Fear about Friday's violence in Tijuana didn‘t stay on the Mexican side of the border. It also affected businesses in San Ysidro, an area that was just starting to regain its footing after the pandemic.
The store manager said the effects of that night didn't hit her until the next day when she went to go to work on Saturday morning and saw a desolate town."The border line to cross was empty, no, no, no line. It was shocking because it's always full and the parking lot is always full and both were empty," she said.
She told KPBS nearly every store in her strip mall was closed, except for her own."But there were very few customers and only customers from this side of the border, and they were all asking what was happening in Tijuana," she said. We went to another store nearby and found a young employee who stayed home all weekend out of fear. She didn’t want to be identified out of safety concerns, but said she called her boss on Friday evening when she heard about threats from criminals calling for people to stay home or else they would be hurt. And, she said, every person she knows did the same.
In the shopping center next door, we spoke to another employee who did not want to give her name, but described the fear she felt over the weekend. She said she stayed home too, and so did her neighbors and friends. She said it affected all public transportation. She said she was scared and didn’t know what would happen, but she finally did take a risk on Sunday and went to work knowing her car might get taken and burned.
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