[Dianna]

So did you call their bluff and make them prove they were or did you just pay them off?

After 40 minutes of badgering (during which I was under the impression that we had no cash), my husband's friend coughed up $20 and they let us go.

They declined our request to accompany us to the border to visit an ATM and wouldn't let us look at their ID. We weren't quite sure what would happen if we tried to just walk away.

[_Jim]

my husband's friend coughed up $20 and they let us go.

They must have been short of 'lunch money' that day ...

[Texasforever]

So, you don't know for sure if they were in fact "Federales"? BTW, what did they say your "crime" was?