Border Agents rude and difficult at Nogales
We were treated very badly for no reason while crossing the other day. Others have expressed the same concerns. When they ask you if you have meat (cooked or not), eggs, spices, etc. make sure you ans...
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IMHO, JMHO, IMHO ~ NO country is worth seeing when having to be interrogated and/or having to learn how to look at them, how not look at them and how to answer questions for fear of them coming on board without provocation or worse yet erroneously being charged/fined.
Yes, I fully agree, but despite the humiliating procedure to get long term visas, and the inane questions they ask at immigration and the photos and the fingerprinting and the indecent friskdowns we have to subject ourselves to, we decided to visit the USA anyway.
Once in, crossing to Mexico or Canada is a walk in the park.
To those who refuse to travel to other countries, especially Mexico: it's your loss. Maybe if more Americans traveled abroad and tried to understand other cultures, our own internal political squabbles might be somewhat less intractable.
Probably applies to all nationalities and all travellers strike similar problems in certain countries.
On another forum a traveller wrote "for the same reason I avoided looking like a pom in Spain or France I would avoid looking like an Aussie in Bali or Sihanoukville, a Russian in Georgia, a pom in Argentina, or, with abject apologies to those I may offend, an American anywhere." and I suggest that a bit more travel and a bit less attitude might help us all see things a bit differently.
As for the huge problems facing Mexico, it might be worth having a look at the root cause of a couple of the main ones.
