Teargas launched as migrants storm US border

US border agents have fired tear gas at migrants trying to rush the fence from the Mexico side.

Children were screaming and coughing in the mayhem, according to an Associated Press reporter on the scene

Central American migrants, mostly men, were seen trying to breach the border crossing between Tijuana and California.

US Border Patrol helicopters flew low overhead, while US agents held vigil on foot beyond the wire fence.

The Border Patrol office in San Diego said via Twitter that pedestrian crossings have been suspended at the San Ysidro port of entry at both the East and West facilities.

US President Donald Trump took to Twitter again today to express his displeasure with the caravans in Mexico.

“Would be very SMART if Mexico would stop the Caravans long before they get to our Southern Border, or if originating countries would not let them form (it is a way they get certain people out of their country and dump in U.S. No longer),” he wrote.

Additional personnel including more Border Patrol officers and Air and Marine agents were recently deployed to the San Diego area in anticipation for the Tijuana influx.