... new one or the old one? Don't know. Last time I was down there was before I moved up to Nashville, and that was nearly eleven years ago now. Progresso is, IMO, the most fun of the border towns. It does not feel at all uncomfortable like Laredo, Tiajuana or Juarez. Ciudad Acuna used to be that way but the last time I was there, it had changed. And of course Boquillas is no longer...
... two miles long the last time I was there. You know, that bridge there is privately owned, don't you? The new one or the old one? Progresso is, IMO, the most fun of the border towns. It does not feel at all uncomfortable like Laredo, Tiajuana or Juarez. Ciudad Acuna used to be that way but the last time I was there, it had changed. And of course Boquillas is no longer accessible at ...
... actually gets their property | >> condemned to build the fence. | >> | >> <http://www.alternet.org/stories/77320/?page=entire... Texas Observer. Posted February 19, 2008. | >> | >> Most border residents couldn't believe the fence would ever be built... summer when residents were approached by uniformed Border Patrol | >> agents. They asked people to sign ...
... the flow of big pharma's money to the Mexican border towns as well....after all, we can't have people ...not. The requirement of having a passport to cross the border (at $127 a pop IIRC) is coming and the border guards are real assholes these days. It's all part and... not actively trying to prosecute quite as much. And, the border guards have always been assholes... though I'll easily ...
... actually gets their property | >> condemned to build the fence. | >> | >> <http://www.alternet.org/stories/77320/?page=entire>..., Texas Observer. Posted February 19, 2008. | >> | >> Most border residents couldn't believe the fence would ever be built ...last summer when residents were approached by uniformed Border Patrol | >> agents. They asked people to sign ...
... the side effect of stemming the flow of big pharma's money to the Mexican border towns as well....after all, we can't have people getting their drugs at fair...Well, no, actually they have not. The requirement of having a passport to cross the border (at $127 a pop IIRC) is coming and the border guards are real assholes these days. It's all part and parcel of the new Homeland Security...
... gets their property | | >> condemned to build the fence. | | >> | | >> <http://www.alternet.org/stories/77320/?page=entire... Texas Observer. Posted February 19, 2008. | | >> | | >> Most border residents couldn't believe the fence would ever be ... summer when residents were approached by uniformed Border | Patrol | | >> agents. They asked people to sign ...
...>> maintain it, it can easily fall into public domain. By building this fence as much as a mile inland from the Mexican border, Chertoff and Washington are effectively ceding US teritory BACK to Mexico... in ...of stemming the flow of big pharma's money to the Mexican border towns as well....after all, we can't have people getting their ...
... actually gets their property | | >> condemned to build the fence. | | >> | | >> <http://www.alternet.org/stories/77320/?page=entire>..., Texas Observer. Posted February 19, 2008. | | >> | | >> Most border residents couldn't believe the fence would ever be built |... summer when residents were approached by uniformed Border | Patrol | | >> agents. They asked people to sign ...
...> maintain it, it can easily fall into public domain. By building this fence as much as a mile inland from the Mexican border, Chertoff and Washington are effectively ceding US teritory BACK to Mexico... in ... effect of stemming the flow of big pharma's money to the Mexican border towns as well....after all, we can't have people getting their ...
