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How safe is Mexicali … and Mexico? Part 3

Most Mexicali police are in trucks

In our opinion, Mexicali is the safest border town in Mexico and a lot safer than some places in the good old USA. [...]

Is Mexico safe? Yes!

We have never seen or experienced any violence in two and a half years of living in Mexicali. [...]

Is Mexicali Safe?

Waiting to cross into the U.S.

Jim and I had to run some errands in Calexico, California, and it was also an opportunity to show Matthew the town of Calexico.

We took off, at about noon, and while waiting in line to enter America a huge black  2009 Ford [...]

How safe is Mexicali … and Mexico?

Seized narco-money

Seized narco-money

This post is prompted by a comment sent in by one of our readers. He is coming to Mexicali on business, and wonders if he will be safe.

That’s a very fair question. My short answer is “yes.”

Jim and I could only afford to move to a border town. The [...]

The smuggler’s tunnel

The Innocent-looking tunnel house

Mexicali is a border town, just right next to Calexico, California.  As such, it’s a great place for smugglers to build underground tunnels to Calexico.

To do that, the houses where the tunnel originates in Mexicali have to be just directly across from Calexico. This makes it relatively easy [...]