4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Catherine Carr travels to Tijuana in Mexico, and asks strangers - where are you going?
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0:00.0 | See I see I see I? |
0:05.0 | Come on. |
0:06.0 | Come on! |
0:08.0 | Come on! A growing line of people cue under a warm grey Mexican sky. It's early morning. |
0:22.0 | This is the Mexican side of the San Yousidro crossing in the town of Tijuana. |
0:27.0 | My name's Kastran Kav and for the BBC World Service I I'm asking people, where are you going? |
0:35.0 | I'm going to the US. I live here in Mexico, but I cross daily. |
0:41.0 | Daily. What do you do that for? I go there well actually I'm a stay-at-home |
0:47.0 | mom but I cross to go to the bank and take care of things over there but it's cheaper to live here. |
0:52.0 | Okay so it was an economic decision. |
0:54.0 | It's an economic decision. |
0:55.0 | 100% for 20 years it's been an economic decision. |
0:58.0 | For 20 years? |
0:59.0 | Yes, it's too expensive in the US and the people are nicer in Mexico. |
1:02.0 | I would rather stand in this line for an hour or two |
1:05.1 | hours a day than battle the traffic and the rude people over there. This program was recorded at the end of last year, shortly after the American election |
1:20.2 | and before Donald Trump restated his commitment to building a wall along this border. |
1:25.0 | For work, for love or for adventure. |
1:30.0 | There are many reasons why hundreds of people want or need to cross from one side to the other. |
1:36.0 | One simple question unlocks the truth about how they feel being in a town of transition with all of its tensions. |
1:44.0 | Hi, do you speak English at all please? |
1:49.0 | So I was just wondering with your coffee in the sun where you're going. |
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