Tijuana Border Crossing Sees Most US Deportations Andrew Becker and Agustin Armendariz - San Diego Union-Tribune
go to original June 22, 2012

The San Ysidro port of entry – which separates Tijuana, Mexico, from San Diego County – is the busiest land border crossing in the world, with more than 30 million people crossing into the country from Mexico last year alone, according to government statistics.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement also has used San Ysidro more than any other border crossing to deport Mexicans back to their country, according to an analysis of government data by California Watch. Of the 1.8 million Mexicans whom ICE deported back to their native country since 2003, San Ysidro has seen 360,172 – nearly 20 percent of the total – pass through its gates.

Tijuana also has received through the San Ysidro port of entry and its smaller sister port of Otay Mesa more than 220,000 criminals, or nearly 1 of 4 Mexicans convicted of a crime who have been removed from the United States by ICE.

The agency has a number of “hubs” along the Southwest border for removing immigrants from the country. San Ysidro, the last U.S. stop for many Mexican deportees apprehended throughout the western states, falls under the San Diego office, one of the agency’s primary hubs.

On any given day, the agency buses 100 to 160 Mexicans, many recently released from jail, from the Los Angeles area to San Diego, with most repatriated through San Ysidro. Each month, the agency flies another 1,200 or so deportees to San Diego, where they are then bused to the border crossing to be removed.

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