Angels Without Borders Turns Tijuana Plaza Into Haven for US-Deported Migrants Jill Replogle - KPBS.org
go to original October 16, 2013

Life in the Deportee Slums of Mexico (VICE)

TIJUANA, Mexico — It looks a bit like the Occupy Wall Street camp in New York City, except more organized. Dozens of mostly identical pup tents are lined up in neat rows around Tijuana’s Plaza Constitución, just a few blocks from the city’s central tourist district.

In early August, Tijuana police cleared out the canal that borders San Diego. They evicted hundreds of migrants, deported from the U.S., who had camped there. They ended up here, and since then the squatter’s camp in the Tijuana plaza has become a virtual village.

More than 600 migrants who’ve been deported from the U.S. are now living in this part-protest camp, part-homeless shelter. A group of deportees from Mexicali who call themselves Ángeles Sin Fronteras, or Angels Without Borders, helped set up the camp.

They purchased the tents, and now they’re running the place.

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