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A group of about 150 migrants carrying white flags bearing the inscription "La paz y Dios" or "Peace and God be with us" is separated from the largest caravan close to Southern California and located less than 500 feet from the United States, a report said Thursday.
The migrants said they carried white flags to show that they were peaceful and that they would try to stand as asylum seekers near Baja, California, reported on Monday. San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper.
President Trump threatened Thursday to close the border with Mexico if his administration decided that Mexico had lost control of the situation. The Union-Tribune reported that the Mexican Federal Police maintained a barrier near a pedestrian crossing and urged migrants to apply for jobs in Tijuana. Police claimed that there were thousands of jobs in the city. The federal police wore riot gear and prevented the caravan from getting closer to the United States.
Carlos Lopez, a Honduran leader of the small group, told the newspaper that conditions in Mexico were horrible. He said that there were sick children and that women and children were forced to stay out in the elements. Those already in the city have camped in tents, slept in mudflats or benches, or stayed in overcrowded shelters in the city waiting for their next steps.
"The whole world is watching what's happening here," he said.
The report indicates that the largest group includes about 6,219 people from Central America. The federal government estimates that the number of migrants could reach 10,000 in the weeks or months to come. President Trump warned that the caravan posed a threat to national security and that it would not enter the United States.
On Monday, a judge banned the president from imposing a ban on asylum for those who illegally cross the US border – a decision that, according to the administration, would cause "innumerable illegal aliens in our country ".
The report states that migrants who have traveled for more than a month can now see a bridge that separates them from the United States.
Speaking to reporters while he was in Florida for the holidays, Trump threatened to close the US border with Mexico for an undisclosed period if his administration decided that his southern ally had lost "control." "on his side.
Trump also said that he had given the thousands of active soldiers that he had sent to the border before the mid-term elections on November 6 the "good one to use deadly force against them." migrants "they owe it. "And he said Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who he blamed for not being tough enough on immigration, was" trying ".
Andrew O & Reilly of Fox News contributed to this story
