Homeless Evicted From the Tijuana River Channel Claim Police Robbed Them The Fulano Forum
go to original August 8, 2013

A deportee peeks out of the hole he dug into a bank of the Tijuana river. These types of gopher hole-like homes pock the river's banks, built by deportees with no place else to go. (Adrian Florido/Fronteras Desk)

TIJUANA - Migrants evicted from the Tijuana River channel had been robbed by the municipal police during the operation where they were displaced from the area.

Bernardo Rodríguez, an immigrant for Veracruz, said that the moment he was deported from the United States, he was robbed by the Tijuana police.

"My relatives had sent me US$100 and the police searched me and took the money. It is an injustice, we are tired of all this, what we want is justice for all countrymen who come from far away. They treat us poorly, we want that to change. Don't they get a salary, or what? We here are also workers. Who takes care of us, the workers or the police? Who are the thieves?" he said.

He asked that the raids stop.

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