Go Canes!
In all seriousness, it's a shame you can't go into Mexico anymore. Northern Mexico has turned into Helmand Province, and the Administration is sitting on the news. Nobody goes there who wants to remain alive.
Best,
Chris
Posted on 12/28/2010 6:11:25 AM PST by Libloather
Notre Dame and Miami players banned from crossing border into Mexico
By DARA KELLY, IrishCentral.com Staff Writer
Updated Tuesday, December 28, 2010, 8:04 AM
Players from both the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Miami Hurricanes have been banned from crossing the border into Mexico during their free time before the Sun Bowl.
In fact Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly see Mexico, one of the worlds most dangerous cities, as such a threat and temptation for his players that he has taken his players passports away before they fly to El Paso, according to the Globe and Mail.
The Miami Hurricanes also did not bring their passports. The teams also met with a local law enforcement officers to emphasize the dangers with the players.
El Paso is at the border to Cuidad Juarez which is the center of a massive drugs war. More that 3,000 people were murdered in this city in 2010 and most crimes go uninvestigated.
***In fact Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly see Mexico, one of the worlds most dangerous cities... ***
Surely this is a misprint, right? I mean, almost everybody with any brain at all knows that Mexico is a country, not a city, right?
The city of Mexico is in one of our 57 states, Guacamole, I think.
Smart move.
Mind thinking faster than his verbal processing rate. I am sure that he two thoughts: Mexico is a very dangerous country, Juarez is a very dangerous city. Then probably thought that claiming all of Mexico is very dangerous, he shift to say “city.”
Common in interviews, depositions, etc.
“... he has taken his players passports away ...”
Go Canes!
In all seriousness, it's a shame you can't go into Mexico anymore. Northern Mexico has turned into Helmand Province, and the Administration is sitting on the news. Nobody goes there who wants to remain alive.
Best,
Chris
Only an idiot would go into Juarez nowadays, but somebody ought to tell the Irish coach that you don’t need a passport to go into Juarez from El Paso.
Leftover combat fatigues from 1987?
“Passports! Passports? We don’ need no stinking passports!”
In the 70s, I flew my plane into Mexico, landing in Taxco.
I never had a passport until the late 90s.
I also went to Bahamas, Jamaica, Dominican Republic...
Never needed a passport.
It appears they left some letters/words out of the article.
Perhaps these: “s Cuidad Juarez, “
Evidently neither geography nor English grammar are being taught at ND these days.
And MANY F.R. posts. Not only have I seen it (over and over and over), I have done it myself a few times over the years.
It did not appear to me that the article was quoting the coach. I think the mistake/typo was the reporter’s.
The requirement for having a passport to cross into/out of Mexico, Canada and the Carribean Islands which are (or are controlled by) foreign nations, did not go in to effect until just a very few years ago. 2006, maybe?
But... but.. Moochelle 0bama says Mexico is safe for tourists!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2494756/posts
The US passport is required for re entrance into the US by US nationals, not for entrance to e.g. Canada, since Canada recognizes alternative forms of identification such as birth certificates. It’s the TSA of (now) Janet Incompetano that requires it and only within its jurisdiction. We really have ceased to be citizens and have become subjects...
“The requirement for having a passport to cross into/out of Mexico, Canada and the Carribean Islands which are (or are controlled by) foreign nations, did not go in to effect until just a very few years ago. 2006, maybe?”
I have no idea. I did not have a passport until the 90s.
Prior to that, I never needed a passport anywhere in North America or the Caribbean.
I am now on my second passport. My first one was so full, I had to have pages A to X added before it expired.
Apparently nobody has told you that since June of 2009 you need either a passport or WHTI document to get back in the States.
***In fact Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly see Mexico, one of the worlds most dangerous cities... ***
Surely this is a misprint, right? I mean, almost everybody with any brain at all knows that Mexico is a country, not a city, right?
All I can say is, wow, the admission standards for Notre Dame’s Journalism program have certainly slipped.
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