Wow— Other than Mexican— amazing information. Agree with you r registering etc the needed workers.
Now— as to how did these OTMs get into Mexico? How did Cameroonian Africans get there— by air, freighter? How.
They cannot be allowed into the US, much less Mexico. This is the drug cartel’s money at work over... in Africa would bet.
Tomas, who DOES speak Spanish (though his family came to TX when it was New Spain) said that several of the OTM seemed to be from East Asia & he thought that they might be Chinese nationality.
Other members of the group that he caught seemed to be from SEVERAL nations & spoke “Everything except Spanish”, according to Tomas.
I cannot tell you how these ILLEGALS entered Mexico but OTM are REALLY COMMON now as “border crossers”/ILLEGAL ALIENS.
On another subject: in 1986, during The Texas Wagon Train, I was told the following story by an old-time USBP agent:
I was working the border area then, south & just east of the line. I entered a small Mexican cafe & saw a man who appeared to be a Mexican national & who was eating a big plate of food.
I asked him, “Senor, of what country are you a citizen?”
He said, “Of Mexico, Senior.”
I said, “OK. What are you doing on this side of the border?”
The man said, “I’m eating tamales”.
I allowed him to finish his lunch & then apprehended him to return him to Mexico.
When I put him up on my horse behind me, “Ole Blue” started cutting up & pitched us both into a patch of Spanish Dagger & Prickly Pear.
As I picked the stickers out of my hide, I thought, “I’d bet that this is the first time that one Blue Roan stud-horse has thrown the citizens of 2 different countries into the same patch of cactus.”
When the old-time BP Agent finished his story, I couldn’t help but laugh.
yours, tex
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OTMs have been crossing over for years. Many of the first ones were Middle Easterners trying to pass as Mexican.