Here’s how you can help migrants waiting at the U.S.-Mexico border

Many people have expressed outrage since seeing pictures earlier this week of unarmed mothers and children coughing, crying, and running away from tear gas at the U.S.-Mexico border. 

Some of the migrants, many of whom were trying to enter the U.S. to apply for asylum, had run to a border crossing when U.S. Customs and Border Protection closed the entrance and fired tear gas into the crowd. 

More than 5,800 migrants from Central America have been dwelling at the Benito Juarez Sports Complex in Tijuana, Mexico, just one block away from the border, waiting to apply for asylum. U.S. Customs and Border Protection only processes between 40 and 80 cases a day at that site, which means migrants may wait weeks or months with limited access to food, water, health services, and other basic needs and supplies.  Read more…

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