Deported Migrants Cope After Tijuana Police Destroy Their Homes Adrian Florido - KPBS.org
go to original August 10, 2013

This week, law enforcement in Tijuana evicted hundreds of people who live in makeshift homes on the banks of the Tijuana river. Fronteras reporter Adrian Florido visited to see how these people, among Tijuana's most destitute, are faring. (KPBSSanDiego)

TIJUANA, Mexico — The concrete channel that carries the slow trickle of the Tijuana River along the U.S.-Mexico border fence is known as "El Bordo."

Hundreds, possibly thousands of people — mostly migrants deported from the U.S. —live on the edge of the canal, in little lean-tos or in holes dug into piles of sand.

On Monday morning, a team of federal, state and municipal officers swarmed the canal, arrested 90 people, evicted hundreds more, destroyed their lean-tos and filled in their holes.

Juan Carlos Garcia Perez says the officers arrived suddenly. Some people, including himself, ran away, but others were roused from their holes and taken into custody.

"They started destroying everything, knocking things down, throwing clothes around," he said.

After the raid, a group called Angels Without Borders showed up with tents. It helped some of the migrants set up a camp in a barren plaza near the canal.

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