San Diego and Tijuana Compared

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Mr. Beat compares and contrasts two border cities that meet at the Mexico-United States border. One has a reputation for being one of the safest cities in the United States. The other has a reputation for being one of the most dangerous cities in the world.

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San Diego and Tijuana

Two sister cities separated by a heavily protected international border between the United States and Mexico.

It’s illegal to cross over that fence. If you want to go back and forth between the two cities, which hundreds of thousands of people do every day, you must go through one of three checkpoints. The largest of these checkpoints, the San Ysidro Port of Entry, is the busiest land border crossing in the Western Hemisphere and second busiest international land border crossing in the world.

The San Diego-Tijuana metropolitan area is the largest metropolitan area along that U.S.-Mexican border. While both San Diego and Tijuana are known for their stark differences, they probably have more in common than you think. And who knows, maybe if that giant fence wasn’t there, they WOULD have more in common.

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