The Latest Breaking News from Tijuana

SAN DIEGO — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has moved to end a controversial border policy that kept thousands of asylum-seekers from requesting protection in the United States over the past two years.

News the United States is poised to end a pandemic-related border expulsion policy is buoying hopes of thousands of migrants who have waited months in Mexico for a chance to seek asylum in the United States.

TIJUANA, Mexico — Claudia Jessica Villarreal used to fill up her gray Nissan Pathfinder near her home in Chula Vista, California. Then Russia invaded Ukraine and gasoline prices went bonkers.

TIJUANA, Mexico — Asylum-seekers and their supporters marched toward the San Diego-Tijuana border on Monday in demonstration against a border policy that has kept thousands from being able to request protection in the United States.

Russians trying to enter the United States at the Mexican border are frustrated they are not getting in like Ukrainians are, despite leaving their homeland over the invasion of Ukraine.

About three dozen would-be asylum seekers from Russia were blocked from entering the US while a group of Ukrainians flashed passports and were escorted across the border

Mexican official says at least 310 Ukrainians have reached the northern border city of Tijuana by air this month.

At the U.S. border with Mexico, American officials are allowing Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion of their homeland to enter the United States and stay without fear of deportation for a year, according to people crossing.

More than 8,600 Russians have sought refuge in the U.S. on the Mexican border in recent months, overwhelmingly using official crossings in San Diego

TIJUANA — A group of Tijuana journalists held a 5K race on Sunday to honor their slain colleague and raise funds for his daughter's education.

TIJUANA, Mexico — Communications shared between the criminals who are accused of planning the murder of Tijuana photojournalist Margarito Martínez Esquivel shows the group mistakenly believed Martínez was responsible for publishing information that exposed the network of a violent criminal group, according to the Baja California Attorney General.