US shuts border post as migrants try to cross from Mexico: official

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AFP Tijuana
Last Updated : Nov 26 2018 | 3:10 AM IST

US officials closed a border crossing in southern California on Sunday after hundreds of migrants tried to breach a fence from the Mexican city of Tijuana, US authorities announced.

The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) office in San Diego, California, said on Twitter that it had closed both north and south access to vehicle traffic at the San Ysidro border post, before also suspending pedestrian crossings.

The incident took place only three days after US President Donald Trump threatened to close the "whole border" with Mexico if "it gets to a level where we're going to lose control or people are going to start getting hurt."

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First Published: Nov 26 2018 | 3:10 AM IST

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