Click: Tijuana pedestrians making their way to the U.S. border through the early morning darkness. Click: A driver at the wheel of her car, surrounded by a vehicles pointed north toward the San Ysidro Port of Entry. Click: A pair of trolley trains forming red blurs as they carry border crossers to their destinations.
These are moments in the lives of young San Diego-Tijuana transfronterizos, or transborder residents, for whom crossing is a daily routine. A small group of them, mostly college students, have been documenting their lives through photographs snapped from cameras and cellphones as they head to their destinations in Tijuana and San Diego.
Spearheaded by the AjA Project, a City Heights-based nonprofit, the BorderClick initiative strives to shed light on the border as experienced daily by tens of thousands of cross-border commuters. Amid the political firestorms over President Donald Trump’s plans for an expanded border wall and stricter immigration enforcement, members of this group say their experience with the border has been largely overlooked.
