Radical American Activists Flock To Migrant Caravan In Tijuana
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
By Jean Guerrero
The flyers spread across the migrant camps in Tijuana. Some Central Americans squinted at the papers as if they were love letters they didn’t believe. Others planned.
“Open the border or we’ll shut it down! All of us must be allowed to enter!†the notes read in Spanish.
The handouts, made in the United States, informed migrants of their legal right to seek asylum regardless of how they enter the U.S. Some featured illustrations of silhouetted families tearing down a chain-link fence.
The flyers were written in the first-person plural, as if by the migrants themselves. But they were, in fact, authored by BAMN, By Any Means Necessary, a U.S.-based group.
“Getting across the border by any means necessary is absolutely the right thing to do,†BAMN National Chair Shanta Driver told KPBS in a phone interview from the U.S. “We urge and encourage people to take mass action.â€
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