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Victor Clark Alfaro, a professor of Latin American studies at San Diego State University who lives in Tijuana, attributes the backlash to the way the caravan arrived suddenly with thousands pouring in. President Donald Trump, who said it harbored criminals and gang members and was planning an “invasion.”
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Central Americans have been coming to the city since the civil wars of the 80s in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala.
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Many of the Haitians, meanwhile, arrived with at least some resources after working in Brazil, though despite what the mayor said, they also stayed at shelters after taking an accidental route to Tijuana from their impoverished Caribbean homeland. The last group of Haitians moved out of the Padre Chava shelter in April.
Brazil and its neighbors took in the Haitians after that country’s 2010 earthquake.
buy canada goose jacket Then President Barack Obama shifted course in 2016 and started deporting Haitian arrivals. Many decided to stay in Mexico after the government gave them temporary transit permits and have since applied for Mexican residency. The majority in the Central American caravan so far have refused Mexico’s repeated offers of residency or asylum and vowed to cross the border. Some can be found waiting tables and worshipping at congregations that have even added services in Creole. buy canada goose jacket
They opened beauty parlors, shops and restaurants, like Kriskapab Baborijinal, a bright blue and red cafe that is busy serving Mexicans and Haitians daily dishes of coconut rice, mashed plantains and goat stew.
In the window is a sign for the Association canada goose outlet vip of the Defense of Haitian canada goose outlet toronto factory Migrants. Philocles Julda, 44, is one of 11 Haitian immigrants who started the group a year ago to give the community a place to help itself with everything from Spanish lessons to paying medical bills. when he first arrived to Tijuana and still wishes he was earning dollars, but said he has been able to make a life here. He works at a factory.
“I feel for the migrants who are arriving from other countries just like we did,” he said. “But you do adapt.”
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“We have been looking for workers for quite a while,” canada goose outlet authentic said Alejandrina canada goose outlet store calgary Yanez, who works in human resources at a factory that makes warehouse storage racks for Costco, Home Depot and other international companies.
Yanez went to the Padre Chava shelter Wednesday to see if any migrants were interested in jobs that pay about $100 a week.