Migrants waiting for asylum hearings in Tijuana, Mexico, on Tuesday. More than 2,000 children have been separated from their parents since the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy went into effect, according to government officials.CreditSandy Huffaker for The New York Times
The number of families making the journey over land
to the United States has soared in recent months, infuriating the president, who had cited a decline in 2017 as evidence that his stance on immigration was succeeding.
A new “zero tolerance” policy, calling for criminal prosecution of everyone
who enters the country illegally, became official in May, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions visited Arizona and California.
“
If you cross the southwest
border unlawfully, then we will prosecute you — it’s that simple,” Mr. Sessions said.
Tijuana is the largest city in the Mexican state of Baja California and on the Baja California Peninsula.
Tijuana exerts a strong influence on local economics, education, culture, art, and politics. As the city has become a leading center in the country, so has the surrounding metropolitan area, a major industrial and paramount metropolis in northwestern Mexico. Currently one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in Mexico,[4] Tijuana maintains global city status.[5] As of 2015, the city of Tijuana had a population of 1,641,570.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijuana
What's wrong with Tijuana?
Is it those in Elected seats that think Tijuana is 'poor' and needy or is it the common U.S. citizen(s) that rally and protest against The President that think that those from Mexico are needy and in dire straits?
Tijuana has a diverse cosmopolitan population which includes migrants from other parts of Mexico and from all over the world. Tijuana has one of Mexico's largest Asian populations, predominantly consisting of Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese immigrants. Tijuana also has a large and rapidly growing population of United States citizens, mostly from Southern California. Many Latin Americans, notable Cubans, and Guatemalans, have made Tijuana their home. The city also has many Lebanese, Italian, French, Spanish citizens. Recently, the city has received a large influx of Haitian immigrants
Tijuana's importance and rise to a global city has led to its recognition among countries worldwide. In addition to international cultural recognition, Tijuana has received political recognition and is a developing a political center currently host to eight consulates from European, Asian, and North American countries.
The city's proximity to Southern California and its large, skilled, diverse, and relatively inexpensive workforce make it an attractive city for foreign companies looking to establish extensive industrial parks composed of assembly plants that are called maquiladoras, even more so than other cities in the US-Mexican border zone, taking advantage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to export products. At its peak, in 2001 Tijuana had roughly 820 of these 'maquiladoras' (today[when?] the number is closer to 550). Foreign and domestic companies employ
thousands of employees in these plants, usually in assembly-related labor. Such jobs are not demanding but typically offer above average (although not high paying) salaries for Mexico, with most maqiladoras jobs beginning at
Mex$100 per day (
about 5 US dollars, as of September 2016), significantly above the Mexican minimum wage of
Mex$57.46 (about 3 US dollars, as of September 2016). Companies that have set up maquiladoras in Tijuana include Lanix, Hyundai, Sony,[38] Vortec, BMW, Vizio, Toyota, Dell, Samsung, Kodak, Matsu****a/Panasonic, Bimbo, GE, Nabisco, Ford, Microsoft, Cemex, Zonda, Philips, Pioneer, Airbus, Plantronics, Siemens Mexico, Jaguar, Pall Medical, Tara, Sanyo and Volkswagen. Many of the maquiladoras are located in the Otay Mesa and Florido sections of Tijuana.
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5 usd per day is about 150 usd per month.
Cost of rent in tijuana is: Apartment (1 bedroom) Outside of Centre 4,240.00 MXN
4240 MXN = 213 usd
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Tijuana
Milk (regular), (1 gallon) 65.38 MXN
They supposedly earn 100 MXN per day.