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US to leave Mexican border crossing to rangers (proposal to open an unmanned port of entry)
Associated Press ^ | 12/11/2011 | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; borderwars; dems; for; gunrunner; illegals; impeachment; invite2terrorists; sedition; shadowwar; threatmatrix; treason; vote; wod; wosd; wot
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1 posted on 12/11/2011 12:52:02 PM PST by Just4Him
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To: Just4Him

I’m pretty sure that’s what we already have.


2 posted on 12/11/2011 12:52:51 PM PST by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
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To: americanophile

Why even have a border.


3 posted on 12/11/2011 12:54:12 PM PST by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: Just4Him

The DemocRATS’ internal polls must be looking pretty grim. Gotta get more illegals in here to help out with the vote in November.


4 posted on 12/11/2011 12:54:12 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Stop BIG Government Greed Now!!!!)
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To: Just4Him

Voters for Democrats. The Country is done


5 posted on 12/11/2011 12:54:27 PM PST by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: Just4Him
If it is that remote what in the hell should Mexicans be there to at all.
6 posted on 12/11/2011 12:57:16 PM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Newt, Willard, Perry and his fellow supporters)
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To: Just4Him

1. Gun-smuggling stings with no gun-tracking
2. Money-laundering stings with NO arrests
3. BP murdered on patrol, possibly by FBI informant
4. ICE officer murdered in Mexico
5. Innovative border checkpoints with NO guards

Conclusion: US authorities *ARE* major drug-dealers


7 posted on 12/11/2011 12:57:56 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Just4Him

Another step toward the NAU?


9 posted on 12/11/2011 1:00:12 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: gaijin

Pretty much


10 posted on 12/11/2011 1:00:26 PM PST by Just4Him (The truth shall set you free. John 8:32)
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To: Just4Him

Better yet, I wonder how many have actually gotten across...


11 posted on 12/11/2011 1:01:17 PM PST by Just4Him (The truth shall set you free. John 8:32)
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To: Just4Him

only 9 posts for a story like this?


12 posted on 12/11/2011 1:01:31 PM PST by plain talk
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To: gaijin
Conclusion: US authorities *ARE* major drug-dealers

There's lots of money in illegal drugs.

Who uses these drugs?

Which groups on the political spectrum are well-known users of illegal drugs?

Which groups on the political spectrum are well-known advocates of legalizing illegal drugs?

13 posted on 12/11/2011 1:02:47 PM PST by thecodont
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To: plain talk

Strange. I noticed some posts were deleted, including mine. Didn’t say anything offensive.


14 posted on 12/11/2011 1:04:45 PM PST by Just4Him (The truth shall set you free. John 8:32)
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To: Just4Him

They would have to be one tough hombre to cross the border at Big Bend and hike across the park to civilization.


15 posted on 12/11/2011 1:05:49 PM PST by trumandogz (If Rick Perry cannot secure his own Internet domain name, how could he be trusted to secure America?)
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To: Just4Him

What did you say???


16 posted on 12/11/2011 1:07:25 PM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Newt, Willard, Perry and his fellow supporters)
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To: Just4Him

I have walked across the border to Boquillas. There is nothing there except a few adobe huts and some burros. The river is very shallow. No bridge. Boquillas is a dusty little nothing town. I am not even sure you can access it from Mexico. It is at the bottom of Buquillas Canyon, on the Mexican side.


17 posted on 12/11/2011 1:18:52 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: Just4Him

I have walked across the border to Boquillas. There is nothing there except a few adobe huts and some burros. The river is very shallow. No bridge. Boquillas is a dusty little nothing town. I am not even sure you can access it from Mexico. It is at the bottom of Boquillas Canyon, on the Mexican side.


18 posted on 12/11/2011 1:19:17 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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"I have walked across the border to Boquillas. There is nothing there except a few adobe huts and some burros."

One of the few places that is actually in the middle of nowhere and quite beautiful and very rugged.

All this border crossing will do is to legitimize the border crossing for those who have the credentials to cross the border.

All of those who do not have the credentials will continue to walk across just like you have and I have.

19 posted on 12/11/2011 1:25:56 PM PST by trumandogz (If Rick Perry cannot secure his own Internet domain name, how could he be trusted to secure America?)
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To: Just4Him

Turn the border over to U.S. Citizen militias and give them a green light. Done.

The Fed Gov is too busy crapping in it’s pants and sitting in it, to be of any use.


20 posted on 12/11/2011 1:34:10 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Why back in '88, Conservatives backed Gore in Texas. What Reagan revolution? What legacy?)
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