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Border crossings are off from last week’s highs as U.S. pins hopes for order on app

Federal agents made 6,300 arrests on Friday — the first day after Title 42 expired — and 4,200 Saturday. That’s sharply below the 10,000-plus on three days last week.

Chicago Sun-Times

As Title 42 ends in US, asylum seekers wait for relief on border

Advocates fear the US-Mexico border will become a ‘deportation mill’ as new policies narrow avenues for seeking asylum.

Al Jazeera

Migrants stuck at US gates as Covid-era immigration policy expires

As pandemic-era asylum restrictions ended early Friday, migrants in northern Mexico faced more uncertainties about a new online system for appointments to seek asylum in the U.S. Some migrants still waded apprehensively into the Rio Grande, defying officials who shouted for them to turn back, while elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico…

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Hundreds of migrants amass near US-Mexico wall with COVID ban set to end

Long lines of migrants have amassed this week in the border city of Tijuana, near the sprawling wall that divides Mexico from the United States, in the final days of a three-year long COVID-19 policy that blocked people crossing from seeking asylum.

Reuters

‘We only got errors’: migrants struggle with asylum claim app at US-Mexico border

The required app often doesn’t work – and if it does it may send families a thousand miles along the border for their appointments

The Guardian - US

Elderly man beaten to death in Mexico while delivering donations to poor families

Rudy Lazo, 79, moved to the US from El Salvador in the 1980s to start a family but would regularly drive 125 miles to Tijuana to deliver toys, food and clothes to help those less fortunate

Daily Mirror

Migrants say Border Patrol is keeping them between the border walls for days without food or shelter

SAN DIEGO — When a 33-year-old man from Afghanistan who had worked for the U.S. Army as a translator crossed onto U.S. soil from Tijuana, he thought he'd finally made it to a place where he would be safe.

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Is Baja safe? Should you drive? Things to know before you go

Homework is vital before travel in Baja California, especially if you're considering a road trip.

Los Angeles Times

Tijuana sewage isn't only in Imperial Beach waves. It's in the air. And San Diegans are breathing it

SAN DIEGO — Sewage pollution spilling over the border from Tijuana into the San Diego region not only threatens the health of surfers and swimmers but potentially those simply breathing the air.

Tribune News Service

Blink-182 postpones Tijuana gig and Latin American reunion tour due to drummer Travis Barker's finger surgery

The first leg of Blink-182's 2023 reunion tour has been pushed back to allow drummer Travis Barker to recover from finger surgery he underwent Tuesday after injuring one of his fingers — twice — during rehearsals for the tour.

Tribune News Service

Tijuana sewage pours through San Diego border canyons after recent pipe break

SAN DIEGO — Millions of gallons of raw sewage from Mexico are gushing into San Diego through two canyons along the border, according to federal officials. The spill is coming from at least two pump stations that were forced to shut down after a construction crew last week inadvertently ruptured…

Tribune News Service

Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker dislocates finger a month before band's reunion tour set to begin in Tijuana

Ouch! Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker has disclosed that he suffered a painful hand injury.

Tribune News Service

Some pharmacies in Mexico passing off fentanyl, meth as legitimate pharmaceuticals

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico — If you walk down the right side street, the offers are plentiful, even in broad daylight. Young men in plain T-shirts draw near and call out their wares: Pills. Cocaine. Guns.

Los Angeles Times

Tijuana, where the news kills: Mexican journalists under threat

In early 2022, in the Mexican city of Tijuana, two journalists were murdered less than a week apart. The killings of Margarito Martínez and Lourdes Maldonado represent the multiple dangers facing media professionals in Mexico, one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists. They are caught between…

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San Diego indictment charges Fresno men in killing of family of five in Tijuana

SAN DIEGO — Two Fresno men have been indicted in San Diego in connection with the slaying of a Tijuana family of five who previously lived in Fresno, including a mother and her three young children who were all U.S. citizens.

Tribune News Service

PedWest pedestrian border crossing to reopen next week after 2020 closure

TIJUANA, Mexico — The PedWest pedestrian border crossing, which has been closed for almost three years, will reopen Jan. 9 from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced.

Tribune News Service

Facing prison in Russia, Jehovah's Witnesses are waiting in San Diego to see if US will protect them

SAN DIEGO — Twice a week, Olga Ponomareva dresses in some of her nicest clothing to stand on a sidewalk in La Jolla Shores with a display of pamphlets about the Bible.

The Independent UK

Mexico draws more asylum-seekers despite grisly violence

Mexico has become the world’s third most popular destination for asylum-seekers after the United Sates and Germany, despite its widespread violence

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San Diego quietly prosecuting high-ranking members of ultra-violent Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación

SAN DIEGO — For the better part of a decade, federal prosecutions of Mexican drug cartel leaders carried out in San Diego have focused largely on the Sinaloa Cartel, and before that the Arellano Félix Organization, the two groups that have historically dominated the lucrative Tijuana-San Diego smuggling route.

The Independent UK

Migrants flee more countries _ regardless of US policies

A Trump-era ban on asylum that was granted a brief extension by Supreme Court Chief Justic John Roberts on Wednesday was one of the U.S. policies affecting migrants’ decisions to leave their homes

Tribune News Service

Confusion at the Tijuana border grows as expulsion policy remains in effect

SAN DIEGO — A Honduran woman, her four children and 2-year-old grandchild slept on a sidewalk near the San Ysidro Port of Entry on Tuesday night.

The Independent UK

Russians find asylum lifeline to US, but at a high price

The pastor of a San Diego-area church promises to arrange entry to the United States for Russian-speaking asylum-seekers through connections with U.S. officials and unnamed “opportunists” who guarantee customers' safety in Mexico

Daily Mirror

Warning of 'sociopathic' serial killer murdering women close to the US border

Authorities in Tijuana, Mexico, where the known killings have occurred, believe an American is crossing the border to carry out his sick plans with three deaths already linked

Tribune News Service

Requesting asylum is supposed to be free. But corruption in Tijuana means many have to pay

TIJUANA, Mexico — When a Russian family, threatened because of their opposition to the war in Ukraine, recently arrived in Tijuana, they tried every tactic they'd heard of to reach the United States and request asylum.

Tribune News Service

What could asylum processing look like after border expulsions end?

SAN DIEGO — Days before he was scheduled to go to the San Ysidro Port of Entry with his family to request asylum, a 7-year-old boy died in Tijuana.

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