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They are sold complete packages for $10,000 to bring them from say Colombia all the way to Tijuana, then they are met with a guide who shows them where to cross and how download further instructions.

There are several groups of citizens in Baja California dedicated to finding the remains of people who have disappeared or have been kidnapped.

When it malfunctioned, it forced two sewage collectors in the area to also go off-line, allowing for even more raw sewage to flow into the Tijuana River Valley and out into the Pacific Ocean.

The Hollister Street Pumping Station is a beige-colored block building with no windows, the perimeter fenced off with concertina wire and locked gates, and no one pays much attention to it.

A two-day binational conference began on Wednesday with leaders from the United States and Mexico earmarking future projects to spur economic development on the border, and trying to solve a water crisis that is plaguing both countries.

The Frontera Digna migrant shelter "is built for 100, but we have more than 200 now and everything becomes a sleeping space. ... Families can stay for up to three days and single adults “can stay until they are well if they come in dehydrated, beaten up or with broken bones.”

The health secretary stated they decided on vaccinating children after detecting a rise in overall documented cases and "a lag in the number of children who weren't vaccinated before."

With the Labor Day holiday fast approaching, Baja California tourism officials are preparing for an influx of 100,000 tourists, mostly from Southern California, Nevada and Arizona.

The death toll in Mexicali, located about 120 miles east of Tijuana, has reached 42 due to the extreme hot weather conditions this summer.

The two U.S. senators from California are asking the federal government to provide emergency funding to try and stop constant sewage flows that originate south of the border but end up on the U.S. side and out into the Pacific Ocean contaminating beaches and the coastline.