(VOVWORLD) - US reopened its border crossing on Monday at the San Ysidro port of entry between San Diego and Mexico’s Tijuana following hours of shutdown.
 Barbed wire fence is erected along the US-Mexico border. (Photo: Reuters) |
Tensions on the border have been rising for weeks as a caravan of thousands of migrants from Central America approached the US border. The border checkpoint was closed to all traffic on Sunday after a crackdown by Mexican police on migrants who were protesting the slow pace with which the US was processing asylum requests.
An average of 20,000 pedestrians cross from Mexico to the US at San Ysidro each day, making it the busiest point along the border.