Posted on 12/11/2011 5:26:09 PM PST by Nachum
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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I knew nothing good would follow when they shut down the insane asylums.
The Feds never cease to amaze me.
The kiosk will be equipped with a scale so the mules will be protected by OSHA from having to carry excessively heavy loads. Dope bundles will have to weigh less than 35 pounds to gain admission.
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That remote border agent can double as the admissions officer for illegals at UT.
>The Obama corridor<
Good name for it ..
Insanity at it’s finest.
Hopefully people will finally say enough is enough. This should get a lot of attention. I think that the American people will reject it in great numbers.
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This little village is really in the middle of nowhere, it doesn’t even show up on the maps. Google “Rio Grande Village TX” to get an idea of where it is, it’s right across the river.
“Gonzalez, a 34-year-old father of three, described his town as “very sad, very hard” and said there was no work. Without access to the Rio Grande Village store, residents depend on a bus that runs once a week to Melchor Muzquiz, a larger town about 150 miles away, for supplies.
A small military presence protects the town from the drug-related violence that has engulfed other Mexican border towns. Now with news of the port of entry, residents are already making plans for restaurants and shops, he said.
“When it closed nobody crossed and everything went downhill. People began to leave,” he said. “Now people are going to return.””
then why not open it wide and then see what happens. I’ll gas up my car and drive north.
Put up a sign saying “bienvenidos” Amigo’s
The conduit for the invasion of America....
The conduit for the invasion of America....
The conduit for the invasion of America....
Boquillas has been a major illegal and drug smuggling crossing for years. And according to the park super, not an International Border, but just a river.
I’m sure the “kiosk” will change everything.
“send us your poor, tired, drunk, felons, child molesters, future dem voters .........”
Isn’t that what most of the border already is?
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