60 Mexican Migrant Protesters Detained Trying to Cross Into US from Tijuana CBS News
go to original March 17, 2014

United States Customs and Border Protection officers block entry lanes into the United States as a group of Border Dreamers and other supporters of an open border policy march toward the United States border last week in Tijuana, Mexico. (Lenny Ignelzi/Associated Press)

TIJUANA — Sixty Mexican migrants were detained Sunday by U.S. authorities after they crossed into the United States from the border city of Tijuana as part of a protest against U.S. immigration policies.

It was the third such group to try to enter the U.S. at the Otay Mesa border crossing in San Diego and ask for asylum in the last week.

The group, led by two young sisters whose parents live in North Carolina, held signs that read “Undocumented Unashamed,” and “Immigration reform starts here.” They said before crossing that they were protesting a growing number of deportations during President Barack Obama’s administration and demanding an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws.

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