Border Report: Deadly Crash Linked to Human Smuggling Operation
Locals aren’t happy about new surveillance, a bill in Congress puts EPA in charge of sewage reduction and more in our biweekly roundup of border news.
The U.S. and Mexico border fence in San Diego / Photo by Adriana Heldiz
One of the deadliest highway crashes involving migrants crossing into the United States killed 13 people last week.
The incident has been linked to a human smuggling operation.
Surveillance video showed a Ford Expedition and Chevrolet Suburban drove through a section of the border wall that had been cut away near Imperial Valley Tuesday morning, the Associated Press reports.
Larroque are co-chairs of the San Diego-Tijuana Smart Border Coalition. Williams lives in La Jolla. Larroque lives in Coronado.
At first glance, it looked like a bombshell headed for the San Diego-Tijuana region and other communities along the border: a federal proposal to raise the frequency of border inspections to a level that could fatally slow cross-border movement.
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11:37 AM, Mar. 03, 2021An editing error in this column was fixed on March 3.
Heaven knows events and decisions far from our region have repeatedly delivered shocks to San Diego County’s 60-mile boundary with Mexico and our eight U.S. and Mexican crossings. For instance, late last spring we suffered massive traffic back-ups in Tijuana. Passenger vehicle wait times in Ready and All-Traffic lanes reached four, five and even eight hours. The Securing
Vázquez is the executive director of Organizing For Progress and is a transfronterizo who lives in the San Diego and Tijuana region.
In states along the U.S.-Mexico border, one thing that is very clear is that local and state governments are on the same page when it comes to awareness of binational economies in their bordering cities. The states of Baja California and California, for example, have a solid history of working in partnership to improve their ever more interdependent economies.
However, when it comes to the views of the local and federal governments, what we see rather is a very clear disconnect between them.
Published February 26, 2021 •
Updated on February 27, 2021 at 12:12 pm
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Border crossing delays have cost the San Diego-Tijuana megaregion s economy at least $3.4 billion and 88,000 jobs as well as becoming a huge environmental concern, a report released Friday at the San Diego Association of Governments Borders Committee found.
The report, Impacts of Border Delays at California Baja California Land Ports of Entry, looks at one year 2016 and details how border delays harm the economy and environment on both sides of the border.
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