Immigration security

Build a wall on the border? No thanks, says San Diego.

Thirty years ago, when Jerry Sanders was a captain in the San Diego Police Department, a long stretch of the nation’s southern border was marked by a waist-high cord. International pickup soccer games ended at dusk when the Mexicans ducked back under and went home.

Sanders carried this image with him as the city’s police chief and then as mayor. Now head of the region’s Chamber of Commerce, Sanders is disturbed by the national discussion about the border, especially GOP front-runner Donald Trump’s insistence on labeling Mexican migrants as drug dealers and rapists.