Border Towns Sketchier Than Ever Amid Biden-Harris Invasion
The border has been seedy and dangerous for a long time. The Biden Border Invasion has made it worse.
To visit or not to visit Mexico? If you do, know where you are going and study the route. Travel during the day. Be careful.
Some Americans don’t want to visit Mexico at all, and I understand that. Some would just prefer to travel in the U.S. and of course, there is plenty to see in the United States.
Others have heard of the violence in Mexico and don’t want to risk being caught up in it.
On the other hand, some will criticize you for saying that Mexico is dangerous – and it can be.
The U.S. State Department has a useful travel advisory page which actually breaks Mexico down state by state.
I recently returned from a trip south of the border, and didn’t encounter any criminal, legal, or mechanical problems, which is always good when traveling anywhere.
I actually lived in Mexico for many years and my wife, now a naturalized U.S. citizen, is a native of Mexico.
On this trip, we visited and stayed in the same city where we previously resided. We had to take care of some things.
My wife has some real estate in Mexico and had to do some legal work she could only do in Mexico.
We also recovered some personal and family items. My wife’s parents both passed away within the past five years, so there was much to process.
Many Americans travel to Mexico. In calendar year 2023, there were 36.71 million Americans who traveled to Mexico, an increase over the previous year’s total of 33.54 million.
There are actually 1.6 million Americans who live in Mexico, as I once did.
Americans who live in Mexico are English teachers, retirees, missionaries, businesspeople, employees of American corporations – and nowadays, “digital nomads” who work online and can live anywhere.
For me, residing in Mexico was a real education.
One important aspect was seeing immigration from the other side of the border. I learned that Mexicans don’t see immigration to the United States the same way that Americans view it.
On our trip, we entered Mexico at one border crossing and exited via another.
In the city where we stayed, I encountered some Hondurans begging from cars on a street. And that’s not the first time I’ve met Hondurans in Mexico. Hondurans have been passing through since before the Biden Border Invasion.
In some ways, the border area (on both sides) has long been a region unto itself. It can attract some sketchy characters from all over.
For example, I was once on the Mexican side and encountered an American who boasted of being on the lam from the law in the U.S.
Over the years I’ve crossed the border many times. Depending on the traffic, doing so in an automobile can take a long time.
We crossed back into the U.S. from Piedras Negras to Eagle Pass, Texas.
This crossing has often been in the news in recent times. It’s Ground Zero for Governor Abbott’s much-ballyhooed border operation, which hasn’t lived up to the hype but is more than any other border governor is doing.
Our crossing from Piedras Negras to Eagle Pass took two and a half hours and we almost ran out of gas. It wasn’t because the process took longer, it’s just that there were so many cars.
There is a hill on the Mexican side overlooking the Rio Grande and the U.S. beyond. Before we crossed, I stood on that hill and looked down on the border. I saw a line of shipping containers with wire forming a makeshift border barrier.
It’s better than nothing, but when is our country going to have a decent border barrier and an effective border policy?
You can find more of Allan Wall's work at his website and Mexico News Report.
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