Soldiers, sailors and policemen patrol Tijuana's busting nightlife scene and surrounding areas. This image was taken in Rosarito, a beach resort town just south of Tijuana.
Offering vibrant culture and an active gastronomic scene, Tijuana's main avenues are full of tourists looking for bars and clubs.
At noon on Tuesday, August 21, a man prepared his car to smuggle pounds of crystal meth across the busiest border in the world. A woman from Sinaloa desperately looked for the body of her brother who was murdered a month earlier. Dozens of people addicted to heroin lined the dried river canal to get clean needles and Naloxone capsules in the event of a possible overdose. On the outskirts of the city, the finishing touches were put on a memorial for the people whose bodies were dissolved in acid by Santiago Meza, a.k.a. El Pozolero, nine years earlier. Two men oversaw the project: Both are named Fernando and both have a missing son. Twelve hours passed without a single murder and the authorities held a press conference to announce the feat. Moments later, hitmen killed a pollero (someone who guides and smuggles migrants across the US border) in downtown Tijuana.
Heroin addicts camped in a dried-up canal receive clean needles and Naloxone capsules from social workers.
Law enforcement officials patrol a beach in Tijuana at night, finding a dead pig in the sand.
To relieve overcrowding at the Tijuana morgue, city officials passed a law that allows bodies to be moved to a mass grave after five days.
Many tourists want to see US President Donald Trump's border wall prototypes, which are only visible from the Mexican side of the border.
Derek Chinn takes tourists on a guided tour through various cultural sites in Tijuana, away from the typical vacation spots.