Tijuana Mayor Asks for Help as Thousands of Migrants Gather in City

A crowd of men gathers as Tijuana municipal police arrest two members of a migrant caravan for alleged marijuana possession at a municipal sports complex in Tijuana, Mexico, on Nov. 17, 2018. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

TIJUANA, Mexico—More than 2,400 migrants, mostly from Honduras, had reached the Mexican border city of Tijuana by the evening of Nov. 17, with thousands more expected in the coming days.

The majority are bunking down in tents and cots at a municipal sports complex in the Zona Norte district of Tijuana, located adjacent to the San Ysidro border crossing.