MEXICALI, Mexico — More than 1,000 Central American migrants crowded into shelters in the town of Mexicali on the California-Mexico border this weekend, after Mexican police blocked their buses from proceeding to Tijuana, where another 2,400 caravan members have converged.
The migrants hoped to reunite in Tijuana with the people they had traversed Mexico with over the past month. Some said they planned to search for work in Tijuana, one of the country’s largest and fastest growing cities. Some said they would seek asylum in the United States, while others said they would consider continuing on to Canada or another country that would give them work permits.
But Mexican federal police prevented the buses from continuing along the highway to Tijuana because Mexico’s westernmost border city — 100 miles away — is already full of migrants, according to Gustavo Pacheco Aguilar, who runs a shelter in Mexicali called Grupo de Ayuda Para el Migrante de Mexicali.
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