Many of them have been placed at points where migrants and smugglers are known to cross the border, especially in the mountains east of the city.

Nathaly Corona Duarte, 20, was found dead in Sonora, Mexico, outside Tijuana in September. In July 2024, a woman called Bentonville police to report that Corona was being beaten at an apartment. Police found Corona locked in the bathroom and Johan Lopez Castaneda,

Susano Cordoba, right, sells peanuts to truck drivers lining up to cross the border into the United States as tariffs against Mexico go into effect, Tuesday, March 4, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico. Financial news is displayed as Ppeople work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York,

The ongoing uncertainty over tariffs implemented on Mexico has led to a 30% halt in construction investment in the city of Tijuana and Northern Baja California.

Trucks line up to cross the border into the United States as tariffs against Mexico go into effect, Tuesday, March 4, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

An excessive flow of wastewater mixed with stormwater began entering the United States from Tijuana early Sunday morning, the US International Boundary and Water Commission reports. A team from the

Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre said she had renewed hope that the environmental crisis in South Bay will get federal help after Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin posted about it on social media.

The new administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has seemingly responded to Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre's letter urging federal action on the Tijuana River sewage crisis impacting southern San Diego County.

The tariffs that President Donald Trump imposed on Mexican products this week caught a majority of maquiladoras in Tijuana off-guard. Diana Reyes Herrera, president of the Tijuana Association of Human Resources,

"People suffer a lot when they are deported. Sometimes they don’t even speak Spanish. They’ve spent their whole lives in the United States."

There has been a dramatic drop in the number of people gathering at the U.S. border and trying to cross. Can it help Mexico stave off President Trump’s threatened tariffs?

On one side of the border, US soldiers unfurled barbed wire. On the other, Mexican soldiers monitored a gap in the border wall. Both had the