And Mexicali ... border — was a hotbed for illegal crossings in the late 1990s and early 2000s after a high-profile San Diego crackdown called Operation Gatekeeper shifted immigration flows east ...

Mexicali, home to roughly a million people, is a prosperous city and a busy border crossing with the United States. Local industry is mainly agriculture, food processing plants and assembly-for ...

Unlike Mexicali to the east, people driving into Tijuana don’t have to face COVID-19 screenings at the border. (Salvador Rivera/Border Report) As for Tijuana, a much bigger city to the west ...