TIJUANA MAYOR DECLARES MIGRANT HUMANITARIAN CRISIS, REQUESTS URGENT U.N. HELP
TUCSON, ARIZONA BORDER PATROL SPOKESWOMAN SPEAKS
The mayor of Tijuana has declared a humanitarian crisis in his border
city and said Friday that he has asked the United Nations for aid to
deal with the approximately 5,000 Central American migrants who have
arrived.
Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum said that the Mexican federal government has
provided little assistance and he is not going to commit the city’s
public resources to dealing with the situation. He said 4,976 migrants
had come to the city.
“We don’t have sufficient and necessary infrastructure to adequately
attend to these people, to give them a decent space,” he said on Grupo
Formula radio.
On Thursday, his government issued a statement saying that it was
requesting help from the U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs.
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