Central Americans in migrant caravan expected to ask for asylum at U.S. border

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

Central American asylum seekers walk from Mexico to the U.S. side of the border to ask authorities for asylum in Tijuana, Mexico.

Central American asylum seekers walk towards the U.S. border in Tijuana, Mexico to request asylum.

Central American immigrants who traveled in a caravan from Mexico’s southern border rally demonstrate at the U.S. border in Tijuana.

Central American asylum seekers walk to their legal-counsel meetings in Tijuana on Saturday.

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.

A child looks out from a bus carrying asylum seekers to the border in Tijuana, Mexico.

A member of the Central American migrant caravan, cradling a child, looks to the U.S. through the border wall at Tijuana.

Immigrants fleeing Central American register for legal counseling in Tijuana. Lawyers have volunteered to help people seeking asylum.

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.