What I don't understand (if this move really occurred), is that Tijuana
is a customs excluded zone of Mexico, exactly as at Livigno, Italy, at
Busingen, Germany and at the areas surrounding Geneva, Switzerland.
Last time I was in Tijuana (decades ago), the US dollar was used as the
currency in the city. Admittedly, that may have changed..... but the
principle that exists at the Basel airport in France, if emulated in
this case, that would have made the San Diego situation so much more
convenient. It's not the company that foots the bill for the bridge
that kept this arrangement much more difficult than it needed to be, but
the hard nose governments. I think of the relative differences between
the attitudes we saw between Bangla Desh and India over their former
enclave borders in contrast to the problem-free, liberal,
friendship-based treatment customarily applied between Baarle-Hertog and
Baarle-Nassau. Even the customs post at Bargen, Switzerland is way, way
behind the Swiss border with Germany near Schaffhausen, effectively
letting people drive quite a distance into Switzerland without
consequence. To claim it was necessary to move the US border to
accommodate workers and that moving carts between across a line is an
export transaction is stupid.
Len Nadybal,
Washington DC
Brendan Whyte wrote:
An article from the Wall Street journal is attached, describing a
private footbridge to Tijuana airport from San Diego.
Does anyone know if the temporary movement of the US-Mexico boundary 10
feet to allow construction of this overbridge required any international
treaty, or was just a working solution agreed locally by border guards?
Brendan Whyte
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