Protestors Shut Down World’s Busiest Border Crossing

California Highway Patrol in riot gear have shut down all southbound traffic lanes at San Ysidro, CA (h/t to Erwin C at The Latin Americanist). Hundreds of Mexican teachers are blocking the world’s busiest border crossing. Members of a teachers union demonstrating against changes in Mexico’s pension system briefly blocked holiday weekend traffic Friday through the busiest border crossing in the US.

The protesters sat down in the highway in Tijuana a few hundred yards south of the San Ysidro Port of Entry, halting vehicles heading into the US.

A line of Mexican police in riot gear stood between the demonstrators and the US border. One the US side, the California Highway Patrol blocked southbound traffic on Interstate 5 with four Highway Patrol vehicles parked across the freeway stocked with police officers in riot gear. According to Mexico’s Frontera newspaper, police estimated the crowd at 2,500, however, our media claimed 200 to 300 people were involved. I wonder how KPBS reporter Amy Isackson concluded there were only 200 to 300 people. Was she even there? Did she even talk to the police? Or did she simply didn’t think care about this story because it was Mexico? Inquiring minds want to know.