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Border wall at La Rumorosa
Border Wall / Jacumba

Border wall at La Rumorosa

Just south of the tiny town of Ocotillo, California, and high up in the rugged mountains, a barbed wire fence marks the boundary between San Diego and Baja California.

Feeling powerless: one deported migrant’s story from Tijuana
Migrant Stories

Feeling powerless: one deported migrant’s story from Tijuana

Jose Luis Cisneros’s face still bears the marks of the violence he suffered more than 10 years ago. Cisneros, now in his mid-50s, spent 20 years working as a migrant farm worker in Washington, Oregon and California, crossing back and forth following the harvests. But Cisneros’s life changed dramatically in […]

Sunrise on Tecate Peak
Tecate Peak

Sunrise on Tecate Peak

The border wall snakes up to the top of Tecate Peak.

Binational Friendship Garden in Tijuana-San Diego gets some new salvia plants
Border Art

Binational Friendship Garden in Tijuana-San Diego gets some new salvia plants

Since 2007, Dan Watman has had a dream. To use the natural environment and common friendship as a means to overcome the fear and paranoia for which the United States border wall is our most potent and odious symbol. What better way, then, but to cultivate a garden of native […]

Sad separation: dad stuck in San Diego after his green card is stolen
Tijuana Photo of the Day

Sad separation: dad stuck in San Diego after his green card is stolen

Hector Hernandez was eager to have a family picture with his wife and girls. Rosana Gonzalez, not so much. When Hector Hernandez was robbed, his green card was stolen and he ended up stranded in San Diego away from his family. He normally lives in Tijuana with his wife Rosana […]

Fifteen years of waiting: family meets at Friendship Park
Friendship Park

Fifteen years of waiting: family meets at Friendship Park

This couple travelled from La Paz, Baja California Sur to visit with their children and grandchildren who now live in Chula Vista and Tijuana. The grandparents haven’t seen their Chula Vista family in 15 years. Grandson Jack, who lives with his dad and uncle in Tijuana, clowns around at the […]

Life in the borderlands: families separated by paperwork and a wall
Migrant Stories

Life in the borderlands: families separated by paperwork and a wall

For fourteen years, Claudia Medrano and Yovanic QuiƱones have lived the back and forth life of the frontera. In 2000, they moved to San Diego with their kids, two children born in Mexico. Then another child was born in San Diego, and now the couple is back in Tijuana. But […]

Rancho Bajamosal: fresh organic vegetables for a healthy Tijuana
Tijuana Photo of the Day

Rancho Bajamosal: fresh organic vegetables for a healthy Tijuana

Urban organics farmer Adriana Whizar may seem to be following a new trend, but she’s also carrying on a family tradition that goes back to her father’s generation. Rancho Bajamosal, located southwest of the city of Tijuana between El Jibarito and COLEF, is a family ranch that has cultivated diverse […]

Beauty of the elements: Arte Tecnica Reciclada
Border Art

Beauty of the elements: Arte Tecnica Reciclada

Ivan Ortiz of Arte Tecnica Reciclada captures the essential beauty of copper and stone in his jewelry, made from recycled copper and other metals. His creations of raw metal, sparkling crystals and bright coral and turquoise evoke the ancient traditions of metallurgy–and bring to mind the artisans who heat, stamp […]

HUB STN: bi-national coworking space in Tijuana
Tijuana Colonias

HUB STN: bi-national coworking space in Tijuana

A new creative space has opened in downtown Tijuana. In March & April, Reactivando Espacios and the team of Hub Stn invited local students to be a part of the transformation process of the former Mexicoach Station Building (located at 1025, Av. RevoluciĆ³n) into a bi-national coworking space. And now […]