Tomas, who DOES speak Spanish (though his family came to TX when it was New Spain) said that several of the OTM seemed to be from East Asia & he thought that they might be Chinese nationality.
Other members of the group that he caught seemed to be from SEVERAL nations & spoke “Everything except Spanish”, according to Tomas.
I cannot tell you how these ILLEGALS entered Mexico but OTM are REALLY COMMON now as “border crossers”/ILLEGAL ALIENS.
On another subject: in 1986, during The Texas Wagon Train, I was told the following story by an old-time USBP agent:
I was working the border area then, south & just east of the line. I entered a small Mexican cafe & saw a man who appeared to be a Mexican national & who was eating a big plate of food.
I asked him, “Senor, of what country are you a citizen?”
He said, “Of Mexico, Senior.”
I said, “OK. What are you doing on this side of the border?”
The man said, “I’m eating tamales”.
I allowed him to finish his lunch & then apprehended him to return him to Mexico.
When I put him up on my horse behind me, “Ole Blue” started cutting up & pitched us both into a patch of Spanish Dagger & Prickly Pear.
As I picked the stickers out of my hide, I thought, “I’d bet that this is the first time that one Blue Roan stud-horse has thrown the citizens of 2 different countries into the same patch of cactus.”
When the old-time BP Agent finished his story, I couldn’t help but laugh.
yours, tex
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Bravissimo! Thank your BP friend for hilarious story. Lord, what absolutely worthless piles of primate protoplasm these crossers are... “eating tamales”.
And, having been thrown into just such a really nasty thorned prickly pear— know what he means.
This has to stop— permanently. Not the Bush El Norte future Aztlan America...no more.