Breaking at the border
Trump’s policies have caused chaos for border guards and shocking conditions for asylum seekers at the detention centres in Tijuana and El Paso, just south of the border between the US and Mexico
If you want a study in contrasts, they don’t come much greater than the border area that separates Mexico and the United States at its most western point. The beach that is shared by the US and Mexico is divided by a 30-foot barrier that stretches for several hundred feet out into the Pacific Ocean.
South of the border, Tijuana’s wretched, overcrowded and violent migrant detention centres teem with misery.
Immediately to the ...