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Asylum Fees Proposed by Trump Completely Unaffordable for Asylum Seekers By Manuel Ocaño Nelly C believes that the United States government is making it near impossible for migrants to seek asylum. “If it is true that we are going to be charged a fee in order to request asylum, I don’t think anyone will have the money to pay it. If we all left what little we had behind and fled not just from violence, but also from poverty, how could we afford to pay?” said the single mother who journeyed to Tijuana with her two children. President Trump is proposing, beginning in late July, for the go...

Manuel Ocaño | La Prensa San Diego Close to 1,500 migrants have departed from Honduras in two separate groups headed for the U.S.-Mexico border – tentatively Tijuana – with the intention of petitioning for asylum in the U.S. The number is but a fraction of the 15,000 migrants that a Tijuana activist had assured would leave San Pedro Sula in the early hours of Jan. 15. Because of the news of the potentially 15,000-member caravan, President Trump said during his visit to the Texas border that “a new, even larger is being formed in Honduras, larger than anything we’ve seen.” However...

Juan Barraza After living in San Diego county for 27 years, Juan Barraza, now deported, has faced tough times. Just this past Saturday, rain flooded the five-square-foot tent he’s been living in at a Tijuana public park. “Well, at least I wasn’t getting wet the whole time. Back in December, I was still sleeping on the street,” said the former resident of Escondido, Vista, and Oceanside. On Sunday, he took advantage of a moment when the sky cleared to put out cardboard to dry so he could use it as a makeshift mattress on top of a wood plank elevated on bricks so he can keep dry during ...

San Diego Muslims Bring Message of Peace to Border Church Service By Manuel Ocaño A group of Muslims from San Diego joined the Border Church, that meets every Sunday in the Friendship Park between Imperial Beach and Tijuana Beaches, as a gesture of unity and peace. Some of the Muslims stated that they chose to cross the border and join the Christian parishioners on the Mexican side of the border because it reinforces a feeling of unity. Sonia García, of the Latina Muslim Foundation of San Diego, said in Spanish that, “when we stop judging and pointing each other out, regardless of religio...

Judge Blocks Program that Returned Central American Asylum Seekers to Tijuana By Manuel Ocaño This Monday, a federal judge in California temporarily blocked the Trump Administration’s policy of returning Central American asylum seekers to Tijuana and Mexicali as they wait for their court hearings. He also ordered for those immigrants who have already had their initial court date to be immediately returned to the United States. The measure will take effect this Friday, April 12th, at 5:00 p.m. Pacific time. According to Judge Richard Seeborg’s order, some of the 1,105 Central American mi...