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Arab-American YouTuber Jad Manon reported on Arab immigration into the U.S. from Mexico in an August 1, 2024 video. He showcased the process Arabs must go through in order to cross into the United States, both legally and illegally. He explained that Arabs who are caught crossing into the U.S. illegally can ask for asylum status, while Mexicans are sent back to prison in Mexico. Since October 2023, border agents caught 93 suspected terrorists attempting to cross the southern border. Most recently, Omar Shehada, a Palestinian from the West Bank whose name appears on a terror watchlist was caught at...

Who remembers the Berlin Wall and why it went up? Who remembers that East German guards shot men and women trying to jump the fence? I remember. Unfortunately, the mayor of Tijuana, Mexico played the wall card and chose the wrong wall to talk about.This is the story:Tijuana's mayor took a jab at US migrant policies by recently installing a 3-ton gray concrete slab of the Berlin Wall just feet from America's latest stretch of border wall."May this be a lesson to build a society that knocks down walls and builds bridges," reads the inscription on the Cold War relic...

Some 555 days after Tijuana spilled millions of gallons of raw sewage onto San Diego's otherwise environmentally regulated beaches, the local Board of Supervisors, which is nearly all Democrat, has up and taken notice.According to the local Times of San Diego:San Diego County supervisors unanimously approved a proclamation Tuesday declaring a state of emergency due to pollution and sewage flowing across the U.S.-Mexico border. Board Chairwoman Nora Vargas and Vice Chair Terra Lawson-Remer introduced the proclamation, which asks Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Joe Biden to issue similar declarations, “suspend red tape that may hinder response efforts, and expedite access...

He was told 'the border is open' Bradley reported, "AZ: 400+ migrants crossed into Yuma this morning – The ones I talked to say they are from Moldova, Russia & Cuba. One Moldovan man told us he took an Uber from Tijuana to this drop off point. He says he was told that 'the border is open."

Hundreds of Mexican soldiers were sent to Ciudad Juarez Friday while violence sparked in the border town near Texas may be linked to a series of incidents in Tijuana and the surrounding area. The situation began in Ciudad Juarez with a prison face-off between members of two rival cartels, which caused a riot and shootouts that left 11 people dead, most of them civilians, authorities said. The violence then apparently moved west. The U.S. Consulate in Tijuana warned American citizens late Friday to avoid the area, while acknowledging that officials are “aware of reports of multiple vehicle fires, roadblocks, and...

TIJUANA (Border Report) — COVID-19 cases in Mexican border cities such as Tijuana and Mexicali have continued on the upswing heading into the end of April and the beginning of May, indicating a third wave of contagions, as predicted, has begun to take shape. According to Baja California health officials, recent statistics show 16.5 out of every 100,000 residents now have the virus... According to Pérez Rico, the third COVID-19 wave in the state will intensify next week and into early May. The city of Tijuana has seen 3,566 COVID-19 related deaths since the start of the pandemic. Four people...

Officials in San Diego suburb attribute rise in cases to legal crossings from nearby Tijuana, one of Mexico’s hardest-hit cities Hospitals in this border city south of San Diego are struggling to cope with a large number of Covid-19 patients, an influx they attribute to legal crossings from nearby Tijuana, one of Mexico’s cities hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Health-care nonprofit Scripps Health says it already is near capacity for patients critically ill with Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, at its Chula Vista hospital. Sharp HealthCare, which owns Chula Vista’s largest hospital, had to turn away ambulances...

Does Google Have Hillary Clinton’s Emails? Court Authorizes Subpoena to Find Out It Took Coronavirus for the Veterans Affairs to House Homeless Vets in Tents Mexican Drug Tunnel Leads to U.S. Warehouse Run by Illegal Aliens Trump’s Winning Coronavirus Bet Does Google Have Hillary Clinton’s Emails? Court Authorizes Subpoena to Find Out If you use Gmail, you know that Google holds your messages seemingly forever. Could it be doing the same with Hillary Clinton’s elusive emails? We’ll find out. We have served a subpoena, authorized by a DC federal court, on Google to produce all Clinton emails from a...

The Secretary of Health in Baja California is reporting its first three coronavirus-related deaths in the state. One is an unidentified 70-year-old man from Mexicali, which is located about 120 miles southeast of San Diego. He died Monday and reportedly had a history of diabetes, hypertension and obesity according to Dr. Alonso Oscar Perez Rico, Baja California’s Secretary of Health. The man died four days after being admitted to a hospital displaying symptoms of COVID-19. The other two deaths are both 40-year old men... During the last 14 days, there have been 43 confirmed cases in Baja California, about 3%...

A year has passed since two Central American caravans arrived in Tijuana last fall... everything has changed... Today, few Central American asylum seekers have been able to make it to Tijuana. In the last 12 months, a combination of US deterrence policy and a massive Mexican immigration crackdown has destroyed northward movement towards Tijuana... Tijuana looks much different today than it did a year ago. When the caravans first arrived, the international media descended on the city in a swarm; camera flashes lit up shelters. Now, the city has mostly recovered from the chaos of last fall. Migration from the...

For nearly a decade, Diana Ramirez hadn't been able to take a book home from the San Diego Public Library. Her borrowing privileges were suspended, she was told, because of a mere $10 in late fees, an amount that had grown to $30 over the years. Ramirez, who is now 23 and stays in Tijuana with her mother, attends an alternative education program in San Diego that helps students earn high school diplomas. To her, the debt she owed to the library system was an onerous sum. Even worse, it removed a critical resource from her life. "I felt disappointed...

MEXICO CITY — Mexican officials are carrying out the Trump administration’s immigration agenda across broad stretches of the border, undercutting the Mexican government’s promises to defend migrants and support their search for a better life...(snip) ...Officials inside the administration of Mexico’s new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, have called his stance on migrants a strategic decision not to anger President Trump. He doesn’t believe he can change Mr. Trump’s mind, they contend. Furthermore, the officials say, Mr. López Obrador has not wanted to jeopardize other aspects of the deeply interconnected relationship between the two countries, ranging from elaborate regional trading...

To prevent potential mass attempts to rush for the border fence to cross to the U.S., as happened in Tijuana late last year.

Mayor of Mexico border city dubbed 'Tijuana Trump' blasts caravan migrants, calls them 'bums' and 'pot smokers' Several weeks ago a Mexican federal judge ordered Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum to stop being hostile to migrants on the caravan that started in Honduras. The ruling bans Tijuana officials from “issuing statements contrary to the protection of and respect for migrant people." Gastelum, a 65-year-old attorney, is not listening. Called “Tijuana Trump,” Gastelum repeatedly has expressed his objections to the caravan and called for its organizers to be identified and prosecuted for taking advantage of desperate people and putting their lives...

Two U.S. immigrant rights attorneys and two journalists who have worked closely with members of a migrant caravan in Tijuana said they had been denied entry into Mexico in recent days after their passports were flagged with alerts by an unknown government.

The Trump administration began implementing a new hard-line immigration policy by sending a single asylum-seeker from Central America back to Tijuana, Mexico, to await his assigned court date later this year in San Diego. The first asylum-seeker to be returned to Mexico was a Honduran man identified as Carlos Catarlo Gomez. He appeared confused and scared by the throng of reporters waiting for him Tuesday on the Mexican side of the San Ysidro border crossing, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was whisked away by Mexican authorities. Officially dubbed "Migrant Protection Protocols," the policy was announced by Homeland Security...

Five weeks after a Central American caravan arrived in Tijuana last November, a majority of those stranded in the city were male, young, Honduran — and still hoping to cross to the United States, according to a newly released survey from the International Organization for Migration. The report found that 68 percent of respondents “continue to contemplate and search for the most suitable way, from their perspectives, to enter the United States.” Another 22 percent “prefer to seek employment in Mexico,” it stated. Only a small proportion, four percent, were considering the possibility of seeking asylum...{snip} But the questionnaire also...

amika Capone thought she was making a smart call by traveling to Mexico for bariatric surgery. Her doctor had urged her to have the procedure to reduce her out-of-control weight and blood pressure. But her husband's health insurance would not cover the $17,500 bill. After a friend got the surgery in Tijuana for $4,000, Capone decided to do the same.

The cartel-related drug violence in Tijuana continues to rage into 2019 with 18 killed in as many hours this past Monday and Tuesday, leaving at least 68 dead in the new year. The figures were provided by the state attorney general’s office, according to local reports. A total of eight victims were also found wounded during the time period. Tijuana set a new record for homicides in a single year in 2018 with 2,508 thanks to an alarming number of cartel-related murders–most tied to the street-level distribution of drugs. This violence continues despite numerous measures taken by Mexico City to...

“We can all play games but a wall is a necessity," he said, via a pool report. "If you don't have the wall, it doesn't matter. A drone isn’t stopping a thousand people running through." Trump said. “We gotta get the politics out of this and go back to common sense. They say it’s a medieval solution. It’s true. It’s medieval because it worked then and it works even better now."