SAN DIEGO ( Border Report ) — Without much fanfare last week, Mexico’s Institute of Migration, INM, set up a camp in the mountains about 65 east of the San Diego-Tijuana region, where members of Mexico’s National Guard will be housed.
The camp was put up in an area known as Jacume south of the border.
On the U.S. side, the area is known as Jacumba, California, which in recent months has become the busiest place for unlawful crossings in the region, according to Tijuana’s Migrant Affairs Office.
“It wasn’t easy setting up camp here,” said David Tejeda Padilla, head of Mexico’s Institute of Migration in Baja California. “There are few roads, no cell service and no internet so we can use our databases to check migrants’ documents.”
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He said soldiers who have been deployed to the area will act as a deterrent and make arrests.
They will patrol a 7-mile stretch of the border where there are several gaps in the barrier — openings used by migrants and smugglers.