Mexico’s Tijuana Shelter of 6,000 Caravan Migrants Closed

Sunday, December 2, 2018
By Paul Martin

SputnikNews.com
02.12.2018

Earlier, Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum described the migrant caravan as a “humanitarian crisis,” saying that due to the caravan’s arrival he could be forced to raise taxes for the city’s 1.7 million residents who have already suffered from recent clashes on the US border.

A migrant shelter at the Benito Juarez sports complex in the Mexican city of Tijuana, which accommodated about 6,000 refugees eager to enter the US, has been closed due to “bad sanitary conditions,” according to the city government.

Mud, lice infestations and respiratory infections were reportedly rampant in the Benito Juarez shelter, with the conditions worsening after nights with heavy winds and rains left migrants’ wet clothes, sleeping bags and litter all around town after the overcrowded areas were flooded.

Tijuana officials said that apart from ordinary respiratory infections, migrants from the caravan are suffering from dangerous diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.

The officials added that all the refugees will be relocated to a former concert venue much farther from the border, but that nobody would be forced to move to the new facility which is known as El Barretal and run by federal authorities.

Earlier this week, Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum said that he cannot continue to fund the shelters for migrants without federal support and that the city’s 1.7 million residents will face increasing taxes in the future.

“In those six hours that the border was closed, we lost approximately 129 million pesos. That’s not fair. How do you think people from Tijuana feel towards those people who are making problems?” he said.

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