{"id":1292,"date":"2011-06-10T14:40:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T14:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2012-04-08T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T12:26:00","slug":"us-mexico-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"US-MEXICO BORDER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent trip to the American Southwest provided many encounters with the US Border Patrol in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. More an open wound or scar than border,\u00a0 the frontier between Mexico and the US remains a source of conflict and contention between the two nations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SMUGGLING-SIGN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1293\" title=\"SMUGGLING SIGN\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SMUGGLING-SIGN-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SMUGGLING-SIGN-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SMUGGLING-SIGN-1024x712.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During my stay at Cave Creek Ranch in Arizona, I spoke with campers just a mile or two from the Ranch who spoke of illegals coming into their camp the previous night begging for food.<\/p>\n<p>Other birders spoke of encounters with AK-47 armed persons leading drug mules through the Chirichuas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/RADAR-BLIMP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1294\" title=\"RADAR BLIMP\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/RADAR-BLIMP-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/RADAR-BLIMP-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/RADAR-BLIMP-1024x738.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tethered radar blimp scanning the desert from overhead. Despite the impressive panoply of technological wizardry, including helicopters, and surveillance jets, the border remains porous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent trip to the American Southwest provided many encounters with the US Border Patrol in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. More an open wound or scar than border,\u00a0 the frontier between Mexico and the US remains a source of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=1292\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-touring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}