"I thought I was going to die," says the immigrant from the photo that goes around the internet

A migrant who immortalized the lens of the camera while she runs with her little girls to be saved from tear gas at the US border with Mexico, said she's not sure she's going to be in trouble. was not waiting for the US border guards to use the children.

After being able to arrive after a long trip from Honduras and wait for a week in Tijuana, Maria Mesa, 35, took charge of her five children Sunday at the border, hoping to apply for admission. . get asylum in the United States. Like hundreds of other Central American migrants, Media and her children were bothered by the Mexican police and stormed the border. Dozens of people tried to cross the barrier and enter the US side.

Three rollers launched on the American side have landed around Mesa and her children, she told the reception center of Tijuana. "The first one I did was catch my kids," he said. A photo on which the woman is portrayed while she runs while holding her five-year-old twin daughters with a third child, her 13-year-old daughter by her side, has been widely circulated on the Internet and provoked angry reactions from politicians and non-citizens. governmental organizations in the United States – and beyond.

"I was scared, I thought we would die because of gas," admitted Meda. His youngest son almost fainted, he added. The woman fell and struggled to get up as she struggled to catch her breath. A young man put her hand, helped her up.

"We did not think of throwing those gas bombs where children were present, because there were a lot of children, it was not right, they know we are human beings as they are," he said. said Mesa, speaking from the visible point of the fence between Tijuana and the United States, made of rusted steel.

About 5,200 immigrants, who have spread to Mexico, flooded the shelter, a Tijuana stadium, and live in makeshift scenes.

"I came here for a reason, namely that there is a lot of violence in Honduras," Mesa said as one of her children was playing with one of the empty containers of tears dropped by customs and US border guards. CBP).

The US Department of Homeland Security announced that CBP leaders had been hit by objects throwing immigrants.

Republican President Donald Trump has a tough stance against immigrants. On Monday, he said the Mexican authorities should expel them.

CBP considers that most people gathered at the border are economic migrants who do not have the right to asylum.

US authorities on Sunday closed the transit point from Tijuana to San Diego for several hours. Trab threatened to close the border completely.

"If they close the borders, I ask God to open our door here in Tijuana or in another country, to allow us to survive in me and my children," Mesa said.