First Caravan Migrants Climb On US Fence As Hundreds Reach Tijuana — Leadership Newspaper

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About 20 Central Americans, part of a migrant caravan that left Honduras a month ago, scaled the US border fence in Tijuana in southern California on Tuesday, according to media reports and eyewitnesses.

The migrants sat on top of the fence for about 20 minutes and caused a US Border Patrol unit to be called to the scene, which observed the situation and did not step in, a Fox news affiliate reported from San Diego.

The fence, which separates Mexico from San Diego and the Border Field state park, extends into the Pacific Ocean.

Since the arrival of the migrants, border agents were seen patrolling the area in trucks, 4-wheel-drive vehicles and on horseback.

Other migrants stayed on the Mexican side of the fence, with some swimming in the sea, without the incident escalating.

This group is part of a contingent of about 360 Central Americans who arrived on Tuesday in Tijuana, in southern California, ahead of the rest of a caravan of the 5,000-strong caravan also heading for the US…



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