Buoy
Founding Member
As many of you know, I'm living out here in AZ, and the whole immigration issue is very big in the media and politics recently. I don't think the rest of the country realizes what is really going on out here.
I live in Tempe (Phoenix suburb) - about 1/2 hr from the desert.
The thing the news isn't telling you is that the smuggling - both drugs, and people - IS REAL!!! We have it every day.
My wife had to travel to Tijuana on Monday for a meeting.
She dropped her truck in San Diego, and took a ride over the border to go to her meeting on Tuesday.
Crossed back to the States today, and picked her truck back up to drive home. Punched the button on the GPS that said "HOME", and started following the directions.
She wound up on some back road, and was shortly stopped by the Border Patrol. They went through her credentials, and did a visual search of the vehicle - worried she was smuggling (people, not drugs). She was freaked out, and they told her that her type of vehicle would be used for smuggling (Black H3 with blacked out windows) - the border guards were very polite, and just did there job very professionally - but none-the-less, she was freaked out just being stopped.
While with the border guards, one of them asked her while pointing 100 yds away to the South "Do you know what that is"? - it was a canvas fence about 5' tall. "That's Mexico". My wife asks "so they just jump over it"? - "Yeah, pretty much"
They let her go, but told her to get directly to the highway, and stay away from the border (IN OUR OWN COUNTRY).
She only took that route because the GPS told her that was the way (and she is directionally challenged...).
The BP is doing a great job, and doing their job professionally. I applaud them, and my wife applauds them.
We appreciate what they are doing and what a tough task it must be, as well as the risk they put themselves into to protect our country.:USA:
I live in Tempe (Phoenix suburb) - about 1/2 hr from the desert.
The thing the news isn't telling you is that the smuggling - both drugs, and people - IS REAL!!! We have it every day.
My wife had to travel to Tijuana on Monday for a meeting.
She dropped her truck in San Diego, and took a ride over the border to go to her meeting on Tuesday.
Crossed back to the States today, and picked her truck back up to drive home. Punched the button on the GPS that said "HOME", and started following the directions.
She wound up on some back road, and was shortly stopped by the Border Patrol. They went through her credentials, and did a visual search of the vehicle - worried she was smuggling (people, not drugs). She was freaked out, and they told her that her type of vehicle would be used for smuggling (Black H3 with blacked out windows) - the border guards were very polite, and just did there job very professionally - but none-the-less, she was freaked out just being stopped.
While with the border guards, one of them asked her while pointing 100 yds away to the South "Do you know what that is"? - it was a canvas fence about 5' tall. "That's Mexico". My wife asks "so they just jump over it"? - "Yeah, pretty much"
They let her go, but told her to get directly to the highway, and stay away from the border (IN OUR OWN COUNTRY).
She only took that route because the GPS told her that was the way (and she is directionally challenged...).
The BP is doing a great job, and doing their job professionally. I applaud them, and my wife applauds them.
We appreciate what they are doing and what a tough task it must be, as well as the risk they put themselves into to protect our country.:USA:
Donna
