Mexico says it will deport nearly 100 migrants who tried to cross U.S. border (with tear gas)

[Chris 58,350]

Mexican federal authorities surrounded a shelter here holding members of a caravan of Central American migrants and refugees Monday as the country said it was deporting anyone who crossed illegally the day before.

More than 100 federal police officers, some with riot gear, circled the Benito Juarez shelter, where many migrants making their way to the U.S., are staying on Monday.

It was unclear why the police were lined up around the shelter and what their role would be as some of the migrants wait for a chance to claim asylum in the United States. The authorities could be there to prevent a confrontation similar to Sunday's incident at the border.

Migrants inside the camp were concerned police would search for anyone involve in a march at the U.S. border on Sunday and apprehend them.

Schools in the area of the shelter were also shut down and children were sent home and a long line of hundreds of migrants waited outside the shelter for food Monday morning.

Meanwhile, Mexico’s Ministry of the Interior said Monday that 98 migrants were apprehended and turned over to the authorities in order to be deported to their countries of origin because of the “violent behavior of a group of migrants who tried to attack and injure” officials who were guarding the border.

The agency also said it was working with authorities to find other individuals involved in Sunday's incident and “carry out their immediate deportation” if appropriate.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials fired tear gas on hundreds of migrants who sought to enter the U.S. on Sunday near San Diego, leading to U.S. officials shutting down the San Ysidro Port of Entry between San Diego and Tijuana for more than six hours.

That shutdown happened after hundreds of migrants and refugees assembled Sunday morning on Mexican side of the border for a peaceful protest before some tried to cross the border illegally.

Sunday's events left many inside Benito Juarez feeling scared and unsettled.

The photograph of one mother, with fear in her eyes, running from where the tear gas was being deployed in an embankment with her children went viral and drew outrage at the U.S.'s use of the chemical agent.

The woman in the photo name is Maria Mesa, from Honduras. On Monday, she spoke to NBC News from inside her tent at the Benito Juarez shelter.

“One of them could have died,” Mesa said. “He fainted,” she said, pointing to her 3-year-old son, James.

After they threw the tear gas, Mesa said her son fell and inhaled the gas before he had a chance to run away from it.

 

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[Darth Sidious 11,686]

Donald Trump is so stupid that he studies for drug tests. 

 

Just came in here to say that. 

[KatnissLawrence 986]

This is so Inhumane. These people are terrified for their lives and have no food. This administration is so palpably draconian it's not even funny anymore.

[Darth Sidious 11,686]

Wait, I have another one — what’s the difference between Donald Trump and a dog turd? 

The dog turd ages better.

[Darth Sidious 11,686]

On a serious note, I wonder what it’ll take to convince the gulibile, morally reprehensible, uneducated, ignorant dumbfucks that still support him that gasing shoeless migrant children from Guatemala is in any way acceptable in 2018. 

[River Song 586]

6 minutes ago, Mamacita said:

On a serious note, I wonder what it’ll take to convince the gulibile, morally reprehensible, uneducated, ignorant dumbfucks that still support him that gasing shoeless migrant children from Guatemala is in any way acceptable in 2018. 

Nothing they're monsters who fully believe nobody besides them and theirs are human. 

[Venus XCX 10,308]

Land of the free indeed...

 

[Chris 58,350]

lets hope the Democrats in office now will actually help this crumbling nation  

[Darth Sidious 11,686]

I just saw the news report on this on television. 

This country is fundamentally still one of, if not the, greatest political abstractions to ever be conceived.

Its just that the lunatics have hijaked it — and they were put there by idiots. I just cling to the fact that there are more kind, decent people in this country. 

I’m just embarrassed by this, and I’m sorry for those immigrants. 

[Merryem 8,076]

this makes me so angry i could cry. trump and anyone who supports tear gassing literal familes needs to take a long look at themselves and how they came to be the way they are

[Ruthless Love 7,324]

That image breaks my heart. What the fuck has this world come to?