General Reports

[StRobert]

This is a good link from the Tijuana tourist office. Hotels, Restaurants, etc. (sorry, no nudity he he he) http://www.descubretijuana.com/en.

[CurryMonster]

Any ATMs that give USD instead of pesos in or around ZN?

Banorte on 4th (https://goo.gl/maps/gMbiJYVYvpm) has a dual currency ATM (more than one, I think). Fees are reasonable, like 3 bucks or so total. Scotiabank next door to it may also. These places will also exchange Canadian dollars (and other global currencies) when they're open. The change place opposite Costco will exchange Euros, but not many others will.

[Phordphan]

Dear GNRPorch,

I am sorry that I doubted you. It was an honest mistake

OK. Hold the phone. I'm going to stick up for Jackie. Criticism pointed at him is completely unwarranted.

I, too, wanted to call BS on the OP's post. The dude's credibility is in the toilet. More in a sec. I've been crossing for around 20 years, first with a CA DL, then with a passport, then a passport card, then with SENTRI. On foot, and by car. I have never, ever, been asked for the names of anybody I've seen in Mexico. I could give them, but I've not been asked. I see now that a couple of guys have been asked, so I guess it does happen.

But my point is this. OP has, at various times, posted utter nonsense. Entertaining, but nonsense. He was mugged. OK, many of us have been. But, in this case, not by one or two rateros. No, it was a gang of maybe 5, or 6, or who knows. Not just any gang, a well-dressed gang (like they were going clubbing afterwards). Guys and girls. All very short. Unless the dude looks like Kareem, I guess it was a gang of well-dressed midgets. Umm, sorry. Little People.

He complained about getting stopped frequently by cops in the Zona. Then goes on to tell us that he's too cheap / poor for a hotel, so he carries his worldly belongings (presumably change of socks, underwear, toiletries, etc.) in coat pockets. That doesn't look suspicious at all, I wonder why all the extra attention?

It gets better. All the cabbies in Tijuana are psychics because they know when they drop you at HK or AB you have at least $300 in your pockets. Presumably they use this super power to help the rateros / cops rob you.

But wait. There's more. He used to get all sorts of OTC fun with an HK girl at her house. But the second she presumed to ask for money he kicked her to the curb. No pushover, him. I admit it seems odd for a girl who sells sex for money to ask him to chip in.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Mr. Jackie being extremely skeptical of anything the OP has to say. In my case, I ran out of salt grains long ago.

[Travv]

"Called "Tijuana Trump," Gastelum repeatedly has expressed his objections to the caravan and called for its organizers to be identified and prosecuted for taking advantage of desperate people and putting their lives at risk.

What most rankles immigration advocacy groups are his characterizations of caravan migrants- thousands of whom have arrived in Tijuana, overwhelming its shelters and other resources – as invaders and criminals.

In local interviews, Gastelum, who occasionally has worn a "Make Tijuana Great Again" hat, said the caravan included "pot smokers, bums and bad people. "

"Tijuana is a city of migrants but we don't want them arriving in this way. It was different with the Haitians, they had immigration papers, their arrival was orderly, it wasn't a horde, excuse the expression. . . " he said, according to the Mexico News Daily. "These people arrive in an aggressive, rude way, chanting, challenging the authorities, doing what we're not accustomed to doing in Tijuana. . . I don't dare to say that it is all the migrants but there are some who are bums, pot smokers, they're attacking families in the beachside neighborhood Playas de Tijuana, what is that?

https://www.foxnews.com/world/mayor-...nd-pot-smokers

Heads up from the Mayor of Tijuana- watch your six for the next wave of Caravan "Bad People and Bums".

[Long Don Silva]

OK, I get it. Sorry for the false assumption.

[Aviator400]

Fun fact to add to the already overwhelming evidence to support this opinion: he just recently posted that he's an attorney but always talking about he has such a tight budget going to Tijuana. I think it's common knowledge that lawyers get paid well enough to be able to splurge on some mongering in Teejay.

Not all attorneys are rich ambulance chasers. A few are actually in the profession hoping to make a small change in the world. Not in the profession myself, but a few family members have gone to law school to be better advocates for injustices.

[ScatManDoo]

I have also been asked "What was her name?" when I told the agent I was coming from Hong Kong. Regardless, I think we can ease up on Jackie888. Even if it's a perfectly plausible situation. A broken clock is right twice a day.

Fun fact to add to the already overwhelming evidence to support this opinion: he just recently posted that he's an attorney but always talking about he has such a tight budget going to Tijuana. I think it's common knowledge that lawyers get paid well enough to be able to splurge on some mongering in Teejay.

I am a licensed CPA in California.

I also follow a tight budget when I visit Tijuana (generally offering 100 pesos for blow jobs from walkers and 100 or 150 pesos for citas with street girls).

You are free to not believe me as well. But you would be dead wrong.

[Long Don Silva]

Hey Jackie: Maybe you should apologize to GNRPorch?

I recall reading numerous posts from guys who said to CBP they were visiting their girlfriends in Tijuana. That illicited follow-up questions from the CBP agents.

I have also been asked "What was her name?" when I told the agent I was coming from Hong Kong. Regardless, I think we can ease up on Jackie888 [Deleted by Admin]. Even if it's a perfectly plausible situation. A broken clock is right twice a day.

Fun fact to add to the already overwhelming evidence to support this opinion: he just recently posted that he's an attorney but always talking about he has such a tight budget going to Tijuana. I think it's common knowledge that lawyers get paid well enough to be able to splurge on some mongering in Teejay.

[Jackie888]

Hey Jackie: Maybe you should apologize to GNRPorch?

I recall reading numerous posts from guys who said to CBP they were visiting their girlfriends in Tijuana. That illicited follow-up questions from the CBP agents.

Dear GNRPorch,

I am sorry that I doubted you. It was an honest mistake [Deleted by Admin].

[ScatManDoo]

Border patrol wants the name of who you were with?

BS Alert.

Hey Jackie: Maybe you should apologize to GNRPorch?

I recall reading numerous posts from guys who said to CBP they were visiting their girlfriends in Tijuana. That illicited follow-up questions from the CBP agents.

[BearBare]

Border patrol wants the name of who you were with?

BS Alert.

I've been asked that a few times. If they think you crossed with someone but then split in line, then expect it. You talk to random in line, but CBP dude thinks you're friends and hiding your affiliation with the other person.

Also, they really don't give a fuck about some of what they ask. They're looking for signs of deception or unnatural nervousness. Both are easy tells for an agent to pick up on shady people. Watch a couple dozen episodes of Border Patrol agents on Netflix and its the commonality you will start to see. They ask simple open ended questions and your answers are pieces of a puzzle. If two pieces don't fit, something is going on or you're being dishonest and the agents job is spot a threat.

[Scudrucker]

I do not see the problem at the border with questioning. I have been asked about airlines in an attempt to throw me off but most have been friendly or indifferent.

Going to Mexico they usually fill out the card for me. One did ask what I was doing in Tijuana for five days. I replied" are you kidding me, the beer, the food, the weather", she smiled.

GNR is correct. Be very careful what's on your phone. Leave the nudes at home, Canadians who indulge are warned not to have pics of cannabis or plants and to pay for purchases with debit or cash as visa / mc info can be routed thru USA You know the old saying "just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they are not out to get you".

Sr.

[ClamSlammer]

Here's another fact. Border patrol can take your cell phone and if you don't give them the password they can send it to the computer guys to crack the code. It's on the ACLU website.

I cross about a hundred times a year, for the past few years, and ONCE the BP agent asked me the names of who I was with. It was fairly recently, like a month or two ago. So it is true that they ask that question, but rarely. And BP does have the right to review the contents of your cell phone. They've asked to review mine once. However, if you don't give them the passcode, they DON'T have computer guys that can crack the code. Not even the FBI can crack passcodes, at least as far as iPhones are concerned. Remember the San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook? Well, the FBI couldn't unlock his iPhone 5 C so they had to get a court order for Apple engineers to unlock the device. Best way to counter them having access to your cell phone is to have a second, decoy phone full of innocent content. Keep your real phone out of view and the decoy phone out in the open. If the BP agent asks to see your phone, hand them the decoy.

[Jackie888]

Made my return to zona, Friday was certainly quieter than a Friday in the summer or fall. Some of the same street girls. Couldn't find one of my reliable ones, same for HK, Adelitas, Chicago, so spent three hours 40 dollars on tips, drinks, plus my beer and taco money. It's tough to invest the money and time to find reliable chicks when you are on small budget. Saw a lot machine guns again these guys have their finger on it near the trigger. Border patrol went at me hard commingled back early in the evening nothing better for him to do. Will have to look up legality in his questions he wanted names of who I was with which through me off for enough time he knew I was lying.

Border patrol wants the name of who you were with?

BS Alert.

[StRobert]

Rain is hard and here. Tijuana should be a dhit show for a few days as 3 storms are coming thru.

Friday looks good, Saturday no fun, rain most of the day, but Sunday better link Tijuana weather https://www.wunderground.com/forecas...=localwx_10day.