I visited Del Rio, Texas, which has become the busiest undocumented migrant border crossing location along the southern US border. www.borderrepo... U.S. Customs and Border Protection - DEL RIO SECTOR Travel Vlog 153
Hi there! I actually worked on the fences at 14:30. They were put up to protect Civilian Land, not necessarily to fully stop crossing. This is so the land owners may prosecute trespassers that would sometimes damage, property, livestock, trample feeding grounds, etc.
I live in Georgetown, Texas, eldest brother in San Antonio and two sisters in Dallas. During coffee hour after Church Worship service a church member said, “Aah, You were the owner of a lot of land..!” At 59 years of age I don’t want it, way to much work. I am not envious, jealous nor angry about your so called property. Taxes, upkeep, neighbors, big animals to take care of. Why? (Grin)
The large spherical object at the end is a NEXRAD Doppler Radar for the National Weather Service. I believe that's the KDFX Radar. The spherical part is the protective dome to shield the Radar from the elements.
I was going to say weather radar. In Australia the BOM radars are almost the same as that. In Cairns we have one identical, but it is located quite far from the road so it's interesting seeing one close up. By the way BOM stands for Bureau of Meteorology.
No disagreeing on that. Ever since US became the sole superpower in 1991, the world has seen more deaths, wars and killings. Something to think about and ask, why does the defense budget need to be $850B when we see the sole superpower?
LOL, so bc a grocery store went out of business, you think the government should save it? We’re capitalists, buddy. The first REAL HEB was in Del Rio. Look at that font. That’s from the 80s. Ergo, Carlos Grocery and Meat Market went under for the same reason as other grocers in the 80s and 90s. Wal Mart crushed em.
Belive it or not. I use to know the owners. There last name was Cortes. I stayed in that house back in 1999 0r 2000 something. That house was the owners of the meat market and the gas station and that black metal fence was not there. It is crazy to see my friends houae 20 years later. RIP George Cortes
Brackestsville is the location of the original movie “The Alamo” with John Wayne. They had the entire Alamo along with the Fort built outside of town snd that is where the movie was filmed. Alamo Village was opened to the public when I was a kid (i will be 70 next spring) and my father took us there on vacation. Also Del Rio has a Air Force flight training base there. Lots of Top Guns running around. Merry Christmas and lots of blessings in the new year!
I would be careful those wires hanging down should be telephone wiring in most states anyway the lowest wires are telephone, then next up is cable lines then above that is electricity I learned that as a Cable TV installer years ago! Be safe out there and love your videos especially the Texas border town ones they’re awesome!
Downtown Del Rio is pretty dead, the main bulk of commerce largely takes place along and around Veterans Boulevard. Del Rio is small, but not that small. The downtown is not an accurate portrayal of the rest of Del Rio.
Migrants didn't bring TVs, stoves and barbecue pits. Before the area was seized by Trump for his wall, this was known as La Zona de Amistad (The Friendship Zone), where free trade and crossing was allowed on both sides. Carlos' was a place Texans would park to walk into Acuña (pronounced ac-oonya) and Acuña residents would walk across to shop here, Walmart, etc.
Daryl. Been here 31 years. I’m 60. 22 years ago Del Rio became a dump, not 6 years ago, bro. Drug cartels run the border now, Federalis … period. Welcome to you new world.
@@gottabighit1 If the Mexican government had already taken over Del Rio, Texas, 22 years ago, Trump's wall would have done nothing; Trump did nothing; and Abbott has done nothing. If the Mexican government has taken over Del Rio, Texas, why are you still a part of it?
@@darylwatson Just re-read my post. Never said what you claim. Simply, the cartels run the river. Cartels own the border. Cartels are getting paid huge sums of dollars to transport illegals from the Mexican southern border, The Ucumacinta is crossed by 5,000 to 10,000 Venezuelans weekly, 24/7 since last May. That’s the River dividing Guatemala and Mexico. And you know this already, Daryl, the Mexican Cartels = The Mexican Government. They are one in the same. Someday, our US Government will be the same. Someday soon, it appears. Peace.
I was born and raised in Del Rio and worked for the phone company for 36 years. All that area around Carlos Grocery and UETA was fairly nice. Like someone already posted. The fence pretty much shut them down. I haven't been down there in many, many years. It's really kind of depressing.
Yes I went there this summer, and I remember going to UETA all the time with one of my aunt's she would always stop to buy her big packs of cigarettes there when we were heading back to Acuña. It's so depressing now, everything looks different and smaller lol
Yes..I remember that all was wide open way back when. It was a big thing to walk the bridge back and forth. I was always partial to Eagle Pass but had great times in and around Acuña/Del Rio
I was born in Eagle Pass, then my parents moved to Del Rio, Texas when I was 5 months old with 5 other siblings. Grew up and schooled in Del Rio. I was in Cordoba, Spain at the Mosque in 1997 where I saw a relatives sarcophagus dating 1390. I come from the Visigoths, Burgundian French, Spanish Conquistadors and Floridian Seminole Native Indians. Whole lot of history hidden in the middle of nowhere…! Cheers
The Visigoths were a tribe that, along with others, brought about the destruction of Rome in 410. Rome’s territory had been spread too far, and the Romans couldn’t defend all of it. The way Rome paid its vast army was to invade an area, steal all of its money, and then demand tax money from the peasants (protection money). Aleric, king of the Visigoths, said “No”, raised an army, and… well, Google it. Anyway, Mr. Montemayor, you come from some hardy, hard-fighting, wealthy, and royal bloodlines. 👍
Surprised you didn’t go to the oldest winery in Texas, which is in Del Rio. There are also cave and wall paintings in the area, which are thousands of years old. Spanish missions as well, which are interesting given the missionaries taught the local apaches Spanish and now many of their ancestors have Spanish surnames
I was born here in Del Rio and I still live here. I kinda hate it here because of the lack of shit to do, but it's still my home. I honestly don't believe the 1400 number. I live pretty close to the border and I know the area you were looking at and I've yet to see anyone hop the fence in my 18 years of life.
yeah that's not to say it doesn't happen. I've heard people who live real close to the fence complain that, they hear people running through their yards. but that's like once every few months. I really doubt the 1400 number.
Some of the movies filmed at Bracketville, TX are The Alamo (john Wayne 1960 and Alamo still there), Arrowhead (1953), Two Rode Together (1961), Bandolero! (1968), Barbarosa (1982), Lonesome Dove (1989), and Bad Girls (1994). It was abandoned but still there intact as all old film locations are left after the movie.
I was born in Acuña! Good memories in Del Rio !! We used to walk on the bridge and then take a bus to go to HEB and do our groceries there 15 years passed and I returned just this summer, everything looks different now but the same at the same time lol
Your videos are taking me on a road trip of america !!!! Fantastic . . . I appreciate you taking us along and showing us what the u.s.a. looks like at the time of your video filming . . 😊👍
My wifes extended family is from Brackettville since 1890. We moved to Fort Clark Springs in 2019 after i retired, cuz I loved it so much after visiting her family. There's so much history here that I can't write it all. Love small town TX life. Everyone is so friendly and knows one another. Economy is mainly ranch/farm and tourist based incomes here. 1600 people at last census, and most live on the Fort. We mostly shop in Del Rio, but there is a small grocery and 2 hardware stores, a few restaurants, gas station. We have a central post office where everyone in town comes to pick up their mail. Overall, its a slow,boring, easy going lifestyle. I love it. Please come back again to do a full video if you can, of the entire area, including the Fort, as well as a few of the farm roads. The Seminole and Brackettville cemeteries,etc.
Tell everyone about getting run off the roads from failure to yields and smugglers shooting at motorist to make police stop to help the productive citizens that the criminal scum, that entered illegally a few weeks ago, do to get away. Not that they will be punished for either crimes under marxist democrats.
I'm amazed you didn't get pulled over at all by border patrol or military people I'm from Del Rio born n raised I know my town pretty well I worked for the Trash for 4 years and delivered the Trash Cans as well I know all the streets by names throughout the city and outside the city limits....I even have footage on my cell phones during all that Haiti Problem I was over there under the bridge where you wanted to go due to my job
Wow! That Carlos Grocery has seen better days. Looked like a pretty large store. Crazy. Wonder if the store owners lived in the adjacent home? Wonder what he story is with all that trash piled up at that old gas station. Looks like the city would make them clean it up. Looks like the road might have been rerouted?? Not sure. One things for sure You're not scared to go the farthest you can go. Even up to the river. Pretty countryside. Thanks for such a great video! I've really been enjoying these border videos!
Del Rio has an Air Force Base. It is not a large base but important for USAF pilot training. My point on your travels you usually ignore the presence of military bases. They are significant because they do contribute to the economy and culture of the host communities.
Thanks for acknowledging Laughlin Air Force Base My dad served in the Air Force and was stationed here in Good old Del Rio Tx. The Blue Thunderbirds were one of my many memories as a kid.
Aussie here. What a fascinating place and I love those signs, so retro!! Similarly, in Australia in country towns far from urban centres antique stores often contain valuable and highly prized items. Being from a country with no land borders it's always fascinating seeing different frontiers especially when culturally the countries are so different.
Bracketville is where the Alamo movie with John Wayne was filmed. The Alamo set with the buildings is there...pretty neat to go there several years ago ...
Carlos groceries closed back when the internacional bridge got re-build and it took part of the street that would lead us to the old toll-booth. The store UETA also had to move (relocate) for the same reason.
Yes. He didn’t go by the local Del Rio Mall, where 32 luxury buses are parked, and coming and going loaded up with illegals 24/7. The travel industry corporations being leased out by our federal government have a contract with the feds to park and take up 1/4 of the shopping mall’s parking lot. It is chaos, and it’s been that way for the past 20 months.
Lord; Thank you for the eye opening video’s, it is sad to watch, what once was a country to be proud of, now makes me sick to think, we may not get it back! Thanks again.
I’ve not been to Del Rio,I will take your word,it’s a nice community. The point I attempted to make, is the direction our country is headed. Certainly in a direction that doesn’t give one confidence in our future. I hope I’m wrong.
John, Del Rio sucks. Don’t kid yourself. 32 Luxury buses pick and and transport illegals 24/7 bro … paid for by YOU and me. Have you been to the local Del Rio mall lately? The buses take up the entire east side of the mall.
1:47 It look exactly the same on google maps Lord Spoda 'crazy eh, yep i love my google maps as it helps me find n investigate n look at so many places not just heir in greater Sydney but around the world.
There is a Detention Center on the edge of Brackettville, Fort Clark Springs is there as well. Lots of ranches in Kinney County, entire county has less than 4000 people. I have a small ranch close to Brackett, it’s just past that big golf ball you were wondering about, it’s a National Weather Service Radar Station. Lots of history in that county, you just barely scratched the surface.
How interesting your border videos have been. Rather quiet too, which is good. I'm sorry, but I find the different fencing in Del Rio hilarious. Different administration - different fencing?! Like you said, some look "sample" like.
Towns certainly invest in their courthouses. The stretch of the RG was beautiful. Loved the Rexall sign. It’s amazing the town allows the trash to pile up. Great to see the goats owning the roads! Thank you for another great video!
Interesting ride. Loved seeing all along the border. The sleepy-looking towns have a charm all their own. When you come thru Mississippi get off I-10 at Franklin Creek Road to go thru Grand Bay and Bayou La Batre. The Bayou has a tremendous shrimping/fishing fleet. Boats built there are delivered all around the world. Follow Coden Shell Belt Road to the west. The Mississippi Sound will be 2 steps from the passenger door! A couple of beautiful old homes too. You'll come back out on Hwy. 188. Go west to Hwy. 163 and turn south to Dauphin Island. When the road dead ends go left. Follow signs to the Shell Mounds. Can you imagine eating so many oysters? Ft. Gaines is at the west end. Ride the ferry across to Ft. Morgan, another civile war fort.
I'm originally from Eagle Pass, i don't know if it's still there, but Bracketville hada replica of the Alamo. John Wayne filmed it there. My uncles and grandfather played Mexican soldiers in the film. If you revisit it go and check if it's still there!
I was born in Asherton Texas and haven’t been back since we left that was 68 years ago. We used cross the border at Eagle pass to go int Mexico. You did a video on Eagle pass and was wondering if you drove through Asherton
As a border town Texan (west) it's bittersweet to see this. You know how it was versus what it's become. Very sad but it was a needed decision to make the fence. Still sucks that it turned out this way due to people that won't follow the laws of the land.
@@jbncnow i disagree. Because those illegal won't be crossing over if this texas belong to mexico. You have to understand the real reason why they choose to cross over. It is because the way of life is different. Why is it different. Ever think of that. Sadly american let too many unamerican thinking change their govern method.
@@jbncnowMexicans need their own revolution to take back their country from the cartels and corrupt bureaucrats. Then they wouldn't need to come to the US for jobs, etc.
I remember the powerful AM radio station we picked up all the way in the Ark-la-Tex to the northeast.Station was across the border in Mexico and Wolf man jack dee jayed there in the 60s☺
Hello and thank you for covering this. Much appreciated……. i’ve just watched Jonathan Lee Richards. He covers the migrant crisis really very well and I just love watching him go round these little cute towns pretty much what you’re doing ….my ancestors immigrated to some in New York some in Louisiana, some in Texas And some in Idaho…. Obviously they came in the right way so obviously a lot of my cousins are in these places ….not only that my Daughter lives there too she was married there ….. I would love to visit some of these little places, and I’m out there in the middle of July for holiday …. Kim🇬🇧
Ciudad Acuña (Ah-coo-nya). Thanks for visiting our small city, Del Rio. I wish you had shown the park where you ended that portion of the video. It's called San Felipe Creek. People have been coming to these waters for thousands of years. Cold water year round. Especially helpful when we get up to 100+ degree weather. That "ball" at the end is the Doppler radar station.
your video does not show where 1400 people a day could be crossing, immigrants would be all over the streets as u are filming..where is the evidence of 1400 crossing a day.. ghost town looked like..
Everything that I have ever read says that people overstay their visas. They do not get here making illegal crossings. They come here legally and then become illegal. We live in an age of jet travel.
The ball is a weather radar station. Brackettville has a lot of history from Fort Clark. It housed Buffalo soldiers and Seminole indian soldiers. There is a nice cometary on the outskirts of the fort which has four Congressional Medal of honor recipients. Economy in Bracket is mostly Ranching, City, School or Border Patrol. In Del Rio, the tin building you were looking at use to be The Cadena Blacksmith Shop. My grandfather took me there when i was a child to get an axe reshaped and sharpened the old method, Great memories. Fence with Constantine wire on it was put in place to keep illegals from boarding the train, which the tracks are just adjacent to the road, also to funnel them for boarder patrol during bailouts.
Say mr., may I ask what you looking for in my pueblo, I'm from San Felipe in Del Rio, is there anything you want to know in particular from my home town????..trash is every whwre even in your own town, I'm free to roam also, and the things I seen and have to say we are all equal, but welcome to Del Rio, Tex. and Mexico!!!!!🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
This is a future look of what much of the state of California will look like if things don’t change in that state. It may be worse if they are hit with an earthquake.
During August 1979 I was travelling with a group of friends from the UK on a journey from New York to Los Angeles through the southern states. After a couple of weeks on the road we pitched up in Del Rio. We decided it would be a nice idea to walk across the Rio Grande bridge into the town of Acuña for dinner. We showed our British passports to an immigration official in a tiny office and then walked across the deserted bridge into Mexico. We were the only people around, the bridge was empty. We had a lovely time in Acuña, a few drinks in a very dark bar and then moved on to a very friendly restaurant where we enjoyed our dinner, and then walked back across the bridge. We had to show our passports again to the same officer who dealt with us only a few hours previously, he was very thorough.This is why I find your video so surprising. I know I am talking about a visit that took place almost forty four years ago, but looking at Del Rio now in your film, it is totally unrecognisable, both the town, and the horrendous situation concerning the enormous number of immigrants at what’s looks like a different bridge from how I remember it, trying to enter the United States.
30 years ago I crossed into many of these border towns often. It has changed, drastically. We went from Brownsville into Matamoros a couple months ago and was shocked at how different it was. Once thriving and vibrant, the area is now a decrepit wasteland.
That area and the businesses around there used to be very nice. My family and I used to shop at Carlos Groceries and it was a nice, family owned business. It all turned into a slum like area after the federal government basically cut traffic to that whole area and in effect isolated those businesses from customers and took control of everything around there as if it were all a federally controlled zone. It's a shame, it used to be a nice area with no trash covering it. Now with the pathetic Biden administration in charge of our government, our entire border is in a state of decay, disarray and almost completely unguarded and unprotected. I can't wait to see these democrats go away, if only it could be forever!
Outside Bracketville there used to be...maybe still is....a place called Alamo village. It was a replica of the Alamo and the buildings near it, all of which you see if you watch John Wayne's movie titled The Alamo...which was filmed there.
Yes, Alamo Village is north of Brakett a few miles, although it's closed to the general public now, Alamo Village was financed entirely by John Wayne and it almost bankrupted him, a portion of Lonesome Dove was filmed there as well, the bar seen scene in particular where Duval slammed the bartenders head into the bar, as well as numerous other movies
Some of my wifes extended family were extras in the film in their younger days before they passed away. Wayne and some of his film crew stayed at the barracks which is now a small motel at Fort Clark Springs, where I have currently been retired for several years now at the HOA.
The white ball on the platform is a Doppler Radar station. Next time here head West to Lake Amistad, Comstock, north to Juno then west to Pandale and back south to Langtry, home of Judge Roy Bean, Law West of the Pecos. Back east on Hwy 90 to the Pecos River, old railroad bridge and back to Comstock. You would love the town of Langtry. Great reports !
Imagine the front goat 🐐 if he could talk sounding a bit like Fog Horn Leg Horn and saying son , son this here is goat country I say goat country 🐔 , wild 😄
Your thumbnail made me chuckled. It's a shame that Jesus is so trashy. No, not the one who died on the cross. That strip with the vacant store, gas station, and abandoned house and mobile home belong to two unrelated Latino fellas who are both named "Jesus," not kidding. Apparently, Jesus is a fairly popular name in Hispanic culture.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Yes Sir! Have a keen and vested interest in dilapidated real estate. We came down to DR at least once a year before Covid to camp out on our lot next to lake Amistad, a beautiful and one of a few last pristine lakes left in Texas. Our dogs don't care much for all the prickly flora there that can shread you up good in a heartbeat.
They don't stay in the border towns very long. There are no jobs in these small towns so they travel onward to San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, Houston and their suburbs...
Your pertinacity revealed yet another break in the porous armour of a generally chaotic immigration policy; but, in doing so, we all got to view close up the gently rippling surface (with cat-o-nine tails in the foreground and old men with fishing poles in the distance) of the legendary Rio Grande. Also appreciative of being shown around Del Rio, yet another, gritty, bent-on-surviving small border city-and the bonus of entering Bracketville with its bold family of four goats! Your videos mesmerize.
“Pertinacity”?😳 Boy, there’s a word you don’t hear very often. I’m not sure it’s a fitting description of his tenacity in making these videos, but okay… In any event, your most eloquent comment has philosophical implications of enormous magnitude. I salute you, sir.
Compare the border communities on our northern border with Canada. Mexico is and has been a very poor country for generations so any community along the southern border is going to reflect that.
It’s “Ah-Coon-YA” Anyway, does anybody know if they still have the mini “Boys Town” in Acuña? Rather just outside of town? I know the real boys town is or was in Nuevo Laredo. Man what great days back then! I was all over that area in my hay day, doing things I eventually went to Hoosegow for! lmao! Long Long time ago! It sure does look different! I used to walk right where Carlos was and straight over the bridge. Back then it was much quieter. Eagle Pass had ONE customs agent late at night. I remember freezing my azz off one night and coming back over from being down in Eagle-P. I walked right past the US Customs guy. He never stopped anybody. I walked by him and at the end of the bridge, I realized I had lost my wallet. I knew right where it was. I went back to the US Customs guy and said I forgot my wallet with all my shit in it. He asked me if I knew where I left it. I said YES at the Ping Pong Ball bar! Hahaha! He laughed and let me cross back over the border backwards! When I came back I showed him I had it. Back then you just needed a drivers license, not a passport! That bar held onto my wallet in Mexico and nobody took anything out of it! A bargirl found it on the table I was sitting, with some of my Mexican friends! Those were the good old days for sure!
If you want to understand why immigration is so bad, you need to go to Acuña. It’s pronounced AcunYa by the way. 🤠 I’m enjoy these. We used to hunt in Eagle Pass and Del Rio when I was a kid. When I was in high school, one of my friend’s parents owned a big hunting lease down there. We would tell our parents we were going to the lake for the weekend and instead go to Del Rio for the weekend and spend the whole time in Acuña. That was 20 years ago. The sketchiest thing about it was that we were all lying to our parents, but Acuña was safe. Blonde teenagers could wander around drunker than Cooter Brown. If you listen to the George Strait song “Blame it on Mexico,” the first line is “At a bar in Acuña called Ma Crosby’s, I found myself not feeling any pain..” It was a place where generations of Texans went to party and have fun. It closed about 10 yrs ago bc the violence of the drug war. It wasn’t safe for American tourists anymore.
Ñ is pronounced ny, and so Acuña is pronounced Acunya. I like the vine with the pink flowers @2:40 - do you know what it is? @6:50 the river looks almost like a lake because the water is so calm - it must be very flat there.
