Driving into Tijuana, Mexico is really not a good idea. In fact, walking into Tijuana isn’t a good idea either. Why? There have been too many visitors killed or robbed there. There have been reports that many visitors to San Diego are still visiting the Mexican border city. I have both driven and walked into that city across from San Diego. Two men were killed by a gunman who opened fire while they waited in line, in their pickup truck, to reach the Tijuana border crossing at San Ysidro. The vehicle wait is usually 30 to 45 minutes. They were U.S. citizens who moved to the Mexican border city where they could afford to live on the beach.
The Associated Press report:
In the first six months of 2010, the latest State Department figures available, 49 Americans were victims of homicide in Mexico, up from 37 for the same period in 2009 and 19 in the first half of 2008.
The majority of the slayings happened in border cities such as Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana, which have also been the hardest hit by drug violence. In some cases, the Americans apparently were in the company of Mexican friends, relatives or acquaintances who were the targets.
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