Give Baja a chance, You'll love it.
. I have traveled
into Baja and mainland Mexico for over 40 years and have experienced the good and a few bad situations. It is good you maintained yourself and did
not say anything back, as it would have only made the situation worse. TJ is under a lot of pressure to clean its mess up but it is a mess that is
not going to be easy to get under control. I agree with the others TJ is not Baja and do not let one wise guy ruin your future fun and enjoyment.
The Mexican Tourist agency can also take complaints and it may not resolve your situation but the complaint may get the government to tell their
border police or military to be professional with tourists. The bottom line if nobody reports these things then nobody will be told to stop such
actions. They have the right to search and do pat downs but not to harm in their searching techniques. You did not say if you were traveling with
others but this also helps these type of actions not to occur when you have friends with you, additionally Baja is always great with friends.
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| Originally posted by fdt I am very upst at this that happened to you, it is not normal. I really don't have great writing skills, specialy right now that I read your post. These abusive %$@?*^$%$ should be sent to some shark or piraña infested waters. There are many, if not the vast majority of us Tijuana residents that are really trying very hard to change this. For 3 weeks now you could sense a certain degree of peace in the city, when the above mentioned %^$%#*)*(&%^ had no weapons, call it coinsidence if you want, but we all felt prety good, there was some doubt, but as time passed we did not feel unsafe without them having guns. They, the ^$%^^%#$%%&^are so ridiculous, with that slingshot BS they did. Believe me, most of us did not feel bad for them. Now they have their guns back and we realy hope they don't come back with a vengence. Were they armed? I know that they aren't all ^%&^$&&^*, but the 2 or 10 or 100 that are make a name for them all. I know for a fact that there are people with power or position that are trying to make a difference and there are some of us that are doing it in our own different ways, because we want to know that we live in a good city, a peaceful, noble, welcoming, friendly, safe and hospitalarian city. I have to dissagree with those that say that Tijuana is not México or that is not Baja California, because it is. This is not Baghdad, we are not and never were under martial law, whoever sais that IMHMO resembles the sligshot cops, just ridiculous, not worthy of a response. I've done it before and will do it again and again and every time I see that I can, I will intervene. First thing tomorrow I will drop everything and persue your case with whatever authority can give response to this. I am sure you realize that in order to do this I will need some info from you, ie. names? badge #'s? time of day? etc. Can you do this? What a way to start this day, |
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Really though,
once you are away from the border towns it gets better. Once you are away from the hustlers and etc. Border towns tend to be inhabited by people
from all over the country and mostly with people from major cities. So even when a say "farmer" or someone from the country or a small pueblo come to
places like TJ, they themselves are victimized. I am Mexican born in Mexico, speak fluent Spanish, became an American Citizen and yet I have been
targeted several times in Mexico and each time it has been by police. I can think of three incidents right off the bat. Two in TJ and once in La
Jolla (believe it or not)
For the cop in La Jolla I had to pop out my US
Passport and as soon as I did that he stoped dead in his tracks about how he was treating me. You know I still have the cactus leaf forhead look
(Cara de nopal) but these guys do not know that I am an American Citizen... 
I remember telling them, is this the way you treat Mexicans that come back home.
The guy said how do I know your Mexican? I said do you not see my birth certificate? He said you could be Central American? I said and you can't
tell simply by looking at my Cactus Face? Like I said I speak fluent Spanish and I told the guy since when did you ever here a Central American speak
like a Mexican does. 
well at least this time it got me
thinking,
, never mind..
