A Caravan With Nearly 80 LGBTQ Migrants Has Arrived at the U.S.-Mexico Border

On Sunday night, a group that split off from the main Central American migrant caravans arrived in Tijuana — the Mexican city that shares a border with San Diego, California and serves as one of the primary entry ports to the United States.

According to journalist Jorge Nieto, the branched-off caravan is made up of nearly 80 LGBTQ people who said they faced so much discrimination traveling with the main caravan, they decided to band together and head for the border separately.

Nieto told INTO many of the LGBTQ migrants are staying at an Airbnb rental paid for by a group of American lawyers whose identity he was not able to immediately confirm. The queer and trans contingent arrived at a bus station on Sunday night, and is currently located just a few miles from the U.S. border. But almost immediately after arriving, residents of the Playas de Tijuana neighborhood where the migrants are being housed took issue and began arguing with them, telling them to leave. Read more via INTO