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Garrett Harris 12:36 a.m., June 19
Tijuana
Incursions on the rise, says Border Patrol
Two vehicles with 35 people make attempt to cross
Faced with huge budget cuts at the midpoint of their fiscal year, Border Patrol agents from the Imperial Beach station (and other stations along the border) are doubling up in many of the patrol vehicles ...
Baja prostitution on the increase this summer
Warm weather, more tourist clientele
The warm weather and improved tourist climate have reportedly attracted prostitutes to Rosarito, Ensenada, and Tijuana, according to a recent report in Tijuana’s daily Frontera. The three cities, coastal and vacation-oriented, represent the axis of ...
Border Patrol reports bands of Gypsies crossing from Mexico
Canada said to be their destination
Since 2010, more than 2200 Romanians have come into California from Mexico illegally and surrendered to the first U.S. Border Patrol agent they saw, according to Border Patrol statistics and accounts. Many of them surrendered ...
Tijuana Bike Fest welcomed by Baja tourism secretary
Three days of rumbling at the bullring
As many as 8000 motorcyclists are expected to converge this weekend at the Plaza Monumental bullring in Playas de Tijuana for the third Tijuana Bike Fest. The three-day event is scheduled to get under way ...
Tijuana trucking disasters facilitated by residents
Land and sand co-opted out of necessity
Residents of a modest Tijuana neighborhood are as much to blame as the out-of-control tractor-trailer trucks that have repeatedly damaged or destroyed homes, wrecked cars, and claimed at least one life during the past two ...
Extreme poverty on the increase in Tijuana
Cardboard houses, one meal a day
Growing unemployment, persistent under-employment, and a steady influx of deportations from the U.S. have left the Catholic Church in Tijuana hard-pressed to meet the needs of the poor who turn to it for help, according ...
Border sewage plant logs two violations since February
Far fewer than the norm
The border sewage plant that treats Mexican sewage, which the International Boundary and Water Commission oversees, has had two violations of treatment standards since February — far fewer than preceding years. One of the violations ...
Tijuana busload of student passengers robbed at gunpoint
People trembling with fear
Three armed thieves boarded a Tijuana city bus bound for an outlying campus of the Autonomous University of Baja California on Tuesday, May 21, and robbed about 50 terrified passengers, most of them students. The ...
Robbery suspect caught for Tijuana police
Perpetrator becomes victim
Angry business owners came to the rescue of the victims of a robbery in downtown Tijuana on May 15, pummeling an alleged thief on the face and head and holding him down until police arrived. ...
Wounded baby dolphin rescued in Tijuana
Picked up by SeaWorld later
Swimmers and lifeguards at Playas de Tijuana saved a stranded dolphin on the evening of Tuesday, May 14, as it floundered about in the beach shallows. According to 14-year-old beach-goer Azul Garibaldi, the youthful delfin ...
