Long read.
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Illegal Ways to Avoid the Border Wait
By Geoff Bouvier | Published Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008

They’re still building roads out on Otay Mesa, about three miles north of the international border. The hot tar takes longer to set in the incredible heat. The smell hangs thick over the brown hillsides by the Corrections Corporation of America prison.

All around the facility, multiple coils of barbed wire loop and line the fences.

Supervised detainees in blue outfits — with “DETAINEEâ€