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maryjane
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FEB 10, 08:03 PM
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By that time, the southwestern states had pretty much filled up and the jobs were farther North anyway.
The illegal incursion in the border states had been going on for many decades. At least since the 70s. Nobody anywhere else saw it or cared about it until the excess started spilling out of the border states over to the North, Southeast US and then up the Eastern seaboard, and all of a sudden, It's a Crisis!. (welcome to border states' world!)
(Calif was a different story)
The caravans of 2 or more vehicles traveling together, one being pulled by another is sometimes migrant workers going to the next harvest but is often also vehicles coming from used car auctions and other auctions.
Nothing new about that. I grew up in Baytown tx almost in sight of I-10 and for as long as I can remember, you could always tell when the big used car auction in Beaumont had took place. I was stationed in P-Cola Fla for 2 years in the mid 70s and there must have been a big one somewhere in East or South Fla too as there were lots of towbar pulled cars headed West back then.
That has been ongoing for decades as well. Anything that will roll. Trucks, cars, broke down mobile homes, surplus school buses. They are individuals or small time operators. The big operators send semitruck car carriers. I crossed the border into old Mexico at Laredo one year and the line over international bridge was backed up for 3 miles while US BP inspected all the auction vehicle titles. Mexico has high taxes on registering any vehicles and especially nearly new vehicles coming in from the US but vehicles 10 years old or older are exempt.
https://www.ar15.com/forums...to-Mexico/5-2263380/
https://marfapublicradio.or...interstate-in-texas/
For many years, used toilets, bathroom sinks and bathtubs was the thing. A movie came out in the early 70s called Bunny O'Hare (Earnest Borgnine/Bette Davis) and he was a toilet thief, stealing them and hauling them to Mexico. I didn't see it until I came back from overseas but I knew exactly what his deal was as I watched the movie. Later, I was on a drilling rig right off I-59 at Freer Texas and not a day went by you didn't see at least one old broke down ratty pickup truck with tall side boards on it, piled high with used toilets and sinks southbound. Early 80s timeframe, same time the Austin chalk boom was going on.
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sourmash
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FEB 10, 10:57 PM
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From memory the trucks had temporary plates. They were only around for a year or so, but by then tons of illegals were moving in and through the region for work and to stay.
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Because of where it runs and where illegals used to primarily populate and blend in.
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Valkrie9
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FEB 10, 11:25 PM
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Valkrie9
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FEB 10, 11:48 PM
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Canadian content !
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FEB 11, 03:11 AM
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FEB 11, 04:22 AM
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Under the waves, real sneaky like !
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Valkrie9
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FEB 11, 04:45 AM
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82-T/A [At Work]
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FEB 11, 07:45 AM
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Valkrie9
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FEB 11, 08:08 AM
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Subs are easy pickins, and exciting !
They have the same problems they did in 1864 .
Noisy, slow, hot and visible.
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82-T/A [At Work]
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FEB 11, 08:40 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by Valkrie9:
Subs are easy pickins, and exciting !
They have the same problems they did in 1864 .
Noisy, slow, hot and visible.
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Very few of them are actually submarines. They're almost all actual speed boats of some sort that have been converted into a semi-submersible that skims just under the water, in hopes of evading radar.
These guys do the land operations: https://www.jtfb.southcom.mil/
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