Mexico struggling with Russian asylum-seekers trying to enter US through Tijuana'; Russian migrants told to vacate area just south of border crossing in Tijuana, and related stories

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Mexico struggling with Russian asylum-seekers trying to enter US through Tijuana"

Mexican officials in the northern border city of Tijuana are struggling to deal with a growing number of Russian refugees flying into the country and setting up tent encampments near the California border.

Russian migrants who have fled their homeland amid the war that Vladimir Putin is waging against Ukraine have been living south of the San Ysidro Port of Entry over the past couple weeks. San Ysidro is the busiest port of entry in the Western Hemisphere and connects Tijuana, Baja California, to San Diego, California. Migrants from Ukraine and Russia have increasingly flown into Tijuana, then approached the port of entry to claim asylum because they cannot fly directly into the U.S.

Unlike Ukrainians, whom the Biden administration has allowed U.S. border officials to admit into the country as asylum-seekers, Russian asylum-seekers are being denied entry and forced to wait indefinitely in Tijuana.

One Russian migrant identified as Mike told Border Report that he and his wife fled their home seeking "freedom" in the U.S.

“It’s Putin’s conflict, not me. Russian people are good people,” Mike said. --->READ MORE HERE

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Russian migrants told to vacate area just south of border crossing in Tijuana:

The city of Tijuana is trying to evict migrants, mostly Russians, from an area just south of the San Ysidro Port of Entry where they have been staying for the better part of a week.

Late Wednesday, it gave the migrants letters in both Russian and Spanish, telling them it was time to leave the area and go to shelters where they can stay free of cost.

The letters go on to say the city supports migrants’ right to asylum in the United States, but that it can’t allow them to remain on a “federal and international zone between Mexico and the United States.”

“Officer says Ukraine yes, Russians no,” said Mike a Russian migrant.

Mike told Border Report he arrived at the border crossing on Tuesday and remains hopeful the U.S. will allow him and his wife to cross the border in the near future.

“United States is freedom, freedom,” he said. --->READ MORE HERE

Follow links below to related stories:

Russians are blocked at US border, Ukrainians are admitted

‘We had no choice’: over 8,000 Russians seek US refuge in six-month period

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