The Latest Breaking News from Tijuana

Clown performer’s 15-year-old son shot dead as he entertained children’s party

Osvaldo Abdiel was killed while waiting for his dad to finish a show in Tijuana

The Independent UK · Jun 16, 2023

The mayor of a Mexican border city says she will live at an army base for safety

The Tijuana city government said threats to Mayor Montserrat Caballero and bodies discovered in a truck were tied to her administration's results in weapons seizures and arrests of violent suspects.

WEKU · Jun 14, 2023

Mayor of Mexican border city of Tijuana to live at army base after receiving threats

The mayor of the Mexican border city of Tijuana says she has decided to live at an army base for her own safety, after she received threats

The Independent UK · Jun 13, 2023

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 · May 15, 2023

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 · May 12, 2023

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…

France 24 · May 12, 2023

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 · May 9, 2023

‘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 · May 6, 2023

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 · May 3, 2023

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.

Tribune News Service · Apr 13, 2023