The 3-ton pockmarked, gray concrete slab sits between a bullring, a lighthouse and the border wall, which extends into the Pacific Ocean.
, saying she acted on credible threats against her brought to her attention by US intelligence officials and a recommendation by Mexico’s federal government.Caballero said that she doesn’t know who wants to kill her but suspects payback for having seized arms from violent criminals who plague her city.“Someone is probably upset with me,” she said in her spacious City Hall office.
Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero has lived in a military barracks in Tijuana since June due to safety concerns.“Why in Tijuana?” Caballero said. “How many families have shed blood, labor and their lives to get past the wall? The social and political conflict is different than the Berlin Wall, but it’s a wall at the end of the day. And a wall is always a sphinx that divides and bloodies nations.”, ending a signature effort by his predecessor, Donald Trump.
For decades, families separated by immigration status met through barbed wire and, later, a chain-link fence.Then-first lady Pat Nixon speaks at the dedication of Friendship Park in San Diego, on the border with Tijuana, Mexico, Aug. 18, 1971.At an arts festival in 2005, David “The Human Cannonball” Smith Jr. flashed his passport in Tijuana as he lowered himself into a barrel and was shot over the wall, landing on a net on the beach with US border agents nearby.
The US government has gradually restricted park access from San Diego over the last 15 years in a state park that once allowed cross-border yoga classes, religious services and music festivals., the Biden administration agreed to keep the wall at 18 feet for a small section where some access will be allowed.
A mural by artist Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana featuring adults who moved to the US illegally as young children and were deported.Lydia Vanasse, who works in the financial sector in San Diego and lives in Tijuana, said the relic took her back to her 20s when the Soviet empire fell and Germans were suddenly allowed to move freely.
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