The border wall at the beach 

Thanks for extra info👍

If I recall it was called Tijuana Sloughs, decent surf at times back forty-fifty years ago

They didn't ask for a tourist brochure spiel, yah weirdo.

Do those cameras have nightvision?

I was in Berlin 73-74, US Army Berlin Brigade. What a city! Your hubby was at a different barracks, I was at Mc Nair Kaserne. Did you ever go to Club 50? I went on a tour to East Berlin, and saw Hitlers Bunker. The whole east of Berlin was grey and drab, while the west was bright and alive! I drove a tank, and we would point the cannon at the border guards and watch them panic! Such fun, and I sure miss my buddies

wowwwwwwww

thanks for the historical anecdote

@David M. When i read your comment i thought it was mean then i scrolled up to her pic and i laughed so hard! Funny shit

Berlin was very creepy in the 70s and 80s. I was there in 1980 as a child with my Mom visiting some relatives in West Berlin. We went to see the wall at the Brandenburg gate, Checkpoint Charlie etc and there were these observation towers in the West where you could overlook the death strip to the other side. I second your story although they didn't have guns anymore pointing at us, just binoculars but they did watch every of our movements. My parents though went there in the 60s and there was one underground station that was now the East but the rest of them and the whole line were West. The underground went through the staion but did not stop and in the 60s the dim lit station was filled with soldiers side by side who stood there pointing their machine guns at theWestern passengers in the underground cars. My Mom told me that she felt horrible going slowly through that station in the car at gunpoint. German people pointing their guns at Germans. Weird. Germans could also not to cross the border to the East via Checkpoint Charlie. Every other nation except Germans were allowed to cross there. I don't know why but I've seen newer movies where this happens. Wrong.

Things have changed at Derby Line…

@@davidwebb4904 Yeah well i commented before covid times

@@johnmarks714 20 years ago, it was an open border. 10 tears ago, they really started cracking down.

@@davidwebb4904 True. But youd be surprised what the library pulled off. They and the border authorities agreed that as long as visitors parked in their own countries and walked directly to the library and back to their cars, it's all good. Americans get the parking lot and canadians park on a street.

And a passport still wasnt needed to enter that library. Thats why thered been Syrian families meeting there.

Indeed!!! LOL... We love to see tourism in our city! Tijuana welcomes you!

totally agree. lived the the Bocs for over 8 years me and kids surfed that water. kids had surf P.E. at the IB pier.

Maggie's Journey Agreed!

Politics sucks!!

+propdoctor21564 The border patrol said it's a common area to cross, especially at night.

I saw a vlog from couple of kids, they actually talk to someone on the other side of the border. That vlog did not give any hints of where the beach is located. I have to go see it for myself now that I know the name of the Beach. :)

They knew you were there, maybe drone survalence?

hahahaha.........I don't even live in both of these countries but if U look at RU-vid vision from 2006 the wall did even go half way across the beach........People were just walkin back and forth.

The land of the free sure isn't.

yeah i grew up there. kids surfed there. contact the Mayor hes a long time friend. Serge will set you straight on overall water quality problems there. his boys are great watermen to as mine, my son was an IB Lifeguard for several summers.

This isn't the wall being discussed in politics. You can google wall prototypes if you are actually interested in what it would look like. This "wall" (actually fence) was built about 10-12 years ago as part of 700 miles of fence.

The portion of the wall next to Pacific Ocean was erected around 2012-2013.

youre telling me his 200 mile border wall is 20 feet tall? cmonnnnn

It's a wall compared to the rickety crap that kept no one out before. I appreciate it having been born and lived at a border city where drug/child traffickers' business was great for too long. ☠💉💊🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️💰🔩👎

It was very erie! Yeah I always wanted to see what it looks like when the wall goes into the ocean.

That's on the Tijuana side, Playas. But on the American side it's called Tijuana slough. I surfed there in 1969, been up and down Mex,and Calif. Great spots.

I agree. I was thinking the same time. But a person would probably be seen immediately by the Border Patrol.

The waves can get pretty high in this section of the ocean

The portion of the wall next to Pacific Ocean was erected around 2012-2013.

That is not the "wall" you hear about. That's a fence built during the Bush/early Obama era. As for swimming or boating around, that is what the Coast Guard and border patrol are for.

cwtrex sorry I didn’t mean Trumps wall I did mean the fence in this vid! It doesn’t seem to go very far out to sea so technically what’s to stop someone, at night, holding on to the posts and swim or dive around it? Also looking at Google Earth of the border, there seem to be loads of crossing places inland, crossing the Rio Grande so why don’t Mexicans try to cross the river, rather than amass at the Tijuana border crossing?

Coast Guard and border patrol. Also, not discussed much, but both of those groups not only use personnel to watch the gaps, but also utilized multiple technologies for detection as well. As for Mexicans, they are by far from the only ones to cross. The recent caravan was made up of multiple countries south of Mexico. I think a good point that does not seem to be mentioned by either political party is that a good bi-partisan solution to the border would be Trump's wall + processing centers at the delegated entrances. In theory, that would make safer places for those seeking to immigrate due to refugee needs, etc. I assume that safer than the Rio Grande is the reason for Tijuana since it is a town with supplies and services, etc.

cwtrex thanks for your swift reply. I do have sympathy for genuine asylum seekers, fleeing from tyranny, war, famine etc, but a lot of the current ones are simply economic migrants. Genuine migrants have to claim asylum in the first “safe” country they come to, so this would probably be Italy, but vast numbers of fit young men want to come to the UK because of our generous benefits system. Stay in your own countries and help to rebuild and create your own wealth and benefit all. Europe cannot take in most of the worlds poorest.

We in the US do not get a lot of info about how EU is handling their own migration issues. Thank you for your input on this. I do have to say that my own research tends to suggest that these large migrations cannot continue to be supported economically. Of course, you don't want to say no to migration either. I think the problem with the media in the US and perhaps else where is that none seem to point to middle of the road common sense. It is either this side wants none, and this side wants them all, but never a serious discussion about the benefits and disadvantages for various circumstances.

Freedom. You're not allowed near the fence.

Liberty. Just as long as you carry I. D.

You're funny, the border patrol isnt going to go after you. They are only interested going from mexico to usa. you can even paddle board into mexico.

Chernoble is still radioactive i believe.

Dlspiritdancer It is but the radiation has lowered enough they hold official tours since 2011.