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Migrants from Central American caravan.
Migrants camped in Tijuana after traveling in a caravan to reach the U.S were weighing their options Tuesday
after a U.S. court blocked President Donald Trump's asylum ban for illegal border crossers.
Many said they have no intention of breaking the law, but were feeling pressure after anti-migrant protests in this Mexican border city
amid claims by Trump and the Tijuana mayor that the caravan harbors gang members and criminals, something they strongly deny.
Keven Paul Mejia, a 27-year-old former security guard from the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, said there were
some delinquents traveling with the group of several thousand who smoke marijuana and get drunk.
But, he said, most are like him, just hoping to land a job in the U.S.
"There are more of us who are good, than bad," Mejia said.
Herson Cordonez, a 29-year-old Honduran, said the actions of a few migrants were tainting the image of the 4,000 to 6,000 in the caravan, not all of whom have yet reached Tijuana. "We are not criminals, we are migrant workers," Cordonez said, adding that he was considering trying to get into Canada if the U.S. doesn't want him.
Tijuana officials said late Monday they had arrested 34 caravan members for drug possession, public intoxication, disturbing the peace and resisting police, and they would be deported to their home countries.
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Of all the Hollywood elite who virtue signal and pay lip service, it's nice that one in a million like James Woods actually seems to care, and actually does something about it.
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