The asylum seekers held firm, setting up a possible showdown. In an anticlimactic twist, about 50 asylum seekers were allowed past a gate controlled by Mexican officials to walk across a long bridge but were stopped at the entrance to the U.S. inspection facility at the other end. I don’t believe it.”The San Ysidro border inspection facility can hold about 300 people, according to Pete Flores, Customs and Border Protection’s San Diego field office director, suggesting the bottleneck may be short-lived. Asylum seekers didn’t appear to be thrown off the by the delay. “Fighting on is worth it,” she said as she camped out for chilly night outside the border crossing.

Source: National Post April 29, 2018 21:36 UTC