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Local

6 charged with running deadly Mexico-based kidnapping ring

The Associated Press

The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles says in a statement that the Tijuana-based ring took people for ransom in Mexico last year by luring them into meetings where they were taken hostage at gunpoint.
Local

Explainer: What is the revived US policy on Mexico border?

Elliot Spagat / Associated Press

The Biden administration is acting under a court order as it seeks to end the “Remain in Mexico” policy in a way that passes legal scrutiny.
Local

In Tijuana, desperate asylum seekers prepare for the return of ‘Remain in Mexico’

Max Rivlin-Nadler

As the controversial Trump-era program seems on the verge of re-starting, migrants and their advocates are split about what to do.
Environment

Top US and Mexico officials discuss fixes to the region's cross-border pollution problem

Erik Anderson

The head of the U.S. EPA was in Mexico this week discussing how the two countries will stop the renegade sewage flows.
Border & Immigration

The border is open, but asylum seekers remain in limbo

Gustavo Solis

A controversial Trump-era policy aimed at keeping refugees out of the U.S. during the pandemic is being continued by the Biden administration.
KPBS Midday Edition

San Diego, Tijuana named 'World Design Capital' in 2024

Andrew Bowen

The designation is meant to highlight the cross-border region's approach to design as a vehicle for solving societal problems.
Border & Immigration

Politicians lobbied for border reopening as San Ysidro businesses suffered

Gustavo Solis

Almost all members of the local political and business establishment agreed that the ban on non-essential cross border travel was unfair.
Environment

EPA's plan to fix cross-border sewage cheered by locals

Erik Anderson

The EPA has a far-reaching blueprint to stop 95% of the transboundary pollution that fouls the ocean off the San Diego coast.
Environment

EPA announces plan to stop cross-border sewage flows

Erik Anderson

The Environmental Protection Agency wants to spend more the $630 million to eliminate 95 percent of cross-border sewage flows.
National

How Biden's border plans went from hopeful to chaotic

Elliot Spaga and Valeria Gonzalez / Associated Press

President Joe Biden recognized migration flows would spike if he scrapped his predecessor’s hardline border policies without a new asylum system in place. He was prepared for traffic to return to the highs of 2019, but arrivals exceeded expectations almost immediately.