A migrant involved in the unsuccessful attempt to bust through the U.S.-Mexico border over the weekend spoke with the media about how the experience has impacted his plans – bandaged head to toe and hobbling around on crutches.
The defiant teen from El Salvador told Fox News he’s getting into America one way or another, though he still thinks he deserves asylum.
Stop the madness…tear gas doesn’t break your leg & injure your head for God’s sake!🤪🤦♀️
I can’t.🙄 pic.twitter.com/p939yWZg7e
— #MAGA MICHELLE (@Trump454545) November 27, 2018
“I’m going to cross the United States, whatever it is, with these crutches. These crutches will not stop me from crossing that fence illegally or legally,” the teen said through an interpreter. “But I do not intend to cross illegally if I am hopeful they will give me the papers because the first thing is to ask for political asylum in the United States to enter legally.”
The man stumbled around the Tijuana migrant complex with news crews and a crowd in tow, his head encased in a large helmet-sized gauze wrap. The man’s right arm was also bandaged to his elbow, along with his left leg in a bandage to his knee, as he toted a backpack and conversed with reporters.
The interview solicited little sympathy from folks online.
“Stop the madness … tear gas doesn’t break your leg & injure your head for God’s sake!” #MAGA MICHELLE posted to Twitter. “I can’t.”
“I don’t like to see anyone injured but Good Lord, the ancient Egyptians could have wrapped 1000 mummies with the gauze used on that one kid,” Danny Campo wrote. “Come on man!”
“Well shit happens when you’re breaking the law,” Katwoman75 added. “Perhaps if he wasn’t throwing rocks or with those doing so he wouldn’t have gotten hurt when they fled from the law.”
“That’s not from (tear) gas, that’s from acting like an idiot,” Bernard Kerik posted.
Others at the Tijuana camp are starting to realize that entering the United States isn’t as easy as they thought it would be, and many are now taking the Mexican government up on its offer to get them home.
MSNBC’s Gadi Schwartz explained that the vast majority of those in the migrant caravans are adult men who were sold a line about how easy it is to get into America, and the plethora of jobs programs waiting for them when they do.
Schwartz walked viewers by the two food lines at the facility, one for women and children, and another far longer line for single men.
“Most of the members of this caravan … the line for single men you can see stretches much longer, as it does every single morning. Many of these men tell us they heard in Honduras that it would be easy to cross into the United States,” Schwartz said.
“Some of them told us they heard there were programs, work programs, that they would be eligible for. And so now that they’re here in Tijuana and they have realized that it’s very difficult to get into the United States, especially after what happened Sunday, some of them are deciding to turn back,” he said.
Schwartz reports humanitarian workers set up a tent at the camp to help people return to Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador and 81 people signed up on Monday.
“The country of Mexico is also extending humanitarian visas to a lot of these migrants, as well as putting them up into jobs,” he said.
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