AGREE? SHERIFF JOE: 'NO TOURISM TO MEXICO'

[billt]

Electric fence. I'm sure Arizona wouldn't mind diverting the power from L.A. 

Not as long as they run 30,000 volts through it!      Bill T.

[Solus]

Posted this before:

Dig a moat along the US-Mexico border.
Stock it with the excess gators and pythons from the Florida swamps.
Use the excess dirt from digging the moat to shore up the levees around New Orleans.
 

If you want FQ's support on this, you better have Iguanas in that moat too.

[billt]

If you want FQ's support on this, you better have Iguanas in that moat too.

Just fill it with water from the Salton Sea. No one would dare set foot in it, man or beast!   Bill T.

[tfr270]

I've boycotted Mexico for years now. Of course, you never can say for sure if some of your dollars don't end up down there...if the restaurant you eat at shares tips I'm sure it has...But no travel/tourism from me. One of my ex friends, a second generation legal immigrant who married an illegal, asked why I didn't vacation in Mexico instead of going all the way to Hawaii. I said I didn't trust the Mexican law or Government to keep me safe and didn't feel like being a prisoner inside of a resort. 

As far as border control? Post 911 we saw armed guardsmen in our airports and on our bridges. Why not on our borders? There are terrorists, criminals, and gang members crossing the border. Heck, we should be using the border as a "training" area for all of our combat forces.

[bulldog75]

The military and their spouses have been barred since before 2003.

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[fightingquaker13]

The military and their spouses have been barred since before 2003.
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That I did not know. I had thought it was still fairly safe in places like Baja and the Yucatan. It seemed that the border areas and major cities were the worst. The stuff spreads though.
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[Timothy]

I don't believe the military is barred from Mexico but have been "strongly urged" not to travel to Mexico.  They must fill out some special travel documents prior to making the plans.

[bulldog75]

In 2003 during my first deployment were told that if you were caught in Mexico you would recieve a article 15 (Captians mast for squids). The base Commander at Ft. Bliss made it off limits. There was 6 soldiers that were caught by the Juarez police and when they missed movement to a combat zone they were waiting to be court marshaled.

[Timothy]

I'll take you at your word Bulldog, Base CO's can surely make certain restrictions for their troops.  I"m pretty sure places like Tijuana are off limits these days.

We had some similar restrictions when I was overseas as well though not necessarily for violent locals.

[jnevis]

When I was stationed in San Deigo(96-99), Tijuana wasn't officially "off limits" but was "highly encouraged" not to go there.  If you did you had to sign out/in with the duty office.  We had a guy that was living with his GF (Mexican national) and signed out after work every night and checked back in on the way back in.  I do seem to recall the rules changing not long after I left making all of TJ off limits at least.