9/04/18I drove past this between Salida and Cotopaxi on State Highway 50 in Colorado. I had to turn around and tell whoever that I stood with them totally assuming I was correct. I was and got the biggest hug of appreciation for doing so.
From my understanding, there are close to 3000 children being held around this country after being seized from their parents at the border.
Many will never see their Mom and Dad again because Republicans are totally evil.
You bastards!
I'm not going to be vacationing close to the border any time soon. I like breathing way too much.
ReplyDeleteI was down there a little over a year ago and I'll never go close again Andy.
ReplyDeleteI started reading this and just said no.
Let's see if Border Explorer weighs in on this. I trust her judgement a bunch.
I used to love little places along the border like Bisbee, AZ, but now I steer clear. I don't want to go anywhere south of where, on the way back, they stop and ask if you're a US citizen while a dog sniffs your car. It feels like a police state, although they've been doing it for years.
ReplyDeleteLove the desolate look of your header photo. I don't know what it is about me, but I like desolate.
With all the hysteria about Iraq's WMDs, the "threat" of terrorism, and the general nuttiness of the war on drugs, I wouldn't be at all surprised if USA Today's analysis was right. The dangers people perceive in our times are often very different from what can actually kill us. I was in El Paso back in 2008-2009, and it actually seemed a lot calmer than when I was there ten years earlier.
ReplyDeleteIf going by how you're treated by Customs or the TSA is any guide to danger, we should be very afraid at airports. Yet the only thing I'm concerned about there are the TSA and Customs.
TE and Cujo-Maybe the chances of being harmed are down but the perception of danger is very high and that's part of it to. Something out there about an "attack" warning for Juarez or some damn thing like that issued by bama.
ReplyDeleteI ran into one of those stops quite a ways from the border and I'm not letting these bastards do that to me again.
And it is desolate with some of these Teresa. This was in Westcliffe which is a fairly well to do small town filled with religious crazy's and so many churches it's hard to count.
ReplyDeletePictures with snow capped mountains in the back round can be lonely to me at times. This one is although the area itself is not.
T.E.
ReplyDeleteBisbee?
We still go to the dentist in Naco which is not far from Bisbee on the Mexican side of the border.
I feel safer there than in Phoenix..
Granted it is the smallest of small border towns.
Legalize reefer and half of these problems would be up in smoke. :-)
http://www.truth-out.org/aiding-insecurity-four-years-mexicos-drug-war/1310059463
RZ: Yes, I agree....
ReplyDeleteThanks for the invitation to comment on this post, One. I've got two observations. First: USA Today is probably right--regarding the present and past. The political right-wingers flair up accusations of violence that don't have a basis in reality to scare people about immigrants. Second: Regarding the future--my opinion is not "politically correct" among my activist friends, but I think things are about to get a lot worse in terms of violence and corruption on the border. I'm starting to see things happen that frighten me. No wall can stop corruption, and the power and influence of organized crime won't be stopped by weaponry or personnel along a borderline. No justice, no peace. That's my opinion.
ReplyDeleteAnd I value that opinion above all others Billie! Thank you so much,
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