A group of Central American migrants arrived at the U.S. consulate in Tijuana, Mexico on Tuesday and demanded that the Trump administration expedite their asylum claims immediately or pay them $50,000 each to return to their home countries, the San Diego Tribune reported Tuesday.
The migrants, who arrived in Tijuana one month ago as part of a massive caravan of more than 6,000 people, also demanded an end to deportations.
When asked how the group of roughly 100 migrants decided to demand $50,000 per person, organizer Alfonso Guerrero Ulloa of Honduras, told the Tribune that they settled on that figure collectively.
“It may seem like a lot of money to you,” Ulloa said. “But it is a small sum compared to everything the United States has stolen from Honduras.” —>
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