US Customs and Border Control in the Del Rio - Langtry Section of Texas

We are within minutes of the
Mexican Border.

This US Customs & Border
Control Station is on Route 90.

 

We went through a Border

Control Station when we

returned from the

Amistad Dam.

We see Border Control

vehicles along side 

the highway.

Because we are unfamiliar with this type of situation, we ask questions at the Visitors Centers and Seminole Canyon State Historical Park.  

We were told that before September 11, 2001, there were 50 Border Patrol Agents in this section of Texas. Now there are 250 agents working in this area.  I think of the influx of cash into the area economy that comes with this 4 fold increase in Border Control Agents and their families.

A staff member at a Visitors
Center told us that Border
Control trucks drag tires along
the gravel roads that parallel
the highway.

The tires stir up the dirt,
obliterating vehicle &
human tracks.

On the next pass the driver

will look for footprints

across the gravel road.

David, a ranger at Seminole Canyon State Historical Park, told us that this time of year men are moving south to the border to spend the holidays with their families in Mexico.

Whether heading north or south, people who are stopped without proper documentation have their names entered in the Border Control Database and are 

unable to obtain a visa to enter the US in the future.