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Mexico cancels Amber Alert for California siblings found safe after mother is shot dead
The California siblings, ages 2 and 6, had gone missing on Sunday night when, according to family and friends, their mother was shot and killed in Tijuana. → Read More
Network of volunteers helping Ukrainians cross into California
Katia Lolia said she couldn’t believe how simple it was for her Ukrainian mother and sister to obtain humanitarian visas and enter the U.S. through Ped West, one of the pedestrian crossings at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. → Read More
Drug lord known as ‘The Egg’ secretly extradited to California
Just past midnight early Tuesday morning, Juan Gerardo Treviño, a drug lord nicknamed “El Huevo,” or “The Egg,” was extradited from Mexico to the United States, according to the Associated Press. → Read More
Mexican cartels created generation of drug addicts in border cities like Tijuana, expert says
Experts say drug cartels decided to start selling and unloading their products on the streets of Tijuana, creating a new source of revenue while leading thousands to drug addiction. → Read More
Migrants willing to climb 4,000 foot California mountain to get into U.S.
U.S. Border Patrol agents have seen a sharp increase in human smuggling in recent months within the Otay Mountain Wilderness area southeast of San Diego. → Read More
More and more Californians turn to Tijuana for affordable housing
With housing prices in Southern California skyrocketing, many U.S. Citizens and legal residents are heading south of the border in search of an affordable place to live. → Read More
BREAKING: Predawn raid clears 380 migrants from Tijuana campsite
Around 4:30 Sunday morning, more than 100 police officers and members of Mexico’s National Guard descended on a makeshift campsite just south of the San Ysidro Port of Entry and cleared everyone from the area. → Read More
Tijuana’s positivity rate soars to 74% with some residents waiting 17 hours for COVID-19 tests
The COVID-19 positive test-rate in Tijuana has spiked to 74 percent according to Óscar Efrén Zazueta Fierro, head of Baja California’s epidemiology department. → Read More
California border businesses affected by COVID-19 pandemic still waiting for rebound in sales
The hope for a quick economic rebound has not materialized since border restrictions were lifted if you believe shopkeepers who work along San Ysidro Boulevard or at an outlet mall on the west side of the San Ysidro Port of Entry. → Read More
Ambassador for deported veterans in Mexico finally gets to come home to U.S.
A veterans rights activist, whose life is deeply rooted in the military was finally allowed to cross the border from Mexico into California after almost 20 years. → Read More
DHS: US faces ‘heightened threat’ amid holiday season, 4th warning this year
The U.S. faces a “heightened threat environment” from domestic extremists and people inspired by foreign terrorist groups with the approach of the holiday season, the Department of Homeland Security warned Wednesday. → Read More
EPA pledges $630 million to prevent Mexican raw sewage from flowing into California
The Environmental Protection Agency is pledging $630 million to help clean up and prevent raw sewage from flowing into the United States from Mexico between San Diego and Tijuana. → Read More
Idea to remove part of border barrier for binational park gaining momentum
Jim Brown is sharing his concept that would remove portions of the border barrier between San Diego and Tijuana while creating a park where people from both sides of the border could gather, meet and congregate year-round. → Read More
Border restrictions extended to at least October 21, White House official says
The essential travel restrictions instituted in March 2020 have been extended for at least another month according to Jeff Zients, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator. → Read More
Amazon to employ 1,500 from both sides of the border at new California facility
Amazon has built a fulfillment center in Otay Mesa southeast of downtown San Diego along the border that’s more than 3-million square feet, bigger than the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. It will employ 1,500 people from both sides of the border. → Read More
Deported U.S. veterans allowed north of the border briefly for COVID-19 vaccinations
The people who run the U.S. Deported Veterans Resource Center in Tijuana believe there are at least 1,000 military deportees living in some 40 countries, at least several dozen in the Mexican state of Baja California. On Wednesday morning, some of them were allowed to return to the U.S. if only for a brief period of time. They were given permission to cross the border through the San Ysidro Port… → Read More
How CBP boats work to catch human, drug smugglers off California coast
With loud sirens and flashing lights, marine interdiction agents pursue anything from jet skis to a large cabin cruisers out in the Pacific Ocean hoping to curtail human and drug smuggling into the U.S. These agents are part of the Air and Marine Branch within Customs and Border Protection based in San Diego. And they have been busier than ever this year. → Read More
No stranger to resettling Afghan refugees, California agency prepares for influx
The International Rescue Committee in San Diego has been resettling Afghan refugees for a few weeks now, but it expects a lot more in the coming weeks as the State Department is planning on bringing at least 22,000 more to the United States. → Read More
Border Patrol reports 31 migrant deaths so far this year in California wilderness
There's not much to Ocotillo Wells but a gas station, a few mobile homes and a desert museum that is closed most of the time. The community is wedged between Highways 8 and 98 just as you drop from the mountains into the Imperial Valley desert, about 100 miles east of San Diego. → Read More
Mexico’s foreign relations office lobbies U.S. senators to reevaluate border restrictions
Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Relations, Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón says if the United States doesn't reopen the southern border soon, it needs to reevaluate what essential travel restrictions mean. He also stated that his office has been lobbying U.S. Senators like New Mexico's, Ben Ray Luján, to exert pressure on the White House to lift restrictions. → Read More