The first wave of migrants from the Central American caravan began climbing border fences on Tuesday after arriving at the U.S. border.
Many on the Mexican side of the border climbed the fence and sat or walked on top of it, while others jumped and crawled through openings in the fence, only to run back to the Mexico side when U.S. Border Patrol agents approached, Fox 5 San Diego reported.
Border Patrol released a statement Tuesday that said they believe some of those at the fence are members who were traveling as part of the Central American migrant caravan that originated in Honduras.
Migrants who reached the border fence in that area are from Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador.
“As we have said repeatedly, being a member of a caravan doesn’t give you any special rights to enter the country,” Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Katie Waldman said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “If they arrive at a Port of Entry, they will have to wait in line in keeping with the lawful processes at our ports of entry. If they attempt to enter illegally, they will have violated U.S. criminal law and in accordance with the President’s proclamation and the Interim Final Rule they would be ineligible for asylum.”
The San Diego Union-Tribune released video that showed the perspective of those climbing the fences from the Mexican side of the border.
The first part of the thousands-strong caravan arrived at the U.S. border with Tijuana over the weekend, and made up an 80-person LGBTQ subsection of the group, according to NPR.
The members said they broke off from the larger group in Mexico City after they were discriminated against by local residents and other travelers for weeks.
"Whenever we arrived at a stopping point the LGBT community was the last to be taken into account in every way. So our goal was to change that and say, 'This time we are going to be first,'” Honduran migrant Cesar Mejia said during a news conference Sunday.
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