Blurred Borders - International Community Foundation

Some of the more interesting specific responses received include the following:
� Economic disparities
� Economia para ambos paises
� Gran atracción en San Diego
� La calidad de vida es mala
� Los mexicanos dejan su dinero en USA
� Mexicans cross the border and purchase U.S. goods
� Senior Americans cross the border and buy cheap prescription drugs
� More crime, drugs, desperation
� Brings more culture
� Extortion, corruption in Mexico
� Liberty
� Mala influencia (Note: stated by a Tijuanense)
� Keep out illegals
� The border serves as a tool of oppression
� Not enough jobs for immigrants, become homeless, live in poverty
� Racism
� Terrorismo entra
� Cost of patrolling, suffering of immigrants
� Drunk driving, underage drinking
7. 12 Issues: How San Diegans & Tijuanenses Rank Various Issues
One of the original areas of focus for this project was to compare the perceptions of both San
Diegans and Tijuanenses about various major issues. Twelve topics were selected, and survey
participants were asked to rank how important an issue was, giving it a ranking from one to five
(very unimportant to very important).
It’s important to understand that most respondents from both San Diego and Tijuana likely felt
that all topics had some level of importance, leading most people to respond either “4-important”
or “5-very important”. As such, to better determine the subtle differences between the various
topics, CBA recommends looking at the percentage of responses for “very important”, the
combined percentage of responses for both “important” + “very important” (provided in a
shaded box next to these responses), as well as the percentage of responses a topic received in
the “neutral” to “very unimportant” categories.
San Diego’s results are provide first, followed by results from Tijuana. Subregional responses
are still in process:
A-8