After having his city invaded by thousands of migrants who are stressing local resources, the mayor of Tijuana is none too happy with those who have bankrolled and organized the caravans that are on a collision course with the Trump administration.
While celebs, Democrats and assorted leftist media ninnies have been squealing like stuck pigs over the Border Patrol’s use of tear gas to repel migrants who stormed the U.S border last Sunday, the man who was elected by the residents of the northern Mexican city is calling for the arrest of the organizers.
In an interview with Fox News, Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum
Via Fox News, “Tijuana mayor says arrest caravan organizer, vows to stop funding migrants”:
After declaring the migrant caravan a “humanitarian crisis” this week, Mayor Juan Manuel Gastélum told Fox News that he can no longer continue to fund the municipal effort to shelter them without federal assistance.
“I’m not going to break public services to solve this problem,” the Tijuana mayor said.
Even worse, he could be forced to raise taxes on Tijuana’s 1.7 million residents who have already suffered from Sunday’s clashes.
“In those six hours that the border was closed, we lost approximately 129 million pesos,” he said. “That’s not fair. How do you think people from Tijuana feel towards those people who are making problems?”
Meanwhile, conditions for the migrants in the tent city encampment worsened overnight with heavy winds and rain – flooding overcrowded spaces, leaving wet clothes, sleeping bags and litter strewn about an unsanitary and inhumane existence.
Efforts were underway to move some of them to a new location because of reports that more migrants were making their way to Tijuana.
Mayor Gastélum blames the organizers for whom he cannot identify. He said they should be held accountable. He said the leaders of the caravan should face criminal charges.
“Those are the real criminals because they’re dealing with the lives of people,” he says.
Arresting the organizers would be a good first step to getting some solid information on who is funding this threat to national security and unlike here where there are laws prohibiting such things, police in Tijuana should break out the rubber hoses and extract some valuable intel that will help U.S. authorities identify the shadowy operators behind the caravan.
