“There is a lot of trash because what I was [trying] to tell you, the 360 grew to 6,200 [migrants] and that’s when it got out of hand. So we got another facility, it’s a big concert hall where you can have like 10,000 people under a roof. We sent them over here but it has to be voluntary because the people from human rights, they have their delegates here, too. And they want to — they wanted to treat them too kindly. So the ones that didn’t want to go are staying here, so there’s like 1,500 people here, 2,200 people there and there are like 2,000 people that we … aren’t accounted for,” Genaro Lopez Moreno stated.
“Well, I have heard that like the border patrol has been going up in detentions. Like 100-150 more detentions a day [more than] than they used to,” Moreno responded. “Some of them have made it across, not a lot but some of them. Most of them, some are staying here. The ones that are outside here in the streets, they said it because they already started their paperwork for getting work permits here in Mexico, they want to stay in Mexico. They know that someone popped the bubble of their American dream and they’re staying here. 200 have been repatriated home voluntarily and we have deported more than 200. There have been like 236 detained by police and we send them through the immigration system.”
“Yeah. People here, the people from Tijuana are frustrated, if these people came here legally, if they went to our border and they started a work visa, a student visa, tourist visa there would be no problem,” Moreno explained.