Tijuana Shelters That Housed Deportees Now Find Themselves Housing Refugees Brooke Binkowski - CNS
go to original July 21, 2016

The people who arrive at the Cafemin refugee center in Mexico are escaping war and violence. For many, Mexico is just another stop on their journey. They hope to make it to the United States, but how they will get there is another matter. (DW)

The border city of Tijuana is filled with dreams and nightmares, happy endings and tragic beginnings, broken families and shattered promises. Mostly, though, it is filled with waiting. People waiting to leave for the United States, people waiting to return to their families, people waiting for their families to return to them.

Since late May, more than a thousand people have shown up from countries around the world. Haitians, Ghanaians, Hondurans, Salvadorans and people from many other countries have fled economic or political instability and violence to arrive at the doorstep of the United States to ask for refuge. As they wait for the backlog of applications to be processed by U.S. officials, migrants have been taken in by Tijuana shelters usually used to house deportees.

... Nobody knows exactly how many people are taking the long roads from Africa, South and Central America, and Europe, but the flow of people from countries across the world shows no signs of stopping - and each hopeful person seeking refuge at the United States' southern border says there are thousands more behind them.

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