TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO - MARCH, 2017
A resident of Tijuana walks watching the wall that marks the border between Mexico and the US photographed from the Mexican side in the city of Tijuana.
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO - MARCH, 2017
A group of illegal immigrants who try to get to the US or who have been deported stand in line for breakfast in the Salesian dining room "Padre Chava"
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO - MARCH, 2017
A group of illegal immigrants who try to get to the US or who have been deported stand in line for breakfast in the Salesian dining room "Padre Chava"
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO - MARCH, 2017: A group of illegal immigrants who try to reach the US or who have been deported have breakfast in the Salesian dining room "Padre Chava"
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO - MARCH, 2017
A group of illegal immigrants and deportees watch TV at the migrant's home in TIjuana, Mexico.
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO - MARCH, 2017
Phones of illegal immigrants and deportees are loaded at the migrant's home in TIjuana, Mexico
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO - MARCH, 2017
A volunteer from the Nazareno evagenlista hostel plays with a refugee baby of Haitian nationality. During the last year an avalanche of Haitian emigrants arrived in Tijuana trying to cross into the US. Most of the refugees were rejected by the US and currently live on charity in TIjuana in a total legal limbo.
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO - MARCH, 2017: A group of Haitian refugee women rest in the improvised abergue of the "Jueves 2021". During the last year an avalanche of Haitian emigrants arrived in Tijuana trying to cross into the US. Most of the refugees were rejected by the US and currently live on charity in TIjuana in a total legal limbo.
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO - MARCH, 2017
A group of Haitian kids refugee playin the improvised abergue of the "Jueves 2021". During the last year an avalanche of Haitian emigrants arrived in Tijuana trying to cross into the US. Most of the refugees were rejected by the US and currently live on charity in TIjuana in a total legal limbo.
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO - MARCH, 2017
The wall has become a tourist attraction since the arrival in the White House of Donald Trump. The town of Playas de TIjuana is a place of contradictions where every Sunday thousands of tourists gather on one side and on the other families dismembered because of the wall and deportations.
MEXICO BORDER USA, BAJA CALIFORNIA - 20017: Aerial view of the Sonoran desert, natural border between Mexico and the USA. The Sonoran Desert is a deadly trap for most illegal immigrants who try to cross into the US via this desert.
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO - MARCH, 2017 The wall that delimits the border between Mexico and the US photographed from the Mexican side in the city of Tijuana.
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO - MARCH, 2017
The Archbishop of Tijuana, Monsignor Francismo Moreno prays with a group of illegal immigrants next to the wall that delimits the border between Mexico and the US.
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO - MARCH, 2017: Protesters during the march organized by the catholic church in TIjuana for peace, justice and migration.
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO - MARCH, 2017: Protesters during the march organized by the catholic church in TIjuana for peace, justice and migration.
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO - MARCH, 2017
First hour of the morning in the kilometric waiting line to cross the border between Mexico and the USA. The passage between the two borders is complicated every day. In the last fifteen years, Tijuana has become a city of immigrants and deportees who do not achieve their American dream.
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO - MARCH, 2017: The wall that delimits the border between Mexico and the US photographed from the Mexican side in the city of Tijuana.
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO - MARCH, 2017
A family separated because of deportation is scheduled to speak at the Tijuana Friendship Park. Each weekend, hundreds of families separated by the wall are cited to see their loved ones in the border wall that delimits the border between Mexico and the US.
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO - MARCH 2017
Tijuana for the last fifteen years has become a city of emigrants and deportees who don«t reach their "American Dream".
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO - MARCH, 2017
A couple of tourists takes photos while she simulates climbing the border wall between Mexico and the US. The wall has become a tourist attraction since the arrival in the White House of Donald Trump. The town of Playas de TIjuana is a place of contradictions where every Sunday thousands of tourists gather on one side and on the other families dismembered because of the wall and deportations.
Exodus
The northern border of Mexico, with an area of 3.234 kilometers, not only divides two countries. Separate two cultures, two worlds. the Anglo-Saxon and Latin America. Tijuana, the busiest border crossing on the planet -14 million vehicles and 33 million people a year-, the westernmost city in Latin America, whose motto, more impossible Mexican, is: “Here begins the homeland”
Industry, violence, tourism and sex are an indissoluble part of the image of this city. In recent years, however, another element has been added to the equation. the deportees. During the eight years of the government of Barack Obama, the United States expelled -they are figures from the National Institute of Migration- about three million Mexicans, the largest record of deportations in history.
The United States maintains that it only expels criminals. Many deportees, however, report having been arrested in raids by immigration agents or minor infractions. “Any situation is grounds for expulsion,” says journalist Israel Ibarra. “Being a migrant on American soil is a crime. “
The deportees join, in any case, the thousands of people who remain after seeing frustrated their desire to cross to the United States. The majority of the 500,000 undocumented migrants who, according to the International Organization for Migration, travel north through Mexico every year are Central Americans, but the flow is universal. In Tijuana, there are natives from Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Sudan, Pakistan, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Iraq, Cote d’Ivoire, Russia, Ukraine and other European countries. Many end up staying in Tijuana; some out of conviction, most trapped by fate.
