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Blocker is strategy and communication adviser for the San Diego-Tijuana Smart Border Coalition. He lives in La Jolla. “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, Saint Teresa of Calcutta We provide this platform for community commentary free of charge. Thank you to all the Union-Tribune subscribers whose support makes our journalism possible. If you are not a subscriber, please consider becoming one today. After I moved to San Diego 21 years ago, my friend Teresa Doyle gradually connected me with an epic three-generation story of mothers doing small and great things with great love. As a minor byproduct of these mothers’ lives, I found myself for a time stuffing stacks of donated day-old Bread & Cie loaves up to the roof of the back seat of my car for delivery to a church meal program in Southcrest. Here is a handful of glimpses into this mothers’ saga stretching over a century. ....
Print Rooney is managing director of the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative, George W. Bush Presidential Center. He lives in Dallas. De La Fuente is executive director of the San Diego-Tijuana Smart Border Coalition. He lives in La Jolla. It’s a mistake to consider border security as something that happens only at the border itself. Rather, policymakers and the public should think in terms of a series of perimeters, keeping in mind that, the farther away from our physical border we can push the outermost perimeter, the greater our security. The sense of crisis at our southern border underscores one reason why our national immigration debate is so intractable: We are unable to agree on a definition of border security. ....
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. For the record: 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 ....
Print All week, we will be publishing essays from San Diegans about last week’s rioting by a mob incited by President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. We must vow to never let this happen again Shelley Zimmerman is San Diego’s former chief of police. She retired in 2018 after 35 years with the San Diego Police Department. During the terrible events of Sept. 11, 2001, and grieving for all the lives lost, I remember being thankful the people’s house, the Capitol building, that beautiful dome, was not destroyed and still stood proudly. I never could have imagined that almost two decades later, its security would be breached not by foreign terrorists but by domestic terrorists intent on disrupting the work of our nation. ....