Today for the first time I went to go seriously observe the Border Wall. It was only me, my car, and my trustee phone(which I used to take pictures and video). My plan was to head down to the Hidalgo pump house to try to get some good snapshots. I unfortunately got a bit lost trying to find the pump house but I found myself near the Hidalgo-Reynosa international bridge. Fortunately along the bridge there's part of the border wall constructed so I stopped and took some pictures. While traveling down a street nearest to the "wall", I stumbled upon a Border Patrol guard tower. The tower did not look very impressive. It looked old, beaten up, and ineffective. Of course this is coming from someone who is used to seen the local police having bigger and flashier guard towers down at the local HEB. But nonetheless I could see how having such a apparatus serves its purpose despite being not as sophisticated as local police towers. Though I did notice a lot patrol vehicles and mobile spot lights(with the DHS logo on them).
I encountered a one as I was walking down the pump house and was forced off a pedestrian walk way by a Border Patrol S.U.V. Though it seems that the patrol man just wanted to ensure his dominance, I was not impressed but irritated. I had many mixed feelings about seeing the border wall, in the end I am not sure what to think about it. I absolutely disagree that it should be built but yet I feel that there has to be a manner to deal with immigration in a humane and reasonable manner.
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