In spite of warnings, migrants keep showing up at border campsite in Tijuana
In spite of warnings, migrants keep showing up at border campsite in Tijuana
Posted: Feb 26, 2021 / 07:19 PM GMT-0600 / Updated: Feb 26, 2021 / 07:31 PM GMT-0600
Two unidentified young girls are part of a group numbering 300 who are residing on a makeshift campsite just south of the San Ysidro Port of Entry. (Jorge Nieto/Special to Border Report)
TIJUANA (Border Report) — The number of asylum-seekers and migrants at an impromptu campsite just south of the San Ysidro Port of Entry is now an estimated 300 people.
Folks began camping out late last week in anticipation of asylum-seekers finally being allowed to enter the United States back on Feb. 19.
Panga with 20 Onboard Intercepted at Sea
Panga with 20 Onboard Intercepted at Sea
Release Date: January 12, 2021
SAN DIEGO — Saturday night, DHS partners interdicted a panga boat at sea with undocumented migrants on board.
USBP agents in coordination with CBP Air and Marine Operations arrested 20 migrants who were being smuggled into the U.S. on a small panga vessel near San Diego.
At approximately 11:20 p.m., an Air and Marine Operations (AMO) Multi-Role Enforcement Aircraft (MEA) crew spotted a suspicious vessel off the coast of San Diego. The MEA crew vectored in an AMO Marine Unit crew, who interdicted the panga boat approximately a quarter mile west of the Point Loma shoreline.