This report on crossing back.
[QUOTE=Country John]Border Patrol, Customs, Homeland Security - all of these guys - have received special training on spotting bullshitters when they answer simple questions. When you give the guy a bullshit answer to the question "What were you doing in Mexico?" and he sees the corner of your mouth twitch, you could be in for a surprise.
I have an idea: tell the fucking truth. Unless your wife is there with you, tell them what you were doing in Mexico: Chasing The Girls. It just so happens that you are not the only one doing it. They know it, I tell them EVERY time I cross. They chuckle. They nod their head. They believe me. It's real.
What they think about what you do doesn't matter Their opinion is a big fat zero. Don't worry about it.
If you want something to worry about, worry that these guys won't catch a badguy with a backpack full of nastys.
Be honest with these guys. There is no reason not to.
Be safe and be nice
Country John[/QUOTE]I have been going to TJ since I was sixteen. I was down there last week and I am 73 now and look younger,I still visit the girls in the Zone and Adelitas when I go for dental etc.This report by Country John is RIGHT ON.
Take Care What You Admit at the Border
[QUOTE]There is absolutely nothing to fear with telling the truth as to why you were visiting Mexico. [/QUOTE]While I agree with this guidance under the current state of security technology, I am concerned about how things are going to work come January 1, 2008.
One we all start crossing with "swipeable" passports, every last one of our trips will be recorded. That's a HUGE difference from the current system. Moreover, the Dept. of Homeland Security has announced they're going to create a "risk profile" for every person who crosses. While they SHOULD have better things to worry about than guys who admit to patronizing the Zona Norte, I remain concerned. Given the "Six Degrees of Separation" thinking that goes into building these databases, I can see DHS thinking that the less-glamorous parts of TJ are full of undesireables (of whatever stripe) and concluding that anybody who admits hanging out there deserves a database entry because he is possibly "linked" or "associated" with those undesireables.
I don't care if the inspectors know I'm lying. I'll never admit to chasing hookers in Tijuana when I cross.
Tiujana Trouble--How to Avoid?!
This is a query rather than a report.
I have pretty carefully read the last six pages of this thread, and am now in a quandry. These reports about Mexican police as well as US border patrol harrassment are absolutely appalling! Now, I am not so much concerned about the US side--if the US border control officials want to shake me down and strip search me for viagra or pot, so be it (they will find neither). And I don't give a flying fuck what they think when I tell them I went to Mexico to fuck *****s--there is not a damn thing they can do about it! I have entered and re-entered the US from over sixty different countries, and am quite used to US customs bullshit, and have no fear of it, since I will be breaking no American laws, and in America (believe it or not!) we still have a modicum of constitutional protection (Patriot Act notwithstanding). But this nonsense of Mexican police routinely harrassing tourists and extorting them is absolutely outrageous! But please understand, I am no greenhorn when it comes to either international travel, or to hunting pussy. I have mongered frequently in some far-flung locales, including Costa Rica, Hong Kong/Macau, Japan, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Dominican Republic, Brazil, and Thailand. But I have yet to encounter ANYTHING resembling the kind of nasty, outrageous, and totally unjustifiable state-sanctioned criminal activity described here--directed by police against tourists who have committed no crime other than to pump much needed American cash into their impovershed economy. And right on our very doorstep, no less!
Anyway, enough grandstanding. This is a serious post and I'm trying to decide what to do! I have a couple of free days/nights on an upcoming trip to San Diego right before Christmas. Before checking in with this board (as I almost always do before a trip to a new place) I was planning on spending those two nights in Tijuana. But now I am having trepidations. I want to have a fun time fucking chica *****s (GFE if possible!)--and I would like to be able to concentrate on the normal trials and tribulations of the pussy hunt rather than on avoiding this off-putting, and apparently potentially quite dangerous police harrassment. So here are my choices, the way I see them:
1. Cancel Tijuana altogether, and confine my mongering to the US (San Diego).
2. Stay in a hotel Tijuana for the two nights (as was my original plan).
3. Stay in a motel in San Isidro and cross over in the evening, and back to the US at the end of the night's activities (on foot).
I would be VERY grateful for some advice on which option to choose, in order to minimize the potential for a run-in with this out-of-control Mexican gestapo. I am traveling alone, since that is what I prefer. (As a well known author once opined, "Whoring is basically a solitary activity".)
Thanks in advance for any advice about this that you guys can provide!