False Claim: California has open borders that let anyone into the state

California has supplemented the federal work – freeing up federal officials to perform other duties.

Additional Key Stats:

• We work together: California and Mexico are major trading partners with two-way trade amounting to $94.8 billion in 2023 and $91.25 billion in 2022
  • In 2023, two-way trade between California and Mexico amounted to over $94.8 billion – more than 15% of California’s total trade.
  • Mexico is California’s #2 export market and #1 export destination, with a 2023 total of $33.3 billion.
  • California imported more than $61.5 billion dollars’ worth of goods from Mexico in 2023, making our state #3 in the U.S. for imports from Mexico.
• The CA — MX border community is home to over 7 million people across the shared boundary and the busiest land port of entry in the Western Hemisphere.
  • Over 7 million people live along the 150-mile border between California and Baja California (Source: CalTrans, 2022)
  • The San Ysidro Port of Entry is the busiest land port of entry in the Western Hemisphere. (Source: General Services Agency)
• Every day, millions of people cross our shared border with Mexico for work, travel and business, powering economies that transcend borders.
  • There are 4 million annual northbound border crossings via commercial truck, of which 1.6 million (21.2%) pass through ports of entry on the California-Mexico border.
  • The Otay Mesa Port of Entry received over 1 million inbound trucks in 2023, accounting for 14.1% of trucks crossing from Mexico to the U.S.
    • The only other U.S.-Mexico border crossing with higher volumes of inbound truck traffic is Laredo, Texas, with over 2.9 million incoming trucks (39.9%) in 2023.