The border that stretches between the United States and Mexico is not only a division on a map, or a physical obstruction on the ground. It is a division of many other things as well. The physical border separates major political regions, cultural regions, and economic regions. Now if the border was not there it is difficult to say how the Tijuana culture and the bordering U.S. culture would change. Without the border in place it would be difficult to indicate an absolute or relative location to the area. The U.S. Mexico border has many characteristics that give it meaning and a character. Also the border has a direct affect on the peoples lives that live near and around it. Usually the people that live along the border area of Tijuana have more things in common with each other than they would have with someone that lives on the border in the U.S. I believe that all of these things combined show how there are two distinct but interrelated and co-dependent regions on either side of the U.S. Mexico border.
The U.S. Mexico border has many distinct characteristics that give it a sense of place and a character. Tijuana is one of the fastest growing cities in North America with an estimated 1.2 m
Many things can be found along with the character of the U.S. Mexico border. Including a tremendous amount of movement of people into and out of the area. Since Tijuana is increasing in population so rapidly it is a surprise to know that even more people are using Tijuana as a median to cross into the United States, either illegally or as legal migrants. Tijuana is known as an immigrant city, with that title comes a large diversity of the people that live there. There are many southern Mexican migrants that have moved to Tijuana to seek a better economic standing. There also are a large number of Asian immigrants. Movement to Tijuana is matched and maybe exceeded by the movement of people emigrating from Mexico to the U.S. There is an average of 106,000 people who cross the border everyday. 65% of the people are traveling south into Mexico. Many of these people are day travelers and tourists. The other 35% of the people that are traveling north into the U.S., while many are tourist and travelers, some are immigrants coming to live in the U.S. on the north side of the border. The reasons for the large movement of people to the U.S. is manly economic.
My inflections on the photos and the essay come with mixed feelings. While I can clearly see two distinct regions along the northern and southern
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