TIJUANA, Mexico -- About 2,000 migrants from the Central American caravan are at America's doorstep and another 1,200 from a second caravan set out from Mexico City toward the border Friday. With U.S. border inspectors processing only about 100 asylum claims a day at the main border crossing with San Diego, prospects grew that migrants would be stuck waiting in Tijuana for months.
The first group split from a larger group of about 5,000 planning to request asylum in the U.S. The caravan has fragmented somewhat in recent days in a final push to the border, with some migrants moving rapidly in buses and others falling behind.
With shelters already full, authorities in Tijuana opened a gymnasium and gated sport complex for up to 1,000 migrants, with a potential to expand to 3,000. But at least that many migrants were still on the road or trickling into the city aboard buses, and a third caravan was still waiting in Mexico City.
Tijuana faces a potential influx of as many as 10,000 in all. The city's privately run shelters are meant to have a capacity of 700.
Francisco Rueda, the top deputy to Baja California state Gov. Francisco Vega de la Madrid, said, "This is not a crisis," but agreed that "this is an extraordinary situation."
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