(1 May 2018) Migrants in a caravan of Central American asylum seekers waited at the Mexican border with San Diego for a second straight day on Monday to turn themselves in to US border inspectors.
US border inspectors have said nation's busiest crossing facility did not have enough space to accommodate them.
The US Customs and Border Protection agency said in a statement on Monday that it had no estimate when the location would accept new asylum application cases.
About 50 people, many of them women and children, camped overnight on blankets and backpacks in Tijuana outside the Mexican entrance to the border crossing.
The crowd grew Monday, assembled behind metal gates that Mexican authorities erected to avoid impeding the flow of others going to the United States for work, school and recreation.
Another 50 asylum seekers were allowed past a gate controlled by Mexican officials Sunday to cross a long bridge but were stopped at the entrance to the US inspection facility at the other end.
They waited outside the building, technically on Mexican soil, without word of when US officials would let them try to claim asylum.
Irineo Mujica, a caravan organiser, said asylum-seekers who crossed the bridge remained in a waiting area on Mexican soil Monday.
He alleged that US authorities were refusing entry to dissuade people from trying.
Customs and Border Protection said Sunday that it will resume asylum processing at the San Diego crossing when it has more space and resources.
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