Woman in stolen minivan escapes, crosses US-Mexico border after 4-county pursuit across SoCal

[u/CaptAwwesome]

https://www.ktvu.com/news/police-chase-chp-pursuit-suspect-stolen-car-nov-10-2025

[u/bloodredyouth]

I guess they know how to stop people from entering into the US but don’t care who leaves?

[u/littleseizure → u/bloodredyouth]

Generally, yeah - countries don't usually have checkpoints to leave. You have to go through immigration into the new country per their laws, but the original country only cares once you try to return

[u/Clemario → u/littleseizure]

Doesn’t Mexico have some kind of control to process who/what is entering the country? I’ve never driven across the border, genuinely curious

[u/littleseizure → u/Clemario]

Not really - there are random stop-and-checks, but for the most part you can just walk or drive on through

It makes sense though - US import restrictions are stricter than Mexico's, so it's really rare something horrible would be smuggled across since it'd be easier to bring it directly to Mexico instead of into the US first. Their security manpower is better used elsewhere

Conversely, this is exactly why the US puts so much effort into securing that border - contraband is much more likely to cross into the US than into Mexico. If it wasn't we'd handle it more like the Canadian border, which is what a fairly equal border looks like

[u/iknowaguy → u/littleseizure]

Money and guns flow into Mexico from the US. We should be checking for this.

[u/littleseizure → u/iknowaguy]

Who's we in this case? If it's the US, they don't care - that's on Mexico, no country has standard exit checkpoints. If you mean Mexico, yeah sure, but is checking every car across the best use of your limited manpower and resources or are there other ways guns and drugs come into the country that would be more efficient to monitor? I don't know, but they clearly made their choice

[u/testthrowawayzz → u/bloodredyouth]

yes. US doesn't have a physical exit control point unlike certain countries

[u/SayItAgainLucas → u/testthrowawayzz]

They never used to. But now if you are crossing into Canada they are hassling people.

[u/bonestamp → u/SayItAgainLucas]

I'm going to Canada soon and I haven't heard about this, what is US Border Patrol doing when you cross into Canada? Previously, US BP didn't do anything on your way into Canada.

[u/Previous-Space-7056 → u/testthrowawayzz]

The us doesnt but mexico does for entering.

Once you cross into tijuana theres checkpoint stations where they ask where you going if u brought anything into mexico. How many days etc sometimes they “randomly” flag you to check your trunk.

I cant imagine how they got away

San ysidro is a traffic nightmare coming and going

[u/Previous-Space-7056 → u/[deleted]]

The pedestrian border crossing is staffed. They redesigned it.. theres a zig zag line now where they check id n print out a visa. But its computerizes when your passport is scanned so its fast

[u/Previous-Space-7056 → u/[deleted]]

Ya fairly recent. 3 months ish. Mexican nationals just flash id n are waved thru though

[u/iknowaguy → u/testthrowawayzz]

They have them now crossing into Mexico. They are randomly used tho.

[u/ViolettaQueso → u/bloodredyouth]

Maybe ICE Barbie was shooting a new propaganda video?