- Fri Nov 23, 2018 9:11 am
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Echoing the border control sentiments of President Donald Trump, Mexican citizens in Tijuana protested the influx of illegal aliens from Honduras and other Latin American countries, denouncing the migrant caravans on Sunday as an "illegal invasion" and calling for a "Tijuana First! Mexico First!" policy.
"Tijuana is a place that welcomes anyone, but you must have papers, you must identify yourself," said demonstrator Magdalena Baltazar, waving a Mexican flag and marching through Tijuana on Sunday, reported NPR. "We work hard here. We don't get handouts. The government shouldn't be giving things to migrants when plenty of Mexicans are in a difficult position."
Tijuana's mayor, Juan Manuel Gastelum, told Milenio television last week, "I would dare say that many are not migrants. Sure, there are some good people in the caravan, but many are very, very bad people. They are stealing from and attacking the citizens of my city and I call for the Mexican government to do more stop this scum from entering Mexico. My jails are over capacity, we don't have the means to protect everyone so I am encouraging Tijuana citizens to avoid contact with these people and lock their doors at all times. President Trump saw in this caravan what many others didn't see, this is not a migration, it's an aggressive invasion organized by thugs. When media arrive to their locations, you can see the men scrambling to gather children and women to push them in front of the cameras. The physical and sexual abuse of these women and children is on a scale seldom seen in modern history, but yet human rights groups remains silent to this aspect of this group."