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U. S. agents fire tear gas at migrant caravan members as they reach Mexico border

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Children were screaming and coughing in the mayhem
TIJUANA, Mexico — Migrants approaching the U. S. border from Mexico were enveloped with tear gas Sunday after a few tried to breach the fence separating the two countries.
U. S. agents shot the gas, according to an Associated Press reporter on the scene. Children were screaming and coughing in the mayhem.
Honduran migrant Ana Zuniga, 23, said she saw migrants open a small hole in concertina wire at a gap on the Mexican side of a levee, at which point U. S. agents fired tear gas at them.
“We ran, but when you run the gas asphyxiates you more,” she told the AP while cradling her 3-year-old daughter Valery in her arms.
Mexico’s Milenio TV also showed images of several migrants at the border trying to jump over the fence. A few yards away on the U. S. side, shoppers streamed in and out of an outlet mall.

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