Last Saturday, November 19, the last migrants arrived in Tijuana, the border that separates Mexico from the United States. It is estimated that there are about five thousand people, out of the twelve thousand who left in October. Meetings were to be held on Sunday to decide on the future. For now, there they are, looking behind the wall, and the Tijuans complain.

Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastélum did not move when the first migrants arrived and said they would be offered help. However, when they came more they did not receive them well, “the city has no capacity to accommodate 7,000 people,” he said. The City Council proposed locating the migrants in the periphery of the city, in the sports center Benito Juárez and in the area of Murua. The migrants did not accept it, claiming that “they would lose visibility”. Currently they are located in the plazas and supports of the city center. Many of them are in the process of applying for asylum. The Mexican government reported that it has “collapsed” as the number of requests has doubled.

In the name of the “movement against the chaos of the migrant caravan”, about 500 people have spoken this weekend. This xenophobic group is already known in Mexico: He has won over 5,000 proverbs on Facebook in a week. The demonstration took place on Saturday in the center of the city, passing through the places most frequented by the migrants. They shouted “Mexico for Mexicans” and “Marak kanpora”, relating migrants to criminal groups in Central America. However, they said they are not against progressive migrants, who just ask to "comply with the law." Many are “criminals” in their opinion.

There were moments of tension. Police intervened whenever demonstrators met the migrants and threatened them to leave. Mexican police arrested 34 Hondurans and Salvadorans and, according to the mayor, Gastélum, will comply with Article 33 of the Constitution so far this year. In other words, they will be deported.

Trump and his limits

In addition to that of Tijuana, U.S. President Donald Trump wants to keep all outstanding borders under control. East, west of Tijuana, is the Rio Grande, where Americans are building a wire barrier. Trump has been proud of the result of the work, which took place on Monday about a hundred people, according to social media reports.

Those who go through the United States, whether they are migrants or not, will not be able to seek asylum in the first 90 days, as Trump promised in October. Debates have taken place throughout the day in this respect. The last, San Francisco Judge John Tigar, who has disobeyed the president's order and accepted asylum requests.