FOTOS: Llega cuarta oleada de centroamericanos a Tijuana
Men stand outside the temporary shelter set up at the Unidad Deportiva Benito Juarez in Tijuana hoping to get in for the evening. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Unos 3,000 migrantes centroamericanos arribaron a Tijuana, en la frontera de México con California, con una meta: llegar a Estados Unidos.
A woman hoping for a place to stay, waits outside the temporary shelter set up at the Unidad Deportiva Benito Juarez in Tijuana. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Organizers at the shelter set up at the Unidad Deportiva Benito Juarez in Tijuana, try their best to keep everyone informed. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
At the temporary shelter set up at the Unidad Deportiva Benito Juarez in Tijuana, many migrants that arrived on Thursday as part of the central American migrant caravan wait outside hoping to get into the shelter. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Young children wait outside the temporary shelter set up at the Unidad Deportiva Benito Juarez in Tijuana hoping to get in for the evening. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Two girls play on the swing just outside the temporary shelter set up at the Unidad Deportiva Benito Juarez in Tijuana. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
State official gets a tour of the temporary shelter set up at the Unidad Deportiva Benito Juarez in Tijuana. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
After waiting hours in line a mother and her children are accepted into the temporary shelter at the Unidad Deportiva Benito Juarez in Tijuana. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
At the temporary shelter set up at the Unidad Deportiva Benito Juarez, a mother from Hunduras who arrived with the first group with the central American migrant caravan uses a wet wipe to bathe her daughter on Wednesday. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
At the temporary shelter set up at the Unidad Deportiva Benito Juarez in Tijuana, many migrants that arrived on Thursday as part of the central American migrant caravan wait outside hoping to get into the shelter. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
At the temporary shelter set up at the Unidad Deportiva Benito Juarez in Tijuana, many migrants that arrived on Thursday as part of the central American migrant caravan wait outside hoping to get into the shelter. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
One couple who wasn’t able to get into the shelter at Unidad Deportiva Benito Juarez in Tijuana, slept on the sidewalk. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
At the temporary shelter set up at the Unidad Deportiva Benito Juarez in Tijuana, many migrants that arrived on Thursday as part of the central American migrant caravan wait outside hoping to get into the shelter. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Men fortunate to get into the temporary shelter set up at the Unidad Deportiva Benito Juarez in Tijuana, pass the time playing cards. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Men fortunate to get into the temporary shelter set up at the Unidad Deportiva Benito Juarez in Tijuana, pass the time playing cards. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Families with young children stand outside the temporary shelter set up at the Unidad Deportiva Benito Juarez in Tijuana hoping to get in for the evening. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Families with young children stand outside the temporary shelter set up at the Unidad Deportiva Benito Juarez in Tijuana hoping to get in for the evening. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Families with young children stand outside the temporary shelter set up at the Unidad Deportiva Benito Juarez in Tijuana hoping to get in for the evening. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Migrants arrived at the Desayunador Salesiano Padre Chava in Tijuana and from there waited to relocate to one of the shelters. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
At the temporary shelter set up at the Unidad Deportiva Benito Juarez in Tijuana, many migrants with young children waited in line to be accepted into the shelter. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
A woman prepares her blankets for the evening at one of the shelters set up for the migrants from the Central American migrant caravan. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
One man at the shelter at Unidad Deportiva Benito Juarez in Tijuana used a razor to trim the hair of another. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Nelvin Cepeda has been a photojournalist at U-T San Diego for more than 20 years. His photo assignments have taken him all over the U.S. covering national breaking news, NFL games, Presidential Political conventions, NFL Super Bowl. His overseas assignments has taken him to Pakistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Nel assignments overseas also includes 8 trips to Afghanistan and Iraq where he has covered U.S. Marines and U.S. Army deployed to the war zone. His work has been published in the Washington Post, New York Times, Time & Newsweek magazine.