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As a way to ease traffic on Vía Rápida Oriente, the main road leading into the San Ysidro Port of Entry on the Mexico side, Tijuana city engineers have ordered a study to see if additional traffic lanes can be built on the river channel next to the border crossing.

According to the preliminary investigation, he was found dead in the driver's seat and had been shot multiple times through the window on the front-right passenger door.

Additional traffic lanes would be built on the upper part of the canal, on its eastern bank, and not in the area where the water flows into the U.S. according to Tijuana traffic engineers.

Over the last few weeks, drivers have been reporting up to three-hour delays to cross the border into Tijuana from the San Diego region.

A delegation from the City of Chicago including several aldermen are touring the Texas border this week and is scheduled to visit McAllen on Thursday and the Humanitarian Respite Center, Border Report has learned.

Truck traffic from Mexico flowed smoothly into El Paso on Wednesday, after almost a month of lengthy delays due to enhanced safety inspections by Texas Department of Public Safety personnel at the Ysleta and Tornillo ports of entry.

At California's largest commercial truck crossing, the Otay Mesa Port of Entry south of San Diego, long line are happening, but not because of mandated government inspections.

Contaminated drinking water in poor colonias is drawing new attention to what many say is an old problem for the substandard neighborhoods found on the Southwest border with Mexico.

Over 100 organizations have sent a letter asking the Biden administration to stop its plans to quickly build a border wall in South Texas through Starr County by waiving environmental laws.

Tijuana's downtown, a popular stop among tourists, remains the most unsafe area in the city, according to statistics released by Baja California's Secretary of Public Safety.