USA-Mexico Border, Calexico-Mexicali, California, USA/Mexico
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Mexicali and Calexico are twin cities that straddle the USA and Mexico border.
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These twin cities are – as their names suggest – in part amalgamations of each other, joined in a sprawling metropolitan area straddling the state of Baja California in northwest Mexico and Imperial Valley in southeast California.
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Encircled by desert, the frontier fuels their existence as much as it divides them.
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But modern realities, most notably America’s post-9/11 security concerns and its continued appeal to unwanted migrants, complicate this relationship.
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Yet, frontier life persists and promises.
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Both cities, established at the turn of the 20th century, share history like siblings of estranged parents who never went their separate ways. Calexico began as a tent settlement of the Imperial Land Company, incorporated in 1901 to cultivate land west of the Colorado River.
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Calexico’s population of 40,000 almost entirely Hispanic people is dwarfed by industrialised Mexicali, which has a population upwards of 700,000, large boulevards and a big-city feel. Despite the disparity in numbers the two sides shared interests and character still forge a sense of togetherness.
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Ref: http://www.aljazeera.com/
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