PICTURED: A group of Hondurans in the migrant caravan scale the Mexican border wall in Tijuana, and are immediately taken into US custody as they set foot in San Diego
Dozens of migrants, including children, jumped across the border between the US and Mexico on Sunday
They were immediately arrested by American Border Patrol guards and planned to claim political asylum
Thousands of migrants are camped on the Mexican side of the border after walking there as part of a caravan
Migrants had to move shelter after the first one flooded, with doctors warning disease outbreak is inevitable
By CHRIS PLEASANCE
DAILYMAIL.COM
3 December 2018
Dozens of Central American migrants scaled the border fence between Mexico and the US on Sunday, only to be arrested by US Border Patrol guards.
The migrants, who walked thousands of miles to the border as part of a caravan, said they now plan to claim political asylum – fearing violence because of their beliefs if they return home.
The courts have an obligation to hear all asylum cases no matter whether people entered the country illegally or not, after President Trump’s executive order looking to block the practice was deemed illegal.
Trump issued a proclamation on November 9 stating that any asylum seekers had to come through a legal port of entry to get into the United States, and their cases would not be heard otherwise.
But a little over a week later, a judge in San Francisco ruled the order could not stand because it marked an ‘extreme departure’ from prior practice.
The judge placed a restraining order on the executive order until later this month, when another court hearing will decide the outcome.
Meanwhile conditions for migrants camped on the Mexican side of the border improved slightly after a previous shelter housing 6,000 of them flooded.
Torrential rains on Thursday reduced the previous shelter, inside an old sports complex, to a ‘smelly, muddy mess’ with medics warning that an outbreak of disease was ‘a matter of when, not if’.
Migrants fled the shelter and set up tents along Tijuana’s streets before new accommodation was found in a disused concert venue further from the border.
Streams of migrants laden with heavy backpacks, tents and blankets – much of it soaking wet – were loaded into buses before being taken to the new site.
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