Hundreds of people who arrived in Tijuana with the first wave of the migrant caravan planned to spend Wednesday night in a makeshift camp by the Pacific Ocean, steps from the tall border fence that separates Mexico and the United States. But those plans shifted in the evening, after local and state officials opened a temporary shelter – and about 300 local residents gathered by the encampment to demand the migrants leave the upscale Playas de Tijuana neighborhood and go to the facility.
During a confrontation that lasted more than three hours, area residents sang the Mexican national anthem and waved Mexican flags. They chanted “Mexico! Mexico!” each time a bus transporting migrants left the beach for the temporary shelter. Mostly women and children went to the shelters, while young men from the caravan said they were determined to stay together at the beach and await the estimated 2,000 more caravan members on their way to Tijuana.
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The Secular Jurist 
Because their life isn’t already miserable enough.
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Indeed. I fear such ethnic tensions will get much worse as migration increases in response to social/political turmoil, climate change, and other factors.
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Was it Day After Tomorrow where US residents flee to Mexico? Intertesting twist in an otherwise horrible film.
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Yes, great irony in that fiction even though the film made a mockery of climate science.
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