Migrants moved farther from US-Mexico border after Tijuana shelter gets shut down

Migrants seeking entry into the U.S. have been moved to a shelter farther south from the U.S.-Mexico border after the city government shut down the sports complex where they had been staying.

Citing "bad sanitary conditions," the city ceased operations at the Benito Juarez sports complex a week after hundreds of migrants rushed a port of entry between Tijuana and San Diego, Calif., prompting a temporary shutdown of the border crossing and the use of tear gas by U.S. border officials on migrants who attempted to cross into the U.S. illegally.

Buses moved the migrants to a federally run shelter 14 miles away from the San Ysidro port of entry, where asylum seekers file their applications, and 10 miles from the Otay Mesa border crossing, the Associated Press reported Saturday. They weren't forced to go to the new shelter, a former concert venue known as El Barretal, but Tijuana officials told the migrants that food and medical services at the Benito Juarez sports complex would no longer be available.

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