Top Latin stars play for diversity at border concert

Top stars in Latin music pleaded on Saturday for tolerance in a concert from the US-Mexico border, taking a stand weeks ahead of a divisive US presidential election.

Thousands of people turned out in the walkway between San Diego and Tijuana for the show put together by Univision, the US Spanish-language network with a strong following among Hispanics, and its English-language, youth-oriented unit Fusion.

Called RiseUp As One, the concert was officially nonpartisan but came amid the heated rhetoric of Republican nominee Donald Trump, who has described Mexican immigrants as rapists and vowed to build a wall on the border.