News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Cubans flee detention site in Tijuana, cross into U.S.

9 men being held at Otay Mesa jail
By Onell R. Soto
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

September 13, 2006

A group of Cubans awaiting possible deportation from Mexico broke out of a detention facility in Tijuana last weekend and showed up hours later at the San Ysidro border crossing, where they requested political asylum.

Ten Cuban men broke through a fence at the detention center sometime after 10 p.m. Saturday, Mexican officials said. They were accompanied by a man from Guyana.

Nine of the Cubans made it to San Ysidro and requested asylum, they said. It's unclear what happened to the other Cuban.

U.S. officials confirmed that the Cubans are in local custody but declined comment about asylum.

posted by missionaryman | 9:23 AM

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