US shuts down portion of Mexico border as groups of migrants clashed with authorities and reportedly

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US shuts down portion of Mexico border as groups of migrants clashed with authorities and reportedly stormed port of entry
Business Insider, Nov 15, 2018, Ellen Cranley

Authorities clashed with groups that are believed to be from the Central American migrant caravan Sunday after a group estimated to be in the hundreds stormed a US port of entry. [...]

Authorities clashed with members of a migrant caravan after a group estimated to be in the hundreds stormed a US port of entry, according to video and photos posted to social media from journalists on the ground.

The migrants left a makeshift shelter in Tijuana to head for San Ysidro, the largest port of entry on the southern US border. It has been reported nearly 5,000 migrants from the Central American caravan were being held in the Mexican city.

After police blocked a bridge, migrants crossed the Tijuana River on foot before approaching the port. ....   US Border Patrol then reportedly launched tear gas toward the Mexican side of the border, which Associated Press correspondent Chris Sherman tweeted carried for hundreds of yards.

Ana Zuniga, a 23-year-old from Honduras was carrying her 3-year old daughter. "We ran but when you run the smoke smothers you more," she told Sherman, who also tweeted that she saw US agents launching gas when migrants made a hole in a barrier's barbed wire.




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