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The San Ysidro Port of Entry (aka San Ysidro Land Port of Entry or San Ysidro LPOE) [2] is the largest land border crossing between San Ysidro and Tijuana, and the fourth-busiest land border crossing in the world (second-busiest excluding the crossings between Mainland China and its two Special Administrative Regions) [3] with 70,000 northbound vehicles and 20,000 northbound pedestrians ...
List of Mexico–United States border crossings. Traffic approaching the San Ysidro, San Diego border inspection station. There are 50 places where people can cross the Mexico–United States border. Several large border cities have multiple crossings, often including one or more that bypass the center of the city and are designated for truck ...
The analysis further states regarding the Tucson sector that, "Actual border interdictions numbered 320,000, but internal non-border checkpoint interdictions numbered 1,800. This means the number of interdictions per agent at the actual border was 116, but the number of interdictions per agent at internal non-border checkpoints was only 8."
San Ysidro Port of Entry through vehicle. The San Ysidro Port of Entry is located between San Ysidro, California and Tijuana, Baja California. Approximately 50,000 vehicles and 25,000 pedestrians use this entry daily. [35] In the U.S., I-5 crosses directly to Tijuana, and the highway's southern terminus is this crossing.
The number of people apprehended while illegally crossing the border in the region had seen a 95% decline over thirty years, going from 628,000 arrested in 1986 to 31,891 in 2016. [5] By February 2018, the last sign had disappeared. It was located alongside Interstate 5 near San Ysidro. [3]
Hundreds of asylum seekers with appointments made via a phone app wait for a scheduled interview with U.S. border agents at the San Ysidro border crossing. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
Children pass the time at the Movimiento Juventud 2000 migrant shelter in Tijuana on June 4, 2024. Dozens of families seeking asylum are living there as they wait to meet with U.S. officials.
The first phase of Gatekeeper focused on the 5 5/8 westernmost miles of the border, extending from the Pacific Ocean to the San Ysidro Port of Entry near San Diego. [5] U.S. migration routes immediately shifted eastward, and the use of professional human smugglers known as coyotes or polleros increased. In May 1995, the Border Patrol initiated ...