Informal Border Crossing Will Open at Texas' Big Bend

[cavegal]

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/01/07/informal-border-crossing-open-texas-big-bend/

AP story... a must read.

[thundley4]

"What's good for one side of the border is good for the other side of the border. This is one, bi-national region," Bersin told a small group of reporters in Big Bend

Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/01/07/informal-border-crossing-open-texas-big-bend/#ixzz1ArChUW6K

That is just what they want to hear.

[longview]

I heard about this.

Yeah, things are going sooooo well along that border, let's make it more porous.  Good grief!

[true_blood]

I heard about this.

Yeah, things are going sooooo well along that border, let's make it more porous.  Good grief!

Don't worry Janet Nappytano is/has been to Afghanistan. She'll take care of that problem and come home and take care of our borders in the South.
What a joke this administration. From the top to the bottom.

[Dammit]

I heard about this.

Yeah, things are going sooooo well along that border, let's make it more porous.  Good grief!

I don't think you could make it more porous. The politicians in this country are so useless. 

[Alpha Mare]

Maybe they should ask the locals.

County needs a few old men to battle Big Bend border struggle

The new breed of drug traffickers reopening the old trails are more brutal and better armed. Two rival cartels now operate there.

"I'm still of the hope that the only people they're killing is themselves," says Dodson.

"The Border patrol's watching this and they're doing a good job of stopping it right here.  But just right down the river they're doing it again. They're going across," says the sheriff.

One old bridge leading to Mexico is barricaded because it was shut down in the early 90s. Now some locals want it reopened to promote tourism. But the sheriff and others in law enforcement say it will only turn this a bigger and better staging ground for the smugglers who operate there.
Sheriff Dodson relies on eight deputies to cover the vast county.

"I have a deputy who lives on a ranch right now, that if he called for help, it would be probably an hour and a half to two hours to get to him. He's actually better than the last one I had on a ranch because it would have been a 3 hour drive to get to him," says Dodson.

"As they increase security east and west  it's going to funnel it right through here.But we're kind of gearing up for it, dreading it," says Terlingua resident Blair Pittman.

The signs are troubling.

"We're up about 100% on burglaries. They're terrorizing us. They're stealing the guns. They're stealing jewelry," Dodson reports.

The sheriff says he could use a half dozen more deputies.

Sixty-three-year-old deputy Martin Willey was set to retire in 4 days when we met him in the tiny town Terlingua.

"The Sheriff''s 100 miles away in case you need back up, but the locals out here will assist you in any way they can," says Willey. This story might remind you of that movie "No Country for Old Men". But this sheriff says now more than ever he needs the old men.

"They've forgotten more than some of these young guys will know," he says. "And those are the kind of guys we need back training. We need some of that old man still here."

http://www.kens5.com/news/County-needs--93827199.html


Anyone remember this?

MARFA - Jamie Heffley, bleeding from bullet wounds, soaking wet, shivering in the cold, lay on the banks of the Rio Grande and waited to die.

Minutes after her husband was killed by a sniper's bullet to the back, Heffley clawed a hole in the sand, rolled into it and buried herself in leaves.
"I felt I was going to die, and I was digging my own grave,"

 "They were hunting us down like animals."

Her husband fell backward to the ground.
"It was the end. He knew it.
"I said, `Are you dying?' He said: `Well, I'm paralyzed, I know that. Yeah, baby. I'm dyin

  

http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1989_655948

Yeah, this is a wonderful idea.

[vesta111]

Maybe they should ask the locals.
http://www.kens5.com/news/County-needs--93827199.html


Anyone remember this?
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1989_655948

Yeah, this is a wonderful idea.

Oh Alpha, what a beautiful land our South West is, I had forgotten the vast spaces out there.

I came across on RT. 10 from San Francisco headed for Maine, way back, with 4 kids under the age of 9, a Saint Bernard and in time I have forgotten incredible beauty of that area.  We had a few questionable incidents even back then and in my heart I believe we survived any problem only because of our huge dog that was not common in the desert at that time.

We stopped in Demming New Mexico to visit the church my grandparents had been married in when my grandfather was out chasing Poncho
with the Army. It was a nice town back then, I would be afraid to go back and see what has become of it.

What a blasted shame to have Americans afraid of visiting our Glorious South West.

WTF have we allowed our country to become??