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When we think of Tijuana, we think of college students heading across the border for a night of debauchery and good times. But to those who live there and have been successful, it is anything but good times.

The combination of drug wars and kidnappers have caused Tijuana’s elite, the doctors, lawyers, and businessmen, to flee the city for San Diego. Fear of kidnapping and horrific violence has caused these families to flee for their safety.

Such migrations have become increasingly common in metropolitan areas along the U.S.-Mexico border, as the ongoing violence of a brutal drug war has disrupted lives from Tijuana to Nuevo Laredo, across the Rio Grande from Texas. The Mexican government has sent more than 3,000 troops into Tijuana in the last 1 1/2 years, and on several occasions soldiers have shot it out with drug cartel gunmen on residential streets.

“San Diego is the only place you can forget the sense of insecurity and fear. There, you can breathe. Psychologically, crossing the border relieves the stress,” said Guillermo Alonso Meneses, a professor of cultural studies at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana.

… Real estate agents, business owners and victims groups estimate that more than 1,000 Tijuana families — including those of doctors, lawyers, law enforcement officials, Lucha Libre wrestlers and business owners — have made this move in recent years as the drug- fueled violence has worsened. via  Los Angeles Times.

What an amazing thought that violence this rampant is right across our border. We are in Iraq catching hell from the world media for trying to quell actions like this, yet the same horror is going on right next door and never reported.

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