Thousands of migrants are stranded in the Mexican border city of Tijuana. Where xenophobia is the rule of law. The upcoming change of government in Mexico, and an offer of Canada could to defuse the Situation.
Less than a month, the train has used the Central American migrants to Mexico from the South cross to the North. Since the weekend a vanguard of the nearly 2,500 people camping in a sports hall in the border city of Tijuana. Their choice had fallen, in spite of the significantly longer route to Tijuana, because the Route is considered to be safer than the drug cartels controlled route to Matamoros on the Gulf of Mexico. In addition, the NGO Pueblos Sin Fronteras, With-the organizer of the caravan, based in California, and hopes of the local authorities to be more tolerant in the case of the asylum applications than in the ultra-conservative Texas. But just in Tijuana, where the US border guards in the past few days, fence and double the border with barbed wire, the train initially Stalled. The caravan is threatening to stay in the California desert – and this has mainly political reasons.
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Tijuana: tension on the border to the United States is growing
The impressive size of the caravan and the media echo, which you had, are a two-edged sword: they provide protection against Attacks and a certain amount of infrastructure on the go. They also offer political attack surface – for example, for U.S. President Donald Trump, the tweets continue to be angry and the border on Monday had several hours of close, in order to strengthen the fortifications – which aroused the displeasure of thousands of commuters. The mayor of Tijuana, the conservative Juan Manuel Gastélum, Trump a role model: “I do not dare to call them migrants. This is not use a bunch of lazy and drug users, which disturb our peace,” he says.
Politicians fuelling xenophobia
In a city that thrives on the cross-border trade, and in the half of the two million inhabitants who have immigrated to are, the a bit strange – especially since Tijuana is anything other than “quiet”, as columnist Carlos points out Puig. “Gastélum, the number of murders has risen sharply. In Tijuana daily killed seven people, and the shameless mayor sees the peace and safety of the migrants are threatened,” writes Puig in the newspaper “Milenio”.
Barbed wire in the river bed: The USA are building the border fortifications in Tijuana
Nevertheless, the solidarity of the Mexican open hostility, made in Tijuana, first place; twice it came up in the last days of smaller demonstrations against the migrants. “In the Tijuana migrant groups to come in all the time. But the size of this caravan awakens threat fears”, says the sociologist José Moreno Mena the Portal Frontera.
In the next few days, up to 3000 more migrants are expected to have a potentially explosive Cocktail. Because the capacity in the border town were already exhausted before the arrival of the caravan almost. A day stranded there hundreds of Central Americans on the way in the USA as well as from the USA deported Mexicans. In the city there are spending a couple of volunteers organized Food, so-called “Comedores”, and about a thousand temporary beds in Church migrants accommodation. However, you are only a booty call. On the streets in the centre, hundreds try every day to survive with mini-jobs – from selling sweets, Cleaning windscreens or load drag on the market.
Protests in Tijuana against the migrants from Central America
Hope on Canada
The least create it legally in the USA. Daily, the US border authorities accept between 30 and 50 asylum applications, the waiting list is long. The opportunities for the immigrants are bad, admits pastor Alejandro Solalinde, Director of a migrant hostel and coordinator of the Pastoral of human mobility. “Actually, there are only two options. Either you stay in Mexico, where the new President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador has offered you work, or hope on an air and sea bridge and asylum in Canada”. This possibility opened the migrants, on Monday, the canadian Archbishop Leonardo Marin-Saavedra. A proposal is currently being examined by the government, he said in the sports hall in Tijuana. However, the Transfer starts at the earliest in the spring and only for those who are accepted. Until then, you should visit in Tijuana, English courses and vocational training. If it ferments in the bottle neck to Tijuana for so long, or the Central Americans integrate after a certain time, even, as it happened recently with a wave of Haitian immigrants, must.