Mike Brest, Daily Caller, December 27, 2018

The mayor of Tijuana, Mexico, revealed during an interview with a documentary filmmaker on Thursday just how much the migrant caravan is costing the city each day.

Juan Manuel Gastelum, 64, spoke to Charlie Minn and {snip} announced that the caravan is “hitting us hard. It’s costing us 550,000 pesos a day.” In American dollars, that is the equivalent of approximately $28,000.

In an interview with Milenio Television last month, Gastelum said, “Tijuana is a city of immigrants, but we don’t want them in this way. It was different with the Haitians, they carried papers, they were in order. It wasn’t a horde, pardon the expression.”

A fellow Tijuana official, Genaro Lopez, {snip} reported that at the beginning of this month there were 6,200 migrants temporarily staying in their city.

During Lopez’s second appearance on [Tucker] Carlson’s show this month, he revealed that there have been 280 arrests for offenses ranging from drug possession to public intoxication to breaking and entering.