A few months ago, sometimes hundreds of migrants would come through the border every day---but now there are patrols from the Mexican Army and Mexican National Guard, along with immigration officers, looking to stop the migrants from reaching the US.
Whereas on the US California side, the travelers are willing, even happy, to run toward border agents – often so they can start asylum proceedings – here it is a different story. The migrants do not want to encounter the Mexican authorities as they will be taken to Tijuana, and then hundreds of miles further to Mexico’s southern border to be processed for deportation, if they have no right to be in the country.
