TIJUANA, Mexico—Since May, the tent city of Tijuana’s El Chaparral area has been filled with an added population of South American travelers in hopes of seeking a new life across the border in the United States—less than 1000 feet from where they sleep. At 10:00 am on a recent Saturday, a Mariachi band played worship music within the now fenced-off perimeter guarded by municipal and federal Mexican police forces. The air had a stench of portable toilets mixed with smoke coming from late morning meals. Hondurans, Guatemalans, and Haitians are just some of the mixed migrant groups living together within the encampment. Just two blocks away, a man with headphones sat next to a cat near the Nativo Coffee Community coffee shop. “My fellow Haitians are fleeing from poverty and economic difficulty right now,” Fritznel Merite told The Epoch Times. “The situation can be described as chaotic. Criminal activity is …
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