California - Mexico Border Tour
Center for Immigration Studies organized an intensive and informative tour of both sides of the California - Mexico border from Imperial Beach, California to Yuma, Arizona. OFIR President, Cynthia Kendoll traveled with the group March 1 - 7, 2015.
March 10, 2015
The Center for Immigration Studies U.S. - Mexico border tour begins here - in the Pacific Ocean
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El Bordo - between the U.S. border fence and Tijuana - a no mans land of despair on the banks of the Tijuana River
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The Border fence from the Mexico side encourages empathy for those entering the US illegally
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OFIR President Cynthia Kendoll inside a Border Patrol lookout on the hillside overlooking Smugglers Gulch
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Make-shift ladders used to scale the border fence are confiscated by Border Patrol
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From the left: Jerry Kammer - Pulitzer Prize winning writer and Senior Research Fellow at CIS. Peter Nunez - Chairman of the Board of Directors at CIS. Mark Krikorian - Executive Director of CIS. Brilliant men!
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Yes - this hill is as steep as it looks.
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We drove up the hill for an incredible view of the border fence. The U.S. in on the left and Mexico is on the right. Photos by border tour member.: Art Koenig ~ Photographer Artist
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Steven Camarota - Director of Research at CIS and John Wahala - Assistant Director at CIS, pose near a Border Patrol boat.
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Our group visited this mission in Tijuana.
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The mission feeds and houses deportees and migrants.
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Three-star General Ed Soyster joined our CIS tour.
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