Posted on 12/11/2011 12:51:59 PM PST by Just4Him
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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You posted a picture and said it was 500,000 illegals in Dallas. That’s not true. The rest of my words were copy and pasted from an article on Google....
Sorry pal, it’s not ignorant to look up facts and post them and I am not an open border pologist
[I wish that open border troll would get the zot. ]
I’m not an open border troll. I merely posted some facts I copy and pasted from Google articles and asked a question that you didn’t like.
He makes hitler look sane doesn’t he?Do you see what I mean in that article that he is beyond narcissism?
If someone wants to cross the Rio Grande there all they need to do is walk across, just as they have done for hundreds of years. This unmanned border crossing will not increase illegal alien crossing.
“And what is the US government opening a border wide up going to do?Make them all run like hell back to Mexico? NOT!”
That border has been open wide ever since it became a border in 1836. It is no more secure today than it was during any time in history.
The kiosk will not encougage people to sneak across the border.
If they want to cross the border there, wall they need to do is to simple walk.
Exactly. If people want to try and illegally emigrate to the US there are far more likely crossing points. Interestingly enough, I actually have relatives who are from there - my great aunt’s family lives in the area. The family has been there ranching, on both sides of the border, ever since the Mexican-American war. And from talking with them, I can help explain the situation there. You got people there who own land on either side of the border, who cross to visit their immediate family on the other side, or tend to their land. And as it has been mentioned, the main access to a store comes from the shops across the river. They already row back and forth all the time, all this is doing is making it so they have access to a legal way to cross the border there.
I’ve backtracked through the posts. I’d appreciate if dragnet2 would post a link to the pics and the article. That way they can be verified. I believe that is forum protocol.
Thanks for making a great point, potlatch. If the links aren’t provided to back up a post, then that post should be disregarded and, indeed, could be deemed to be propaganda.
Oh yes I can certainly see what you mean
Nobody said it would increase.
But it is good that you now admit you don’t have to be one tough hombre to cross there.
The most transparent criminal administration in US history
Man it with automated .50 cal bots.
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