Migrants reach US border, but a long wait lies ahead

IT IS DAWNING ON MANY THAT THE SHELTER COULD BE THEIR HOME FOR MONTHS

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After more than a month on the move, a caravan of migrants from Central America has come to a halt just a few metres from the border wall that divides Mexico and the United States.

The metal barrier looms near the sports centre where Tijuana’s city government has set up a shelter for the migrants, whose numbers are swelling as buses arrive almost daily.

On the other side — beyond floodlights, motion sensors, cameras and a second fence — lies their goal: the United States.

Shelter overwhelmed

Reuters A migrant climbs the border fence between Mexico and the United States in Tijuana, Mexico, on Sunday.

AP Anti-migrant protesters turn over a barrier wall protecting a migrant shelter during a demonstration in Tijuana, Mexico.