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US proposes unmanned border crossing with Mexico
ap ^ | 12/11/11 | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN

Posted on 12/11/2011 5:26:09 PM PST by Nachum

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas (AP) -- The bloody drug war in Mexico shows no sign of relenting. Neither do calls for tighter border security amid rising fears of spillover violence.

This hardly seems a time the U.S. would be willing to allow people to cross the border legally from Mexico without a customs officer in sight. But in this rugged, remote West Texas terrain where wading across the shallow Rio Grande undetected is all too easy, federal authorities are touting a proposal to open an unmanned port of entry as a security upgrade.

By the spring, kiosks could open up in Big Bend National Park allowing people from the tiny Mexican town of Boquillas del Carmen to scan their identity documents and talk to a customs officer in another location, at least 100 miles away.

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TOPICS: Government; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; borderwars; crossing; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist; immigration; landmines; mexico; unmanned
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1 posted on 12/11/2011 5:26:13 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

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2 posted on 12/11/2011 5:27:49 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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I knew nothing good would follow when they shut down the insane asylums.


3 posted on 12/11/2011 5:30:14 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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To: Nachum

The Feds never cease to amaze me.


4 posted on 12/11/2011 5:32:27 PM PST by lahargis (Out with Barry in with Perry. Perry is our energy candidate!)
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To: Nachum

The kiosk will be equipped with a scale so the mules will be protected by OSHA from having to carry excessively heavy loads. Dope bundles will have to weigh less than 35 pounds to gain admission.


5 posted on 12/11/2011 5:37:23 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
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6 posted on 12/11/2011 5:53:14 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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7 posted on 12/11/2011 5:54:24 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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That remote border agent can double as the admissions officer for illegals at UT.


8 posted on 12/11/2011 5:56:37 PM PST by TADSLOS (Lexicon Genetics- Rick Perry's Solyndra Moment)
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To: Nachum

>The Obama corridor<

Good name for it ..

Insanity at it’s finest.
Hopefully people will finally say enough is enough. This should get a lot of attention. I think that the American people will reject it in great numbers.


9 posted on 12/11/2011 5:59:31 PM PST by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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bump


10 posted on 12/11/2011 6:00:03 PM PST by lowbridge (Rep. Dingell: "Its taken a long time.....to control the people.")
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This little village is really in the middle of nowhere, it doesn’t even show up on the maps. Google “Rio Grande Village TX” to get an idea of where it is, it’s right across the river.

“Gonzalez, a 34-year-old father of three, described his town as “very sad, very hard” and said there was no work. Without access to the Rio Grande Village store, residents depend on a bus that runs once a week to Melchor Muzquiz, a larger town about 150 miles away, for supplies.

A small military presence protects the town from the drug-related violence that has engulfed other Mexican border towns. Now with news of the port of entry, residents are already making plans for restaurants and shops, he said.

“When it closed nobody crossed and everything went downhill. People began to leave,” he said. “Now people are going to return.””


11 posted on 12/11/2011 6:09:20 PM PST by Pelham (Islam. The original Evil Empire)
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then why not open it wide and then see what happens. I’ll gas up my car and drive north.


12 posted on 12/11/2011 6:37:11 PM PST by television is just wrong
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Put up a sign saying “bienvenidos” Amigo’s


13 posted on 12/11/2011 6:41:27 PM PST by Venturer
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The conduit for the invasion of America....


14 posted on 12/11/2011 6:41:39 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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The conduit for the invasion of America....


15 posted on 12/11/2011 6:41:39 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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The conduit for the invasion of America....


16 posted on 12/11/2011 6:41:39 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Nachum

Boquillas has been a major illegal and drug smuggling crossing for years. And according to the park super, not an International Border, but just a river.

I’m sure the “kiosk” will change everything.


17 posted on 12/11/2011 6:47:19 PM PST by Double Tap
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“send us your poor, tired, drunk, felons, child molesters, future dem voters .........”


18 posted on 12/11/2011 6:54:09 PM PST by mriguy67
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To: Nachum


19 posted on 12/11/2011 7:19:04 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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Isn’t that what most of the border already is?


20 posted on 12/11/2011 7:40:01 PM PST by A. Patriot (Have we lost our Republic? Do the majority of Americans care?)
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