Mexico struggling with Russian asylum-seekers trying to enter US through Tijuana
by Anna Giaritelli, Homeland Security Reporter | | March 18, 2022 02:13 PM
Mexican officials in the northern border city of Tijuana are struggling to deal with a growing number of Russian refugees flying into the country and setting up tent encampments near the California border.
Russian migrants who have fled their homeland amid the war that Vladimir Putin is waging against Ukraine have been living south of the San Ysidro Port of Entry over the past couple weeks. San Ysidro is the busiest port of entry in the Western Hemisphere and connects Tijuana, Baja California, to San Diego, California. Migrants from Ukraine and Russia have increasingly flown into Tijuana, then approached the port of entry to claim asylum because they cannot fly directly into the U.S.
Unlike Ukrainians, whom the Biden administration has allowed U.S. border officials to admit into the country as asylum-seekers, Russian asylum-seekers are being denied entry and forced to wait indefinitely in Tijuana.
One Russian migrant identified as Mike told Border Report that he and his wife fled their home seeking "freedom" in the U.S.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/mexico-struggling-with-russian-asylum-seekers-trying-to-enter-us-through-tijuana
