‘We don’t want you here’: Mexicans protest against migrant caravan

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Hundreds of residents of the Mexican border city of Tijuana protest the thousands of Central American migrants who have arrived in the hope of starting a new life in the US. On Sunday, local residents waved Mexican flags, sang the national anthem and chanted ‘Out! Out!’ At one point, police formed a barrier between the Central American migrants and protesting locals. Protesters have called the migrant caravan an ‘invasion’ and are accusing the migrants of being messy, ungrateful and a danger to Tijuana. They are concerned Mexican taxes might be spent to care for the group as they wait, possibly months, to apply for asylum in the US