US authorities shut the country's busiest border crossing and fired tear gas into Mexico on Sunday to repel Central American migrants approaching the border after US President Donald Trump vowed the asylum-seekers would not easily enter the country.
US authorities shut the country's busiest border crossing and fired tear gas into Mexico on Sunday to repel Central American migrants approaching the border after US President Donald Trump vowed the asylum-seekers would not easily enter the country.
Traffic in both directions was suspended for several hours at the San Ysidro port of entry between San Diego and Tijuana, US officials said, disrupting trade at the most heavily trafficked land border in the Western Hemisphere. Pedestrian crossings and vehicle traffic later resumed, officials said.
Tensions on the border had been rising in recent days, with thousands of Central American migrants who arrived in a caravan camped out in a sports stadium in Tijuana. On Sunday, Mexican police broke up the latest in a series of daily protests, triggering a rush toward the US border.
1. Tear gas cloud
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Mexico's Federal Police walk out of a cloud of tear gas released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) after migrants, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America, attempted to illegally cross the border into the United States from Tijuana, Mexico November 25, 2018.
Photo Credits: Reuters
2. Caravan of migrants from Central America
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A photojournalist is surrounded in a cloud of tear gas released by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) after migrants, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America, attempted to illegally cross the border into the United States from Tijuana, Mexico November 25, 2018.
Photo Credits: Reuters
3. US soldiers fire tear gas
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US soldiers and US border patrols fire tear gas towards migrants, part of a caravan of thousands travelling from Central America en route to the United States, from the US side of the border fence between Mexico and the United States in Tijuana, Mexico, November 25, 2018.
Photo Credits: Reuters
4. Migrants en route to United States
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Migrants, part of a caravan of thousands travelling from Central America en route to the United States and journalists flee tear gas released by US border patrol near the fence between Mexico and the United States in Tijuana, Mexico, November 25, 2018.
Photo Credits: Reuters
5. Migrants climb walls to evade police
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Migrants, part of a caravan of thousands travelling from Central America en route to the United States, climb a wall to evade police and reach the border wall between the US and Mexico in Tijuana, Mexico November 25, 2018.
Photo Credits: Reuters
6. Girl cries after running away from tear gas
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A migrant girl from Honduras, part of a caravan of thousands traveling from Central America en route to the United States, cries after running away from tear gas thrown by the US border control near the border wall between the US and Mexico in Tijuana, Mexico November 25, 2018.
Photo Credits: Reuters
7. Lady with her five-month-old son pushed back from border wall
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Rosa Villa, 30, and her five-month-old son Esteban from Honduras, part of a caravan of thousands travelling from Central America en route to the United States, are pushed back from the border wall between the US and Mexico by Mexican police in Tijuana, Mexico November 25, 2018.
Photo Credits: Reuters
