Hundreds of migrants from Central America traveling through Mexico have gathered around a tense US border crossing, where US security measures created long lines of Mexicans headed to the US to attend Thanksgiving gatherings.
With few belongings, and many of them with children in tow, the migrants set out for the crossing from the baseball field in the Mexican border city of Tijuana where they have been camped out.
They arrived at the Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana on Thursday, opposite San Diego, California, and said they would wait there until they could request asylum, in spite of growing US measures to tighten the border.
Around 6,000 migrants who have trekked across Mexico in a caravan in recent weeks are now crammed into the baseball field.
“We are already desperate, last night it rained and we all got wet. There is no room left. We are all sick. My children have a cold … and nobody has come to give us help,” said David, a…