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...glorious coastline. 5) After collecting your bags, push your way through the crowd of people into the check-in area of the airport. A man will check your passport and tickets at the door. 6) Open your bags for inspection. Get asked for a small donation by bag inspector. 7) Check in. Your name will be recorded in two separate books. 8) Fill out departure card. The first police officer you come to will inspect your passport and card and hand it to his boss. This is where your "permission to leave" slip from police HQ comes in. Hand...
...most Mexicans believe that U.S. customs agents are also on the take and permit some vehicles to cruise through border inspection stations in exchange for money. Just last month Jose Antonio Olvera, a U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service inspector at Tijuana-San Ysidro border crossings, pleaded guilty to taking almost $90,000 in bribes to let drug shipments through. (Olvera claims he did it because the cartel had threatened to kidnap his five-year-old son.) "If relatively well-paid U.S. agents aren't immune to it," says one Mexican prosecutor, "how can we expect Mexican police...
...school and commute. The two local school districts (one larger than the state of Delaware) don't know how many students are from the other side; they are forbidden by law to ask. In any case, the town can't build elementary school space fast enough. Jesse Saldivar, chief inspector for U.S. Customs downtown, recognizes the faces as they pass through the gates. "I've seen them grow up," he says, making step motions with his hand...
Luna isn't going very far anyway. After a Customs inspector waves him through, he lets out a sigh of relief. He can drop off the 44 tons of iron towers and still get back home tonight...
...gunpoint, including an eight-year-old Filipino boy and an American missionary couple who were celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary. Then the thugs started on the mini-bars and closets, grabbing sodas, nuts and chocolate, T shirts, lingerie and sunglasses. "Clothes were strewn around the rooms," says police Inspector Rodolfo Amurao. The raiders were heading for the resort kitchen when they were called back by their leader. "Enough, enough, we have to go," he shouted, according to Cervantes, who watched them leave. Things only got worse on the return. The rebels discovered they didn't have enough fuel...