Wife did not make it past homeland and got k-1 cancelled

[Tinchen_ 21]

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or that lol... but it would be great if u could update us on it. cuz ppl are here to help and curios how it played out and if their advice was helpful or not.

i dont know whats up here but thats like the third or fourth thread i read this week,what sounds sooo fishy. whats going on with ppl lol..

i just know this side is amazing helped me so much thru my k1 process and now aos process.so im more then happy to help ppl when i can. and others are always so helpful here. so i just dont like it when ppl do lie about stuff and are fishy.. not saying he is.maybe or maybe not who knows. (guess vented a lil bit here lol hihihihih uhps sorry lol )

[LEISEROM 32]

My wife has been a USC since 1994. This incident happened maybe 6 years ago. We have crossed the border into Laredo lots of times before them and also into Mexicali,Juarez and Mataomoros. Plus at Big Bend Park at the non-policed crossings they used to have. We used to like driving to the border. Not these days for obvious reasons. Progresso was the only time we were ever hassled.

The reason I dont have a timeline is we went thru this process(K1-AOS-Citizen) back in the late 80's and early 90's. Before internet. I like reading this forum. As somewhat of an old-timer sometimes I can contribute.

[TBoneTX 46,117]

My wife has been a USC since 1994. This incident happened maybe 6 years ago. We have crossed the border into Laredo lots of times before them and also into Mexicali,Juarez and Mataomoros. Plus at Big Bend Park at the non-policed crossings they used to have. We used to like driving to the border. Not these days for obvious reasons. Progresso was the only time we were ever hassled.

Along the Tex-Mex border, the biggest consistent danger to life and freedom is the inland CBP station south of Alpine, Texas.

I think that the Progreso CBP started getting more diligent (or irritated) when tourist traffic plummeted because of all the largely unjustified scares -- safety, Porcina (swine flu) -- and they found themselves overstaffed and probably bored. Progreso is still the easiest and best border crossing, and the town has always been completely safe (although I like Nuevo Laredo a lot, too -- I've been across 3 times in recent years and even took Mrs. T-B. once).

The only of the Tex-Mex border crossings that I would hesitate to make today would be to the little villages in the Juarez Valley, across from the Fort Hancock port -- they're small enough that the Mexican police & army have tended to overlook them in favor of the bigger cities, so the "malos" (bad guys) are said to hang out there.

I had a recent chance (but skipped it, due to bad weather) to drive for maybe 30 miles on Federal Hwy. 2 south of Harlingen/McAllen -- it probably would have been extremely safe (and interesting) due to the military presence there.

All of the Class B crossings (the non-policed ones) were closed 2 or 3 years ago, to the detriment of the Mexican towns -- when people crossed all the time, it was like a town-sized "neighborhood watch" program on both sides. Afterwards, the Mexican merchants couldn't make a living, so they left, and the narcos and "malos" moved in. Tragic.

However, did you hear that a new, high-tech Class B crossing is due to open imminently (if it already hasn't) in Boquillas, in the Big Bend? Visit http://www.bigbendgazette.com for the details. I would love to go across.

I like reading this forum. As somewhat of an old-timer sometimes I can contribute.

Welcome, si man! Edited May 3, 2012 by TBoneTX