What does it take to secure a border? Lessons from the wall dividing San Diego and Tijuana
Two Border Patrol agents discuss the changes at the U.S.-Mexico border, looking at the situation decades ago and now.
Patrick J. McDonnellContact Reporter
From here, where Southern California greets Mexico along steep canyons, images of a border gone awry once inflamed the nation’s immigration debate.
“The place was completely out of control back then,” recalled Oscar Peña, a veteran Border Patrol agent who recently stood atop a mesa looking down on an iconic site — the “soccer field,” where U.S. authorities long struggled to hold back the assembled migrants poised to head north.
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