Brownsville, Texas
We stayed in Hardengin, TX at the Paradise Park which was Passport America, so it was half price. We
drove into Brownsville the second day and were a little disappointed in it as it was covered in shops
selling Chinese stuff. The leather goods were Mexican, but not much else. We ate at a little Tex-Mex
restaurant and nobody could speak English. We pointed at the menu. We didn't have birth certificate to
cross boarder (even thought 1,000's per day cross illegally) and we were a little afraid to do so. We
asked a DHS guard if we could take some pictures through the fence and he said OK. While we were
doing this, another one ran up and yelled at us and took our camera. He gave it back after telling this
wasn't a tourist area, it was an international border. I can easily see now that solving the illegal
immigration problem will be virtually impossible without a fence. No other way will work. Once a Mexican
gt here, there is no way he can be caught. They will blend right in.
drove into Brownsville the second day and were a little disappointed in it as it was covered in shops
selling Chinese stuff. The leather goods were Mexican, but not much else. We ate at a little Tex-Mex
restaurant and nobody could speak English. We pointed at the menu. We didn't have birth certificate to
cross boarder (even thought 1,000's per day cross illegally) and we were a little afraid to do so. We
asked a DHS guard if we could take some pictures through the fence and he said OK. While we were
doing this, another one ran up and yelled at us and took our camera. He gave it back after telling this
wasn't a tourist area, it was an international border. I can easily see now that solving the illegal
immigration problem will be virtually impossible without a fence. No other way will work. Once a Mexican
gt here, there is no way he can be caught. They will blend right in.
Famous old Catholic church
The town was covered in little shoppes ad ll the signs were in Spanish.
White Pelican like in Florida for winter
Old cemetery
Rio Grande
Crossing into United States