Mas...o menos? Menos! (More..or less? Less!)

Posted by KRICO on November 25, 2000 at 19:22:54:

In Reply to: Re: Que Muchedumbre!... (What a Crowd!) posted by Ootie on November 25, 2000 at 17:15:17:

I think the author of the figure I quoted above may have been accidently (or foolishly) referring to the total number of legal border crossings between MX and the USA. Compare the two statements below, both found with an internet search - the first quote is the original: "The Tijuana-San Diego border crossing, for example, is now the busiest in the world, with an estimated 250 million crossings each year." Now here's a quote from another site- using the same figure but stating that it is for the entire international border and not just TJ-San Ysidero (Diego): "More people cross the U.S.-Mexico border than any other border in the world. There are over 250 million legal border crossings from Mexico into the United States each year. In addition, there were over one million undocumented Mexican migrants apprehended attempting to enter the United States illegally last year." And finally, more crossing quotes from various sources on the internet: "The city of Tijuana at the northern end of Mexico's Baja California peninsula is the most visited border crossing in the world. It is Mexico's fourth largest city and each year, 30 million people pass through the rusting metal turnstiles from southern California." "The San Diego-Tijuana border crossing is the busiest in the world. In 1997, 56 million people and nearly 1 million trucks crossed into San Diego from Mexico (the southbound traffic is not counted)." "For 1994, nearly 55 million individuals crossed northbound into San Diego. Some 65 percent of these crossers were Mexicans. Over the past decade, the percentage of crossers who are Mexicans has steadily increased." I know from personal experience that they ain't movin' 8 people a second through those USA re-entry turnstiles...especially on weekends. KRICO

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