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The workers, according to Tijuana Police, were welders who jumped from their perch when they saw a fire had accidentally started next to them.

Migrant encounters on the Southwest border in September and Fiscal Year 2023 were the most ever recorded by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and there were significant changes in where migrants cross from Mexico this past year, the agency reports

In Mexico, along the border in cities such as Tijuana, Halloween has become a tradition imported from the U.S., and more and more, you'll find events and gatherings geared for people who want to celebrate the holiday.

As Mexico enters a presidential election cycle, there are no indications the drug violence that is claiming tens of thousands of lives every year is going to stop, according to a Virginia-based international security firm.

Migrant encounters on the Southwest border in September and Fiscal Year 2023 were the most ever recorded by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and there were significant changes in where migrants cross from Mexico this past year, the agency reports

"If we leave only one lane in each direction, with cars coming out of the United States in the afternoon and evening, it's going to create a huge bottleneck and it could lead to a total standstill," said Rafael Vázquez Hernández, director of traffic with the Tijuana Police Department.

"It's not a migration of men looking for work, it's now families, women and children, it's working-age men who aren't fleeing for job opportunities, but men who are escaping horrible things in their place of origin, this has become a pattern."

With a pending construction project to build a highway on top of Tijuana's Avenida Internacional — a widely-used roadway that parallels the border — city engineers have decided that during construction, it will be best to turn it into a one-way street.

The Surfrider Foundation this week submitted a petition to California Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Joe Biden calling for an emergency declaration to address what it calls a serious public health and environmental crisis along the Tijuana River Valley.

Texas' U.S. senators this week are to lead a tour of the South Texas border with fellow Republican senators.