Crime, Safety, and the Police

[Captain Solo]

CBP agents have been deployed in Arizona and Texas to help process the flood of migrants.

CBP check points on freeways like I 5, I 15, I 60 have not been manned for over a year. Cars, vans, trucks have been smuggling people in through Imperial Valley areas.

CBP agents have to do their paper work perfectly for migrants instead of manning their check points, so more illegals are crossing over than ever.

SD 10 pm news the other night said the delay at the border is being caused by CBP personnel being tied up in processing the increase of illegals showing up at the border.

[RikyMichaels7]

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[Hargow20]

The pedestrian wait times seem to primarily long on Friday & Saturday evenings. Personally I avoid driving in Tijuana. Much easier and faster to walk. I just wish Pedwest will reopen soon.

Wendy Fry is the reporter on border issues for the San Diego Tribune. She can shed some light on the abuses by Mexican criminals and US government workers at the border. We just have to petition them to investigate.

We cannot let criminals and corrupt government workers to abuse and make life miserable for all of us:

https://twitter.com/WendyFry_?ref_sr...Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Also the S why chamber of Commerce:

https://sanysidrochamber.org/

Another sign we're recovering: border traffic is getting ugly again.

Traffic delays to enter Mexico can be particularly brutal on Friday afternoons, when many people are returning home after working in San Diego.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com...er-traffic-jam

((Wendy Fry / San Diego Union-Tribune)).

By Wendy FRY May 1, 2021 6 AM PT San Ysidro.

Since the pandemic began, essential workers who live in Mexico have been enduring hours long wait times every morning just to make it to their jobs in the United States.

Now they face a similar situation as they return home in the evening, with southbound traffic starting to slow around 3 pm As cars are trying to enter Mexico.

"It does get frustrating, yes," said Jorgen Noriega, 25, who works in a restaurant in Chula Vista. Noriega was waiting in southbound traffic to return home to Mexico on Thursday afternoon after his shift.

"Sometimes it's three or four hours to leave and an hour to get back across. It just drags on your day," he said.

As more people become vaccinated and more businesses reopen, traffic both vehicular and pedestrian is picking up. But the restrictions on nonessential travel that were put in place last March for COVID-19 by USA Customs and Border Protection remain in effect, funneling people, cars and trucks into fewer checkpoints.

Cross-border travel of passengers and pedestrians in the San Diego region dropped about 44 percent from January 2020 to January 2021, according to data released by Robert Sanders, a public affairs liaison with the CBP in San Diego. It's recovered much of that ground since. The number of pedestrians who walked through the San Ysidro Port of Entry has almost reached pre-pandemic levels: There were 520,901 crossers on foot in March 2021 vs. 541,519 in March 2020.

Jason Wells, the CEO of the San Ysidro Chamber of Commerce, expressed concern that the long delays have been taking place despite CBP returning to a full staffing schedule.

"Border restrictions are keeping customers from our businesses. Now, CBP inefficiency is keeping workers from getting to our businesses," he said. "How we have 55 percent of 'normal' crossings, full CBP staffing and five times acceptable crossing times is a mystery to us. ".

Traffic snarled for hours on Tuesday morning after a rainy night. More than four hour waits were reported by some drivers and lines of cars stretched several miles into Tijuana.

(Courtesy of Tijuana journalist Alfredo Alvarez).

A CBP spokeswoman did not immediately return a request for comment or to confirm whether the agency is indeed currently operating at full capacity.

Traffic delays late last week and early this week were particularly rough, with slowdowns caused by what border officials described as migrant protests.

Only about a quarter of the lanes at the San Ysidro Port of Entry were open Saturday morning, prompting delays of more than four hours as groups of advocates and migrants protested in the area. The protesters were hoping to draw attention to the slow process of seeking legal asylum in the United States.

By 10 am On Saturday, officials had nine of the 34 regular lanes open between San Diego and Tijuana. About three SENTRI lanes for preapproved trusted travelers who are able to cross more quickly were also open.

A CBP spokesperson said several lanes were temporarily closed for security purposes to ensure the safety of the officers and the traveling public.

Facebook groups that track border traffic rejoiced Thursday as traffic began returning to normal.

Though most regular border crossers are accustomed to northbound waits and busier activity during the weekend, the mid-week southbound traffic has caught some by surprise.

"At first I thought 'Dang, it's a Tuesday afternoon, what's up with this? Said Robert Smith, a Rosarito resident who got caught in traffic traveling southbound. He attributed the increased traffic to several factors, including more people becoming vaccinated and resuming their cross-border lifestyles.

"That's not going to change. We're almost in summer now, and if you look at Rosarito the last couple weekends, it's looked just like in Summer 2019," he said.

Mexico is not restricting nonessential land crossings from the USA In Baja California because the state is on a yellow level the last tier in its epidemiological risk-evaluation system before full reopening.

Restrictions on nonessential crossings at the USA -Mexico land border northbound will remain in place at least through May 21, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Wendy Fry.

Wendy Fry is a member of the Watchdog & Accountability team at The San Diego Union-Tribune. She worked at the newspaper from 2009 to 2012, and worked at NBC San Diego from 2013 to 2018 before returning to the paper. Wendy won SPJ's Sol Price Award for Responsible Journalism in 2012 for her coverage of corruption at the Sweetwater schools, and she won the Grand Golden Watchdog Award from the San Diego County Taxpayers Association in 2017.

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[Artisttyp]

SD 10 pm news the other night said the delay at the border is being caused by CBP personnel being tied up in processing the increase of illegals showing up at the border.

[Captain Solo]

Wendy Fry is the reporter on border issues for the San Diego Tribune. She can shed some light on the abuses by Mexican criminals and US government workers at the border. We just have to petition them to investigate.

We cannot let criminals and corrupt government workers to abuse and make life miserable for all of us:

https://twitter.com/WendyFry_?ref_sr...Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Also the S why chamber of Commerce:

https://sanysidrochamber.org/

Another sign we're recovering: border traffic is getting ugly again.

Traffic delays to enter Mexico can be particularly brutal on Friday afternoons, when many people are returning home after working in San Diego.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com...er-traffic-jam

((Wendy Fry / San Diego Union-Tribune)).

By Wendy FRY May 1, 2021 6 AM PT San Ysidro—.

Since the pandemic began, essential workers who live in Mexico have been enduring hours long wait times every morning just to make it to their jobs in the United States.

Now they face a similar situation as they return home in the evening, with southbound traffic starting to slow around 3 pm As cars are trying to enter Mexico.

"It does get frustrating, yes," said Jorgen Noriega, 25, who works in a restaurant in Chula Vista. Noriega was waiting in southbound traffic to return home to Mexico on Thursday afternoon after his shift.

"Sometimes it's three or four hours to leave and an hour to get back across. It just drags on your day," he said.

As more people become vaccinated and more businesses reopen, traffic — both vehicular and pedestrian — is picking up. But the restrictions on nonessential travel that were put in place last March for COVID-19 by USA Customs and Border Protection remain in effect, funneling people, cars and trucks into fewer checkpoints.

Cross-border travel of passengers and pedestrians in the San Diego region dropped about 44 percent from January 2020 to January 2021, according to data released by Robert Sanders, a public affairs liaison with the CBP in San Diego. It's recovered much of that ground since. The number of pedestrians who walked through the San Ysidro Port of Entry has almost reached pre-pandemic levels: There were 520,901 crossers on foot in March 2021 vs. 541,519 in March 2020.

Jason Wells, the CEO of the San Ysidro Chamber of Commerce, expressed concern that the long delays have been taking place despite CBP returning to a full staffing schedule.

"Border restrictions are keeping customers from our businesses. Now, CBP inefficiency is keeping workers from getting to our businesses," he said. "How we have 55 percent of 'normal' crossings, full CBP staffing and five times acceptable crossing times is a mystery to us. ".

Traffic snarled for hours on Tuesday morning after a rainy night. More than four hour waits were reported by some drivers and lines of cars stretched several miles into Tijuana.

(Courtesy of Tijuana journalist Alfredo Alvarez).

A CBP spokeswoman did not immediately return a request for comment or to confirm whether the agency is indeed currently operating at full capacity.

Traffic delays late last week and early this week were particularly rough, with slowdowns caused by what border officials described as migrant protests.

Only about a quarter of the lanes at the San Ysidro Port of Entry were open Saturday morning, prompting delays of more than four hours as groups of advocates and migrants protested in the area. The protesters were hoping to draw attention to the slow process of seeking legal asylum in the United States.

By 10 am On Saturday, officials had nine of the 34 regular lanes open between San Diego and Tijuana. About three SENTRI lanes for preapproved trusted travelers who are able to cross more quickly were also open.

A CBP spokesperson said several lanes were temporarily closed for security purposes to ensure the safety of the officers and the traveling public.

Facebook groups that track border traffic rejoiced Thursday as traffic began returning to normal.

Though most regular border crossers are accustomed to northbound waits and busier activity during the weekend, the mid-week southbound traffic has caught some by surprise.

"At first I thought 'Dang, it's a Tuesday afternoon, what's up with this? Said Robert Smith, a Rosarito resident who got caught in traffic traveling southbound. He attributed the increased traffic to several factors, including more people becoming vaccinated and resuming their cross-border lifestyles.

"That's not going to change. We're almost in summer now, and if you look at Rosarito the last couple weekends, it's looked just like in Summer 2019," he said.

Mexico is not restricting nonessential land crossings from the USA In Baja California because the state is on a yellow level — the last tier in its epidemiological risk-evaluation system before full reopening.

Restrictions on nonessential crossings at the USA -Mexico land border northbound will remain in place at least through May 21, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Wendy Fry.

Wendy Fry is a member of the Watchdog & Accountability team at The San Diego Union-Tribune. She worked at the newspaper from 2009 to 2012, and worked at NBC San Diego from 2013 to 2018 before returning to the paper. Wendy won SPJ's Sol Price Award for Responsible Journalism in 2012 for her coverage of corruption at the Sweetwater schools, and she won the Grand Golden Watchdog Award from the San Diego County Taxpayers Association in 2017.

[Info1]

Cracking down on the street dealers would be a good first step. It is ridiculous that they are allowed to sell drugs in the open.

That would work there and many places throughout the country. And the US too. I want to think about Mexico as a whole.

Think systemic solutions for the country as a whole. Cities like CDMX, MTY, GDL compared to Chiapas why Tabasco. To me it's complicated with many different beliefs within the country.

[Hargow20]

Cracking down on the street dealers would be a good first step. It is ridiculous that they are allowed to sell drugs in the open.

This is something I have pondered for a decade and a half. I still have no concrete answer to solving it that I am willing to stand on. The issue is it is systemic, in not only the leaders of the government, but has filtered down to the every day employee (as I paraphrase Travv quoting Dugan Flanakin). My only idea to repairing it, there ain't no fixing it, is to go back to the earlier days when both sides had a "kinder, gentler, machine gun hand".

Ideas, suggestions, or a well thought out thesis would be wonderful. Ain't none of us going to be right, correct, or even know, until time plays it out. I guess I'm just wanting to know what your best thoughts on your best bet.

[Info1]

The corruption problem has gone on for eon's in Mexico. Part of the problem is that we either have had presidents that were corrupt or others that lacked will stamp out the drugs & corruption. My own belief is a outside law enforcement agency to help weed out corruption will stop it. Mexico will never agree to this national pride is so strong.

This is something I have pondered for a decade and a half. I still have no concrete answer to solving it that I am willing to stand on. The issue is it is systemic, in not only the leaders of the government, but has filtered down to the every day employee (as I paraphrase Travv quoting Dugan Flanakin). My only idea to repairing it, there ain't no fixing it, is to go back to the earlier days when both sides had a "kinder, gentler, machine gun hand".

Ideas, suggestions, or a well thought out thesis would be wonderful. Ain't none of us going to be right, correct, or even know, until time plays it out. I guess I'm just wanting to know what your best thoughts on your best bet.

[Hargow20]

The corruption problem has gone on for eon's in Mexico. Part of the problem is that we either have had presidents that were corrupt or others that lacked will stamp out the drugs & corruption. My own belief is a outside law enforcement agency to help weed out corruption will stop it. Mexico will never agree to this national pride is so strong. The only good thing is that downtown Tijuana & the tourist areas are reasonably safe these days. The Zona has security guards & they have dramatically reduced the muggings in the Zona. Violent crime still occurs however. I really surprised to hear about the murder in Puerto Nuevo.

Townhall.com .

May 6, 2021.

Dugan Flanakin.

"Corruption is not a disagreeable characteristic of the Mexican political system," Gabriel Zaid observed in La economia presidencial. "It is the system."

"It is widely known," Mexican journalist Ricardo Ravelo wrote in June 2018, "how the General Administration of Customs. Operates a network of officials linked to large-scale smuggling in the country's 49 customs offices. " Under previous central administrators Aristotle andez Snchez and Osvaldo Santin Quiroz, Mexico's Tax Administration Service (SAT) became known for ". Unleashing smuggling throughout the country."

Smuggling, said Ravelo, is a business that operates in Mexico without a containment dam, under the protection of senior officials at the SAT. Those close to the SAT high command, he added, rake in millions in cash distributed by large international smugglers, importers of Chinese fabrics and other goods. . .

Mexico has a long history of mordida, greasing palms and operating under a system of "functional corruption" to get things done. In a 2013 article in The Atlantic, Mexico-based business consultant Lawrence Weiner flatly stated that ". Modern Mexico has never functioned without corruption, and its current system would either collapse or change beyond recognition if it tried to do so."

Weiner noted that few private Mexican fortunes have been made without colmillo ("fang" or cunning) - the owner's ability to cultivate ties to the right officials and master the art of "mutually convenient" relationships. The system, he asserts, is built on mutual distrust outside." The family."

The result is that much of Mexico's economy depends on monopolies and oligarchic cartels.

As Jude Webber reported in the Financial Times last year, the average bribe per person to public officials (including police and civil servants), as compiled by Mexico's National Statistical and Geographical Information System (INEGI), rose from 2,273 pesos in 2017 to 3,822 in 2019 equivalent to the monthly salary of 40 percent of Mexicans.

Corrupt public officials and their criminal patrons are today negatively impacting two of Mexico's greatest treasures: tourism and the natural resources that make Mexico so attractive.

The typical "war" against public corruption in Mexico has been one group of corrupt officials discrediting their equally corrupt predecessors, with little if any reduction in theft. Thus, for Mexico to gain the world's trust in its pursuit of effective anti-corruption strategies, the country must weed out corruption from within, without slowing its economy in the process.

And so we must ask ourselves, Has Mexico moved beyond "functional corruption" into chaos?

Commenters: "Corruption in Mexico is a way of life. From top government officials to the bottom. It's expected.

As opposed to the US where everything is. Hmm. Never mind. Everything is very much like Mexico. ".

Where is Hunter and his laptop full of deals for Ukrainian kickbacks? Don't forget: "10 percent for the BIG GUY". Good thing the USA is nothing like Mexico. . . LOL.

[Travv]

Townhall.com .

May 6, 2021.

Dugan Flanakin.

"Corruption is not a disagreeable characteristic of the Mexican political system," Gabriel Zaid observed in La economia presidencial. "It is the system."

"It is widely known," Mexican journalist Ricardo Ravelo wrote in June 2018, "how the General Administration of Customs. Operates a network of officials linked to large-scale smuggling in the country's 49 customs offices. " Under previous central administrators Aristotle andúñez Sánchez and Osvaldo Santin Quiroz, Mexico's Tax Administration Service (SAT) became known for ". Unleashing smuggling throughout the country."

Smuggling, said Ravelo, is a business that operates in Mexico without a containment dam, under the protection of senior officials at the SAT. Those close to the SAT high command, he added, rake in millions in cash distributed by large international smugglers, importers of Chinese fabrics and other goods. . .

Mexico has a long history of mordida, greasing palms and operating under a system of "functional corruption" to get things done. In a 2013 article in The Atlantic, Mexico-based business consultant Lawrence Weiner flatly stated that ". Modern Mexico has never functioned without corruption, and its current system would either collapse or change beyond recognition if it tried to do so."

Weiner noted that few private Mexican fortunes have been made without colmillo ("fang" or cunning) - the owner's ability to cultivate ties to the right officials and master the art of "mutually convenient" relationships. The system, he asserts, is built on mutual distrust outside." The family."

The result is that much of Mexico's economy depends on monopolies and oligarchic cartels.

As Jude Webber reported in the Financial Times last year, the average bribe per person to public officials (including police and civil servants), as compiled by Mexico's National Statistical and Geographical Information System (INEGI), rose from 2,273 pesos in 2017 to 3,822 in 2019 – equivalent to the monthly salary of 40 percent of Mexicans.

Corrupt public officials and their criminal patrons are today negatively impacting two of Mexico's greatest treasures: tourism and the natural resources that make Mexico so attractive.

The typical "war" against public corruption in Mexico has been one group of corrupt officials discrediting their equally corrupt predecessors, with little if any reduction in theft. Thus, for Mexico to gain the world's trust in its pursuit of effective anti-corruption strategies, the country must weed out corruption from within, without slowing its economy in the process.

And so we must ask ourselves, Has Mexico moved beyond "functional corruption" into chaos?

Commenters: "Corruption in Mexico is a way of life. From top government officials to the bottom. It's expected.

As opposed to the US where everything is. Hmm. Never mind. Everything is very much like Mexico. ".

Where is Hunter and his laptop full of deals for Ukrainian kickbacks? Don't forget: "10 percent for the BIG GUY". Good thing the USA is nothing like Mexico. . . LOL.

[Hargow20]

Most of the dealers in the Zona are not much of a threat. I see different street dealers all the time.

Tijuana drug dealers own the police. You're accustomed to a society where the government and police have the power. It just doesn't work that way, here. Zona Norte is run by the most powerful drug cartels on the planet. A cop wouldn't dare challenge a dealer unless he's a small-time, lone wolf. Most are not.

[Hargow20]

I cannot believe that Tijuana has not done basic things as installing more lighting in Tijuana. There should a be lot more lighting on the pedestrian part of the Primera. The old shopping mall bye pedestrian bridge also needs much more lighting.

[Babe Magnet]

Did you notice that the location of drug dealings is always about 20 meters and in full sight of the police? That implies that those drug dealers paid the police for protection.

Tijuana drug dealers own the police. You're accustomed to a society where the government and police have the power. It just doesn't work that way, here. Zona Norte is run by the most powerful drug cartels on the planet. A cop wouldn't dare challenge a dealer unless he's a small-time, lone wolf. Most are not.

[Hargow20]

The man was killed by the arch entrance around 9 pm to Puero Nuevo. This killing is really sad and bizarre. There usually people around. I wonder if there was drug deal. There was also another robbery that took place a the same location The value of the items was worth roughly $30,000. Rosarito was also named as the most violent parts of Mexico according to study in 2019.

(https://www.elvocero.com/ley-y-orden/le-roban-m-s-de-30-000-en-prendas-en-asalto/article_f0c03290-ab6b-11eb-9d89-338d787f1784.html )
(https://themazatlanpost.com/2020/05/08/the-most-dangerous-municipality-in-mexico-murders-kidnappings-and-extortion/ )

(https://mexicodailypost.com/2021/04/21/california-man-killed-in-puerto-nuevo-baja-california/ )[/URL]