US-Mexican border

Randy Black writes: "The claim in the Temecula article that border security has not been stepped up, may or may not be true in Temecula, but certainly is not true along the Texas-Mexican border. I am visiting Jaqui White near the border in south Texas near Brownsville and this is all the locals talk about. Border security at Brownsville is much more strict that it was in the past. In west Texas, entire Mexican villages are withering away because of the lack of ability of the Mexicans to travel freely back and forth to their Texas jobs, as they have for decades, in areas that are too remote to justify a US Border Patrol Entry Station, and the lack of tourism from the Americans and Canadians who can no longer informally cross the border in the areas that are hundreds of miles from the nearest official border crossing station.
 
In Texas' Big Bend National Park, the nation's largest, informal crossings at Boquillas Canyon near the US Ranger Station deep in the National Park, and up the Rio Grande between Terlingua and Persidio, the tiny desert resort hotels and cafes on the Texas side will not survive without their Mexican staffs, who are accustomed to wading or paddling across in a small boat daily to their US jobs, having done so for decades, to work in the small Texas resort areas. And there are simply not enough Americans to staff such rural outposts. Thus, the Mexicans will starve and the hotels and cafes will become simply more ghost towns.
 
These are not terrorists. These are simply humble Mexicans living without electricity or running water in Mexico who must swim,walk, paddle the river daily, in both directions to support their families. The Mexican government has no interest in their plight and provides nothing, not even paved roads to their villages".