If it's Mexico, and the government, things change every ten minutes.
Friday LAST, a woman aduanero whistled to the guy downstream of her and suddenly I was in secondary at Garita 2 at Tijuana. Demanded car ownership pink slip, noted car registration expiration. Demanded to see FMM. When he started to complain about my soon to expire car registration and 11-days left on my FMM, I played the successful part of a deaf old man that insisted on shaking his hand every 5 minutes. To be succinct this happened AFTER the red/green lights. They positioned five or six aduaneros on the centerlines between lanes, maybe twenty in all.
Eduardo was sweating it. I told him to relax. Extremely polite, extremely confused and extremely hard of hearing works like a champ, if your hair is gray.
And nothing was missing or out of date. Eduardo suggested they were probably cranked up over the then steel and aluminum tariffs.
500-crossings then a hassle. IOn the 1990's I was crossing at Tecate sometimes three times a day for three years working for Duran Trucking.
Giving these mordelones any guff only makes it worse. Smile, be polite and let them steam
