TV Schedule

Border Crossing

  2. embed code
  3. dgahr
  4. related topics
Janet Choi spends a day at the Port of San Ysidro--the border between Mexico and California,where everthing from drugs to humans are smuggled into the US.
dgahr

1 response // Border Crossing

  • Although usually we think of going to new places in search of new stories, sometimes you can go the same place, again and again. One of those places is the Port of San Ysidro, south of San Diego, California, on the border with Tijuana, in Mexico's Baja California Norte state. I was there with Anderson Cooper in September of 1993, Lisa Ling in October of 1996, Serena Altschul in December, 2001, and Tracey Chang and I were there with my long-time colleague Janet Choi in March of 2005. So when Janet and I went in August of 2005 to do this story for Current, there wouldn't seem to be much left to do with it. But as you see, the story keeps evolving--nowadays, as enforcement increases against undocumented migrants crossing the border where there is no Port of Entry, it is paradoxically forcing more migrants to try being smuggled in via legal ports of entry... Janet and I have worked together in Colombia, Afghanistan, North Korea, Ukraine, China and so on, but standing at the San Ysidro Port of Entry is just as physical. The U.S. agents and their dogs are working in the smog generated by 40,000 vehicles per day, the migrants are lying inside vehicles. It's a kind of high-stakes hide and seek that must be played out every single day.
    MitchKoss

Add your response

Login/Registration is required to add a response.