The Bureau of Customs and Border Protection in the Department of Homeland Security has changed the operating hours for the U.S.-Mexico border crossing in Otay Mesa

San Diego Business Journal, June 30, 2003 by Mandy Jackson

Gradual Transition: The Bureau of Customs and Border Protection in the Department of Homeland Security has changed the operating hours for the U.S.-Mexico border crossing in Otay Mesa, and will leave it open 24 hours a day later this summer.

Until June 15, it was open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. for passenger vehicles entering the United States. It is now open two hours earlier and closes two hours later each day -- from 4 a.m. to midnight. Hours for cargo truck lanes will not be changed.

Last year, 10 million people in 4 million cars were processed in the 13 passenger vehicle lanes crossing the border in Otay Mesa.

Eight miles to the west in San Ysidro, the world's busiest land border crossing, 42.2 million people in 15.3 million cars passed through the 24 lanes there.