartels as law enforcement agencies work to curb drug traffic
A by-the-numbers approach helps the UHP's team of two full-time sergeants and 13 part-time interdiction troopers make anywhere from 200 to 250 seizures of illegal drugs per year.

Investigators seized 47 pounds of meth, 26 pounds of heroin, nearly $500,000 in cash and eight guns from the group. But Huber called it a "flash in the pan" compared to the total amount of drugs the group had been shipping. Law enforcers used wiretaps and other investigative tools to bring about charges.

In another case, a Mexican national living in Taylorsville was charged by a federal grand jury on Wednesday with distributing meth and heroin, according to court documents, 33 pounds of meth were seized in that case.

In a third case, 26 people connected to the same Honduran drug trafficking cells were charged with drug trafficking in six indictments. The charges followed a year-and-a-half long investigation, Huber said. Even though the people indicted are from Honduras, they were transporting drugs from Mexico into Utah, he said.

Fourteen of the 26 indicted have been arrested. Of those 14, Huber said 13 were previously deported, including one person who has been deported seven times.

Calling their crimes "outrageous criminal conduct" and stressing that many of those indicted had "no business being here," Huber said it was drug traffickers like these who exploit the weaknesses of Utahns and Americans.

"They take our cash, they exploit our addictions, and they fuel our crime," he said. "In Utah and in much of our nation, drug trafficking fuels our violent crime problems."

The Honduran group was responsible for trafficking mainly heroin and cocaine in Utah, according to investigators.

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Didn't your president promise to clean that up? 2 years and it's still bad. WTF is the pumpkin doing?
 
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Didn't your president promise to clean that up? 2 years and it's still bad. WTF is the pumpkin doing?
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Rotting from the inside, like all pumpkins in November.

barfo
 
Seems fitting:

Ring me, ring me ring me
Up the President
And find out
Where my baby went
Ring me, ring me, ring me
Up the FBI
And find out if
My baby's alive
Yeah, yeah, yeah

The KKK took my baby away
They took her away
Away from me
The KKK took my baby away
They took her away
Away from me

barfo
 
MARIS61 said:
I'm aware Kamala Harris is spreading the lie that it exists.

She's a disgusting person, no way around it.
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Of course she is, she's from California. A lot of highly educated people in California. Very disgusting.
 
MARIS61 said:
I'm aware Kamala Harris is spreading the lie that it exists.

She's a disgusting person, no way around it.
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spreading what lie?
 
Tijuana protesters chant 'Out!' at migrants camped in city
By AMY GUTHRIE | Associated Press
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    Demonstrators stand under an indigenous statue of Aztec ruler Cuauhtemoc as they protest the presence of thousands of Central American migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2018. Protesters accused the migrants of being messy, ungrateful and a danger to Tijuana; complained about how the caravan forced its way into Mexico, calling it an "invasion," and voiced worries that their taxes might be spent to care for the group as they wait possibly months to apply for U.S. asylum. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
TIJUANA, Mexico – Hundreds of Tijuana residents congregated around a monument in an affluent section of the city south of California on Sunday to protest the thousands of Central American migrants who have arrived via caravan in hopes of a new life in the U.S.

Tensions have built as nearly 3,000 migrants from the caravan poured into Tijuana in recent days after more than a month on the road, and with many more months ahead of them while they seek asylum. The federal government estimates the number of migrants could soon swell to 10,000.

U.S. border inspectors are processing only about 100 asylum claims a day at Tijuana's main crossing to San Diego. Asylum seekers register their names in a tattered notebook managed by migrants themselves that had more than 3,000 names even before the caravan arrived.

On Sunday, displeased Tijuana residents waved Mexican flags, sang the Mexican national anthem and chanted "Out! Out!" in front of a statue of the Aztec ruler Cuauhtemoc, 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) from the U.S. border. They accused the migrants of being messy, ungrateful and a danger to Tijuana. They also complained about how the caravan forced its way into Mexico, calling it an "invasion." And they voiced worries that their taxes might be spent to care for the group.

"We don't want them in Tijuana," protesters shouted.

A woman who gave her name as Paloma lambasted the migrants, who she said came to Mexico in search of handouts. "Let their government take care of them," she told video reporters covering the protest.

Most of the migrants who have reached Tijuana via caravan in recent days set out more than a month ago from Honduras, a country of 9 million people. Dozens of migrants in the caravan who have been interviewed by Associated Press reporters have said they left their country after death threats.

But the journey has been hard, and many have turned around.

Alden Rivera, the Honduran ambassador in Mexico, told the AP on Saturday that 1,800 Hondurans have returned to their country since the caravan first set out on Oct. 13, and that he hopes more will make that decision. "We want them to return to Honduras," said Rivera.

Honduras has a murder rate of 43 per 100,000 residents, similar to U.S. cities like New Orleans and Detroit. In addition to violence, migrants in the caravan have mentioned poor economic prospects as a motivator for their departures. Per capita income hovers around $120 a month in Honduras, where the World Bank says two out of three people live in poverty.

The migrants' expected long stay in Tijuana has raised concerns about the ability of the border city of more than 1.6 million people to handle the influx.

While many in Tijuana are sympathetic to the migrants' plight and trying to assist, some locals have shouted insults, hurled rocks and even thrown punches at them. The cold reception contrasts sharply with the warmth that accompanied the migrants in southern Mexico, where residents of small towns greeted them with hot food, campsites and even live music.

Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum has called the migrants' arrival an "avalanche" that the city is ill-prepared to handle, calculating that they will be in Tijuana for at least six months as they wait to file asylum claims. Gastelum has appealed to the federal government for more assistance to cope with the influx.

Mexico's Interior Ministry said Saturday that the federal government was flying in food and blankets for the migrants in Tijuana.

Tijuana officials converted a municipal gymnasium and recreational complex into a shelter to keep migrants out of public spaces. The city's privately run shelters have a maximum capacity of 700. The municipal complex can hold up to 3,000.

Some from the caravan have diverted to other border cities, such as Mexicali, a few hours to the east of Tijuana.

U.S. President Donald Trump, who sought to make the caravan a campaign issue in the midterm elections, used Twitter on Sunday to voice support for the mayor of Tijuana and try to discourage the migrants from seeking entry to the U.S.

Trump wrote that like Tijuana, "the U.S. is ill-prepared for this invasion, and will not stand for it. They are causing crime and big problems in Mexico. Go home!"

He followed that tweet by writing: "Catch and Release is an obsolete term. It is now Catch and Detain. Illegal Immigrants trying to come into the U.S.A., often proudly flying the flag of their nation as they ask for U.S. Asylum, will be detained or turned away."

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Associated Press writer Julie Watson contributed to this story from Tijuana.
 
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Tijuana protesters chant 'Out!' at migrants camped in city
By AMY GUTHRIE | Associated Press
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    Demonstrators stand under an indigenous statue of Aztec ruler Cuauhtemoc as they protest the presence of thousands of Central American migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2018. Protesters accused the migrants of being messy, ungrateful and a danger to Tijuana; complained about how the caravan forced its way into Mexico, calling it an "invasion," and voiced worries that their taxes might be spent to care for the group as they wait possibly months to apply for U.S. asylum. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
TIJUANA, Mexico – Hundreds of Tijuana residents congregated around a monument in an affluent section of the city south of California on Sunday to protest the thousands of Central American migrants who have arrived via caravan in hopes of a new life in the U.S.

Tensions have built as nearly 3,000 migrants from the caravan poured into Tijuana in recent days after more than a month on the road, and with many more months ahead of them while they seek asylum. The federal government estimates the number of migrants could soon swell to 10,000.

U.S. border inspectors are processing only about 100 asylum claims a day at Tijuana's main crossing to San Diego. Asylum seekers register their names in a tattered notebook managed by migrants themselves that had more than 3,000 names even before the caravan arrived.

On Sunday, displeased Tijuana residents waved Mexican flags, sang the Mexican national anthem and chanted "Out! Out!" in front of a statue of the Aztec ruler Cuauhtemoc, 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) from the U.S. border. They accused the migrants of being messy, ungrateful and a danger to Tijuana. They also complained about how the caravan forced its way into Mexico, calling it an "invasion." And they voiced worries that their taxes might be spent to care for the group.

"We don't want them in Tijuana," protesters shouted.

A woman who gave her name as Paloma lambasted the migrants, who she said came to Mexico in search of handouts. "Let their government take care of them," she told video reporters covering the protest.

Most of the migrants who have reached Tijuana via caravan in recent days set out more than a month ago from Honduras, a country of 9 million people. Dozens of migrants in the caravan who have been interviewed by Associated Press reporters have said they left their country after death threats.

But the journey has been hard, and many have turned around.

Alden Rivera, the Honduran ambassador in Mexico, told the AP on Saturday that 1,800 Hondurans have returned to their country since the caravan first set out on Oct. 13, and that he hopes more will make that decision. "We want them to return to Honduras," said Rivera.

Honduras has a murder rate of 43 per 100,000 residents, similar to U.S. cities like New Orleans and Detroit. In addition to violence, migrants in the caravan have mentioned poor economic prospects as a motivator for their departures. Per capita income hovers around $120 a month in Honduras, where the World Bank says two out of three people live in poverty.

The migrants' expected long stay in Tijuana has raised concerns about the ability of the border city of more than 1.6 million people to handle the influx.

While many in Tijuana are sympathetic to the migrants' plight and trying to assist, some locals have shouted insults, hurled rocks and even thrown punches at them. The cold reception contrasts sharply with the warmth that accompanied the migrants in southern Mexico, where residents of small towns greeted them with hot food, campsites and even live music.

Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum has called the migrants' arrival an "avalanche" that the city is ill-prepared to handle, calculating that they will be in Tijuana for at least six months as they wait to file asylum claims. Gastelum has appealed to the federal government for more assistance to cope with the influx.

Mexico's Interior Ministry said Saturday that the federal government was flying in food and blankets for the migrants in Tijuana.

Tijuana officials converted a municipal gymnasium and recreational complex into a shelter to keep migrants out of public spaces. The city's privately run shelters have a maximum capacity of 700. The municipal complex can hold up to 3,000.

Some from the caravan have diverted to other border cities, such as Mexicali, a few hours to the east of Tijuana.

U.S. President Donald Trump, who sought to make the caravan a campaign issue in the midterm elections, used Twitter on Sunday to voice support for the mayor of Tijuana and try to discourage the migrants from seeking entry to the U.S.

Trump wrote that like Tijuana, "the U.S. is ill-prepared for this invasion, and will not stand for it. They are causing crime and big problems in Mexico. Go home!"

He followed that tweet by writing: "Catch and Release is an obsolete term. It is now Catch and Detain. Illegal Immigrants trying to come into the U.S.A., often proudly flying the flag of their nation as they ask for U.S. Asylum, will be detained or turned away."

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Associated Press writer Julie Watson contributed to this story from Tijuana.
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Tijuana is not the same city you used to party in back in the 60s.
 
There was a nice looking focus svt for sale really cheap in Tijuana early this year.

If a caravan member would bring it to me I would sponsor them....
 
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