I was at the mouth of the Rio Grande in March 1996, by driving south along
the beach from Boca Chica, Texas, and there were no fortifications or
signs of guards. There was a guy standing waist-deep near the middle of
the river, fishing, and it did not look as if there would be a problem
swimming across. Of course, in south Texas, the international border is
fairly leaky and there is a tighter enforcement about a hundred miles
north...

David

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Dallen Timothy wrote:

> In the early 1990s I visited the Pacific terminus of the US-Mexico border.
> The chain-link fence ended on the beach about 3-5 meters from the water. On
> the beach were warning signs not to cross illegally. Since that time,
> sometime during the mid-1990s, the US government extended the fences several
> meters out into the water and fortified the fence with steel panels. I'm
> not sure about the Gulf of Mexico terminus.
> Dallen
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> Can anyone shed some light on what structures, fences, etc. are at
> the termini of the mexican - us borders (S. of San Diego and Mouth of
> Rio Grande). Can one simply swim out a few feet and come back to
> shore in the other country?
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