SAN DIEGO
– Toughened U.S. border enforcement has prompted substantially more illegal immigrants to hire smugglers to help them cross over from Mexico – and competition among sophisticated criminal networks for customers has spawned violence and sometimes death.
The evidence is abundant in border boomtowns, where human traffickers rustle together flocks of immigrants for the journey [...]

SanDiego California and Tjiuana, Rosarito Beach Baja California
New research shows that surfers and other beachgoers should take beach contamination warnings seriously, especially if they’re anywhere near the U.S.-Mexico border.
A two-year study by San Diego State University professor Rick Gersberg reaffirmed the accuracy of contamination warnings posted by county officials at the mouth of the Tijuana [...]

TIJUANA, Baja California
Jose Martinez and his family were bracing for a long wait at the San Ysidro border during this hectic weekend before Christmas.
Instead, their car was coasting along relatively fast yesterday morning. Within 15 minutes, they had driven past city hall and the cultural center and had merged onto Paseo de los [...]

SAN DIEGO
The U.S. Coast Guard came to the rescue Tuesday of two Mexican fishermen who had been adrift in the ocean near the Coronado Islands on their capsized boat for five days, authorities reported.
A helicopter crew out of the maritime agency’s San Diego station spotted the overturned skiff about 11:15 a.m. while patrolling [...]

Tijuana Baja California
TIJUANA – Just feet from the double border fence, the odd-shaped house on Calle Chapo Márquez always held some interesting international possibilities.
Drug traffickers saw it as just the place for an underground tunnel – until it was shut down by authorities. Now an arts group hopes the two-story structure will help them break [...]

Tijuana Officers killed!

San Diego California- Orlando Flores wants to fight fires for a living. Then again, he may want to fight terrorism.
It was the latter that brought Flores to a first-ever holiday hiring fair held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Old Town yesterday.
“This all sounds rather interesting,” Flores said after hearing the recruiting pitch. [...]