Binational Communities On The Border

NY Times: The Tricky Realities of Trump and the Border - The Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policies, and rhetoric, are straining the daily cross-border existence of those in Cali-Baja. By Jean Guerrero, Ms. Guerrero is an investigative reporter for KPBS and NPR News.

What’s often missing from our national immigration narrative is the centrality of complex binational communities like Cali-Baja, home to the country’s busiest port of entry and the San Diego-Tijuana metropolitan area. Every day here, about 145,000 people make the commute between the two sprawling cities and their outskirts.