Migrant children and their families were sent running after the police attack Sunday.
U.S. Border patrol agents are firing tear gas at migrants after a group attempted to breach the border, the Associated Press reported Sunday.
Migrant children and their families were sent running after the police attack. Twenty-three-year-old Honduran migrant mother, Ana Zuniga, told AP some migrants managed to cut a small hole in the wire fence bordering Mexico which triggered police action from U.S. agents.
“We ran, but when you run the gas asphyxiates you more,” she said.
This is the second act of desperation Sunday after a few migrants broke through Mexican police lines guarding the international border. Although they seemed to pass through the first police unit without difficulty, however reports say the second line of officers is armed with riot shields.
Traffic in both directions has been stalled at the San Ysidro port, San Diego Border Patrol officials announced on Twitter.
U.S. President Donald Trump has raised alarms about a caravan of Central American migrants as it approached the United States, and has deployed military forces to the border to support the Border Patrol.
Trump tweeted on Saturday that migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border would stay in Mexico until their asylum claims were individually approved in U.S. courts, but Mexico's incoming government denied they had struck any deal.
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