Central Americans in migrant caravan expected to ask for asylum at U.S. border
Vice President Mike Pence, center, meets with Border Patrol officials in Calexico on April 30.
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La instalación fronteriza en San Ysidro, que divide San Diego y Tijuana, tiene una capacidad para unas 300 personas, lo cual quiere decir que el cuello de botella tal vez dure poco...
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Groups on both sides of the border rally Sunday before immigrants from the caravan across Mexico were to seek asylum at the border with the U.S.
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People climb a section of border fence to look into the U.S. as members of a caravan of Central American asylum seekers arrive to a rally in Tijuana, Mexico.
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La Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza procesó unos 8,000 casos de asilo de octubre a febrero en ese cruce, o sea unos 50 por día.
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Central American asylum seekers walk from Mexico to the U.S. side of the border to ask authorities for asylum in Tijuana, Mexico on Sunday.
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Central American asylum seekers walk from Mexico to the U.S. side of the border to ask authorities for asylum in Tijuana, Mexico.
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Central American asylum seekers walk towards the U.S. border in Tijuana, Mexico to request asylum.
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Central American immigrants who traveled in a caravan from Mexico’s southern border rally demonstrate at the U.S. border in Tijuana.
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Central American asylum seekers walk to their legal-counsel meetings in Tijuana on Saturday.
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Central American children who have traveled for weeks with a caravan of immigrants, peer out at the border wall from a bus in Tijuana, Mexico.
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A child looks out from a bus carrying asylum seekers to the border in Tijuana, Mexico.
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A member of the Central American migrant caravan, cradling a child, looks to the U.S. through the border wall at Tijuana.
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Immigrants fleeing Central American register for legal counseling in Tijuana. Lawyers have volunteered to help people seeking asylum.
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Five couples are married on the beach during a rally with members of a caravan of Central American asylum seekers and supporters at the border in Tijuana, Mexico.
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