Migrants get cool reception Trump tours Paradise in Mexican border town
TIJUANA, MEXICO >> Many of the nearly 3,000 Central American migrants By Jonathan who Lemire have reached the Mexican border with California via caravan said From Saturday the ashes they of do a PARADISE >> not mobile feel welcome home and in RV the park, city of President Tijuana, Donald where hundreds Trump said more Saturday migrants he are came headed to the after heart more of than California’s a month on killer the road. wildfire to fully grasp The vast the scale majority of the were desolation camped at wrought an outdoor on the sports landscape. complex, sleeping “We’re on going a dirt to baseball have to work field and quickly under . ... Hopefully bleachers with this is a going view of to the be the steel last walls of these topped because by barbed this wire was a at really, the newly really reinforced bad one,” U.S.Mexico said the president, border. The standing city opened amid the the complex crumpled after foundations other shelters of homes were filled and twisted to capacity. steel Church of melted groups cars. provided “I think portable everybody’s showers, seen bathrooms the light and and I sinks. don’t The think federal we’ll have government this again estimates to this extent,” the migrant Trump crowd said in in Paradise, Tijuana could the town soon largely swell to destroyed 10,000. by a wildfire ignited Nov. Tijuana 8 that Mayor he called Juan “this Manuel monster.” Gastelum has called the migrants’ arrival With an that “avalanche” bold and that perhaps the city unlikely is ill-prepared prediction, to handle, Trump calculating pledged that that improved they will be forest in Tijuana management for at least practices six months will as diminish they wait future to file asylum risks. The claims. declaration U.S. border evoked 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 his initial by tweeted migrants reaction themselves to the that fire, had the worst more than in the 3,000 state’s names history, even before in which the he caravan seemed arrived. to blame local While officials many and in Tijuana threatened are sympathetic to take away to federal the migrants’ funding. plight and When trying asked to assist, if seeing some the locals historic have shouted devastation, insults, which hurled stretched rocks and for miles even and thrown left neighborhoods punches at the migrants. destroyed and fields scorched, altered It’s a stark his opinion contrast to on the climate many Mexican change, Trump communities answered, that “No.” welcomed The president the caravan has with long voiced signs, music skepticism and about donations man’s of impact clothing on after the climate it entered and Mexico has been nearly reluctant a month to ago. assign Countless blame residents to a warming of rural earth areas for pressed the increase fruit and in bags the of frequency water into and the intensity migrants’ of hands natural as they disasters. passed through southern Mexico, At least wishing 71 people them died safe across journeys. Northern California, and authorities Alden are Rivera, trying to the locate Honduran more ambassador than 1,000 people, in Mexico, though visited not all the are outdoor believed sports missing. complex More Saturday. than 5,500 Rivera fire personnel expects the were migrants battling will the blaze need that to be covered sheltered 228 for square eight months miles and or was more, about and 50 said percent he is working contained, with officials Mexico said. to get more funds For to Trump, feed and it care was for a day them. to He comfort expects a the state migrant grieving numbers from 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 twin 1,500 tragedies, migrants plan wildfires to reach in both the Northern U.S. border and region Southern next week. California Rivera as well said as a 1,800 mass shooting Hondurans at a have popular returned college to bar. their country since Wearing the caravan a camouflage first set out “USA” on hat, Oct. Trump 13, and gazed that solemnly he hopes at more the devastation will make that in decision. Paradise.
Several “We want burned-out them to buses return and to cars Honduras,” were nearby. Rivera said, Trees adding were burned, that each their migrant branches must bare weigh and twisted. whether Homes to go home, were totally appeal gone; for some asylum foundations in Mexico or remained, wait in line as did to apply a chimney for asylum and, in in the front U.S. of one The house, Mexican a Mickey Interior Mouse Ministry lawn ornament. said Friday The that fire was 2,697 reported Central to American have moved migrants through have requested the area at asylum 80 mph. in Mexico under a program that “It’s the going country to launched work out on well, Oct. but 26 to right more now quickly we want get them to take credentials of the people needed that to live, are work so badly and hurt,” study in Trump southern said Mexico. visiting what remained Ivis Muñoz, of the 26, Skyway has considered Villa Mobile returning Home to and Honduras. RV Park. The He noted coffee “there farmer are called areas his you father can’t in even Atima, get to Honduras, them yet” on and Saturday the sheer to consult number on his of people next move unaccounted a few days for. after being “I think attacked people on have a beach to see by this locals really in Tijuana. to understand His father it,” told Trump him said. to stick it out.
Munoz has a bullet in his leg. A gang member shot him a year ago in Honduras and threatened to kill him if he sees him again. Munoz said he found out later his girlfriend The had president been cheating later toured on him an operation with the gang centers, member. met with response He’s commanders afraid to go home, and praised but he the feels work unwelcome of firefighters, in Tijuana. law enforcement Munoz was and representatives asleep on a beach of the in Tijuana Federal with Emergency about two Management dozen other Agency. migrants when rocks came raining “We’ve down never on seen them anything around 2 like a.m. this Wednesday. in California,” He heard he a said. man “It’s shout total in the devastation.” darkness: “We don’t want Trump you took here! a Go helicopter back to tour your en country!” route Munoz to Chico and before the others he toured got up and Paradise. ran for A cover, full cover heading of haze toward and the the residential smell of smoke streets greeted nearby. the As president the sun upon rose, his they arrival hitched at Beale a ride Air on Force a passing Base truck near Sacramento. to Tijuana’s downtown. Now he is staying “They’re at the out sports there fighting complex. and they’re “I don’t fighting know like what hell,” to do,” Trump said said Munoz. of the He first fears responders. the U.S. won’t grant He pledged him asylum, that and Washington that he’ll would get deported do its part if he by tries coming to cross to the into Golden the country State’s without aid and authorization. urged the House’s Republican leader, Rep. Carlos Kevin Padilla, McCarthy 57, of a migrant California, from a Progreso, Trump ally Honduras, and frequent said White a Tijuana House resident visitor, shouted to “come “migrants to the office” are pigs” to help as he secure passed the on needed the street funding. recently. He did not respond.