This municipal sports complex in the Mexican border city of Tijuana is packed with people. But it's been transformed from an athletic facility into something entirely different: a temporary home base for thousands of Central American migrants who say they have nowhere else to go.
Many say they want to seek asylum in the United States. But the waiting list at the nearby port of entry grows longer every day. It could be weeks or even months before they have a chance to cross the border and make their case.
US officials say limited resources and capacity mean they can only process a fraction of cases on the waiting list daily.
Meanwhile, human rights groups describe conditions inside this makeshift shelter where migrants are waiting as squalid and unsanitary. And things could get far worse in the coming days, with rain forecast to drench the area. Tijuana's mayor has deemed the situation a crisis and says his city needs more help from federal and international humanitarian officials to handle it.
Migrants say life is difficult here but the situations they're fleeing were far worse.
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