Jose Luis Perez Canchola warned that the city was not prepared for President Trump’s plan for mass deportations and the cancellation of asylum appointments.
Mexican officials have converted an events center into a temporary shelter to house up to 2,600 people, in anticipation of mass deportations from the U.S.
The Mexican government opened a temporary shelter on Saturday in the border city of Tijuana, to house migrants deported from the United States under Donald Trump's administration. Camera: ALEX COSSIO.
Naser Zazai, 29, had planned to reunite with his mother and brother in the United States this week after fleeing Afghanistan, where he says he was threatened and attacked because his brother had once worked for the U.
January 26, 2025 – SAN DIEGO, CA – Alleged Sinaloa Cartel cell leader Octavio Leal-Hernandez, aka Chapito Leal, who is believed responsible for trafficking large amounts of methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and marijuana into the United States from Mexico, appeared in federal court on Thursday following his extradition from Mexico last Wednesday.
When Dayana Castro heard that the U.S. asylum appointment she waited over a year for was canceled in an instant, she had no doubt: She was heading north any way she could. The 25-year-old migrant, her husband and their 4- and 7-year-old children had nothing left at home in Venezuela.
Officials said the fire, which had spread to more than 500 acres by Thursday night, was miles away from threatening any homes or buildings.
People are considering whether to apply for permission to settle in Mexico, return home, or wait to see what Trump comes up with next
Nidia Montenegro fled violence and poverty at home in Venezuela, survived a kidnapping as she traveled north into Mexico, and made it to the border city of Tijuana on Sunday for a U.S. asylum appointment that would finally reunite her with her son living in New York.
About 200 migrants who had their CBP One immigration appointments canceled when President Trump was sworn into office are refusing to leave the San Ysidro border checkpoint until they are seen.
The CBP One app that worked as recently as that morning would no longer be used to admit migrants after facilitating entry for nearly 1 million people since23.
CBS 8 spoke with Cal Fire San Diego on how crews battle fires that happen on the Mexico side of the U.S.-Mexico border.