US briefly shuts border crossing, uses tear gas on asylum seekers
2018-11-26 10:05:24 source：The Aljazeera
November 26, 2018
San Diego, California - US Customs and Border Protection temporarily closed all vehicle and pedestrian traffic at the major San Ysidro port of entry between Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, California on Sunday.
The agency made the announcement as hundreds of migrants and refugees marched towards the border in an attempt to put pressure on the US government to allow thousands of asylum seekers to enter the United States.
According to several journalists in Tijuana, US authorities used tear gas on migrants and refugees, including children, who approached the border fence near the Chaparral crossing. A small group breached the border, local media reported.
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