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Violence up in Baja – especially for journalists
I will post a comment just in case people are still reading these comments. I went to Tijuana by myself on the 4th of July weekend of 2008. I am a naturalized US citizen. I live in Downey, Ca and went to San Diego That weekend. Once in San Diego, I decided to visit Tijuana for the first time. Once in Tijuana, I parked my car on a metered spot. When I was about to put money inside, a guy walked by and told me, "you don't have to pay today". I thought that it was very nice on his part. Had it been on this side of the border nobody would have cared. I say that based on my personal experiences here. Then I went to a park there where I observed some street performers tell jokes. One of them said to the kids watching, "Kids don't do at home what I am about to do here, do it in the streets so you can earn some feria(money)", then every body laughed. Then I went to the public restroom in the park and to a gas station to fill up the gas tank. No police stopped me. Ironically, while I was no detained by the Tijuana police, I was detained by the US border patrol for about four hours on my way back. I had my California driver's license with me but the boarder officers wanted proof of citizenship.— January 14, 2010 3:26 a.m.