Like a scene from Mad Max

In anticipation of the approaching Central American migrant caravan, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that work began on Tuesday to "harden" the border crossing between Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego.

The work comes as the first wave of migrants arrived in Tijuana Monday; approximately 80 gay, lesbian and transgender asylum seekers who were bussed ahead by an anonymous organization after they say intolerant fellow asylum seekers were harassing them.

We were discriminated against, even in the caravan,” said Erick Dubon, 23, from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, who has been traveling with his boyfriend, Pedro Nehemias, 22. “People wouldn’t let us into trucks, they made us get in the back of the line for showers, they would call us ugly names.” -WaPo

"They experienced a lot of violence, including having the shelter they were staying in robbed and set on fire," said immigration lawyer Nicole Ramos. "They are vulnerable."

A second group of 360 migrants made it to Tijuana on Tuesday morning.

CBP closed four lanes at the heavily trafficked San Ysidro and Otay Mesa ports of entry in San Diego in order "to install and pre-position port hardening infrastructure equipment in preparation for the migrant caravan and the potential safety and security risk that it could cause," according to CBS News and PBS.

On Thursday, 1,100 Marines from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California were deployed to support border security, CBS San Diego affiliate KFMB reported. They were primarily tasked with installing concertina wire and pre-positioning jersey barriers, barricades and fencing.

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The thousands of Central American migrants left shelters in Guadalajara early Tuesday and were taken by bus to a highway tollbooth to wait for rides to their next destination. Most appeared intent on taking the Pacific coast route northward to the border city of Tijuana, which was still about 1,350 miles away. The migrants have come about 1,500 miles since they started out in Honduras around October 13. While the caravan previously averaged only about 30 miles a day, the migrants are now covering daily distances of 185 miles or more, partly because they are relying on hitchhiking rather than walking.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-13/feds-harden-san-diego-tijuana-border-lgbt-caravan-migrants-first-arrive

Family of a Parkland victim is suing the federal government – for neglecting to stop the massacre

The father of a 14-year-old who was killed in the Parkland massacre says that the federal government could have stopped the murderer – and he’s suing over it.

“Everybody failed”

Fred Guttenberg says that he got a phone call from an FBI agent who told him the government could have prevent the massacre but didn’t.

Jaime Guttenberg was one of the 17 people killed at the Parkland massacre.

The phone interaction between her father and the FBI agent is detailed in the legal filing against the government.

“Are you telling me that if the FBI did not make a mistake and did their job a month sooner, my daughter would still be alive today?” Guttenberg asked the unnamed agent.

“I’m afraid so, sir,” the agent reportedly responded.

The lawsuit cites several incidents where law enforcement failed to follow up on tips that evidenced a growing malice and tendency towards violence from the attacker.

In one incident, a woman who knows the attacker called an FBI tip line and told them, “I know he’s going to explode.” She even warned that he might commit a gun attack at his school, but no one followed up on the tip.

“Everybody failed, and this is going to be the shooting where we hold people accountable,” said Guttenberg at a meeting of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission.

The family is seeking damages but does not state an amount they are seeking.

Guttenberg was also a part of a lawsuit against the gun manufacturer who made the gun used in the massacre that took his daughter’s life.

Guttenberg also made headlines when he tried to shake the hand of Brett Kavanaugh after one of the hearings for his confirmation the Supreme Court, and Kavanaugh was ushered away by security.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/11/13/family-of-a-parkland-victim-is-suing-the-federal-government-for-neglecting-to-stop-the-massacre