Multiple videos were posted by those in attendance of the clashes breaking out and of police making their arrests.
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California is home to the largest Latino population in the U.S., and one of the crossings along the San Diego-Tijuana border is considered the busiest in the world.
After the rally, police in riot gear separated Trump supporters from the protesters.
Speaking later at a rally in Billings, Mont., Trump said 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, who has refused to endorse him, had “failed so badly”. On Wednesday, about 100 peaceful protestors showed up to a Southern California rally.
They declared the gathering an unlawful assembly soon after. Later, police used smoke bombs and pepper spray to disperse crowds and officers were pelted with rocks and other objects.
In another tense exchange, demonstrators lurched toward Trump supporters when they left the center after the rally, prompting police to shove back the crowd.
Waving U.S. and Mexican flags, more than 1,000 people turned out for anti-trump rally in San Diego, a city on the U.S.-Mexico border whose San Ysidro port of entry sees almost 300,000 people a day cross legally between the countries.
Someone grabbed a man’s “Make America Great Again” hat and burned it, according to San Diego Tribune.
Without mentioning their names, he cast California’s Democratic senators, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, as adversaries of farming who try to “play both sides”. “And I said, ‘What happened.’ I thought I had to wait a couple more weeks”, Trump said.
Earlier yesterday in Fresno, Trump denied that there was a major drought affecting the state, saying instead that when he becomes president he will “start opening up the water”. “That’s not who we are as Americans”.
“The problem with debating Bernie”, Trump noted, “he’s going to lose”. “We like Bernie…. He doesn’t have a chance and what he’s doing to her is incredible”. “That’s not the kind of strong, smart, steady leadership that we need and deserve”, Clinton said in a phone interview to CNN, a practice developed by Trump after he joined politics about a year ago. “That’s a little different than Bill Clinton I think”, he said.
Barack Obama won in 2009 with a landslide victory and now experts are suggesting that there is a very real possibility that Trump, despite all the xenophobic and sexist things he’s said in recent months, could do the same. Why?
Steve House, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party and an unbound delegate who confirmed his support of Trump to the AP, said he likes the billionaire’s background as a businessman. “It wasn’t that she was lying about me in every single corner”.
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“I want to debate him so badly”.
