calexico is intriguing because so much is reversed in calexico. collects oh as many of you may know is a crossroads town. the cosmopolitan city is on the other side of the border, mexicali. that is where 1.5 billion people live in the sprawl of calexico. and in mexicali is the state capitol and the university and the symphony and the all-night body houses and really good restaurants. everything closes down at dinnertime, which is maybe 6:00. even in calexico and calexico is an imperial town which hits the bottom of everything in california, education, health, air quality, water quality, all of these things where california counties, imperial counties is the worst. and life in calexico as it has been, for those of you who are from here and know what it used to be like going back and forth across the border, life in calexico for calexico's was a mix life, going across the border and coming back and living until the wall went up. that which is called a fence in some places or a border in some places where there isn't even anything except say sand is