San Ysidro – City Times

Senator Bernie Sanders speaking. Background is black and there are only a few lights illuminating the senator.

Bernie Sanders holds immigration rally

December 22, 2019

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who is currently a candidate for the democratic presidential nomination, held a rally at San Ysidro High School to talk immigration.

Clint White protestó el plan del presidente Trump de construir un muro en la frontera, parte de una manifestación cerca de la garita el 3 de febrero.

ESPAÑOL: Primera protesta del muro en la frontera

February 5, 2017

SAN YSIDRO -- Por primera vez desde la inauguración del presidente Donald Trump, decenas de personas se reunieron a pasos de la garita de San Ysidro para...

VIDEO en español: Protesta en la frontera

February 5, 2017

SAN YSIDRO -- Decenas de personas se reunieron a pasos de la garita internacional para protestar en contra del muro fronterizo autorizado por el Presidente Tr...

VIDEO: Protest at border

February 4, 2017

SAN YSIDRO -- A few dozen protesters converged near the port of entry on the evening of Feb. 3 to denounce President Trump's plan to build a wall along...

San Diego City College M.E.Ch.A. members and other protesters hold signs during the “Ban the border wall” protest on Feb. 3.

Protesters demand ‘No wall!’

February 4, 2017

By Elizabeth Comparán SAN YSIDRO -- For the first time since President's Trump inauguration, dozens of people flocked to the border to protest the...

VIDEO en español: ¿Qué piensan de Trump los que cruzan ‘la línea’?

January 23, 2017

¿Qué piensas de Donald Trump? Les preguntamos a jóvenes ciudadanos a punto de cruzar la frontera el día de su inauguración. Su respuesta común: Temor.

VIDEO: What do border crossers think about Trump?

January 21, 2017

We asked U.S. citizens crossing the border into the U.S. what they thought of Donald Trump as he was being sworn in as the 45th president. Their common...

Poetic panel present words from the soul

Heder Casas

October 27, 2015

English professor Virginia Escalante presented the "Chicano/a Poetics IV Panel" on Oct. 5 to continue the tradition of San Diego City College's International Book Fair and to celebrate its 10th year. With a master's degree of fine art from San Francisco State University, Jose Hector Cadena was the first panelist to speak. Cadena is a writer and artist whose poetry is based ...

A long line of people snaking around dividers to get through Customs is an everyday occurrence for some individuals. Photo credit: Joe Kendall

Crossing Borders

May 21, 2015

The Tijuana-San Diego border is a nonstop pumping vessel. It never sleeps. Thousands of people flood the border every morning as part of their daily...

Spitting Up Teeth: Rec Center Rolling

Mark Elliott

February 24, 2015

This begins in a place most fighters first learn their craft. Before this sandy town by the beach had foam lined gyms around most neighborhood blocks. If it was not your dad teaching you to use that good right hand, a person usually learns to fight in strip mall dojos or recreation centers found by word of mouth. Here in San Ysidro, in a room behind air hockey tables, ...