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David K
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Great thanks! Let's hope it is that way and not what was reported above.
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sancho
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I believe you can fly domestically, within the country of
Mex with a passport card, like in out of TJ
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tjsue
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Passport cards are good for land and sea travel within Canada and Mexico. A valid passport is required for air travel.
I work at the Port of San Diego/Cruise Ship Terminal, and this is what I was told. You should see all the passengers that show up without a
passport card/passport, because they don't think that they don't need it. Consequently, they don't get to go on their cruise.
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tjsue
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I also heard that anyone that is entering Mexico without a passport/passport card is being asked for $22, and if they don't fork it over, they're
being turned back to the US.
[Edited on 6-20-2015 by tjsue]
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David K
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I heard that police pull over innocent tourists and take $100 to let them go...
I heard that banditos jump out from behind rocks and rob you...
I heard that you will get beheaded if you go to Mexico...
THE MORE I HEAR... The more I want to go to Mexico, and laugh my head off, coming home happier and feeling younger than before I left!
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El Comadante Loco
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Quote: Originally posted by sancho  | I believe you can fly domestically, within the country of
Mex with a passport card, like in out of TJ
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I fly to Mexico City, Guadalajara, Los Cabos, Cancun, Tuxtla Gutierrez, and Puerto Vallarta all domestic flights within Mexico mostly from TJ or
Mexicali using only my California drivers license as ID not once have I been asked for any additional ID though I also carry my Mexican ID just in
case.
International flights do require a passport and a valid tourist visa to return back to the states..
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sancho
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The passport card is accepted by Mex Imm at the TJ airport
for the purpose of purchasing an fmm, just like the Mex Imm
offices at the border crossings into Mex, thus you can fly to
the Cape and back to TJ with a passcard. The passcard
restriction is only regarding International air travel, for that
you need the passport book
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What is wrong with this picture? You can travel from London to Athens, and through all the European countries without showing a passport, or needing a
visa. It is assumed that once you are admitted into one of their countries through immigration, you are good to go.
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tjsue
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The passport regulation is what I was told at work, and the asking of $22 was posted on FB by a friend that lives in Tijuana, but works in San Diego.
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Another bit of mordida?
Once again doing this will impact the businesses that are only now starting to recover in TJ.
Even a bad day in Baja is better then a good day somewhere else!
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What's wrong is you are dealing with Mexico. Quit trying to figure anything out or make sense of it
| Quote: Originally posted by Bajahowodd | | What is wrong with this picture? You can travel from London to Athens, and through all the European countries without showing a passport, or needing a
visa. It is assumed that once you are admitted into one of their countries through immigration, you are good to go. |
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Well perhaps Mexico would allow Norte Americanos to roam free along the border area for a week or so, with a valid ID from their country, if we do the
same for Mexicans with a valid ID. What could possibly go wrong with that plan?
Also remember that Mexico has a problem along their southern border with immigrants wanting to cross.
The conditions aren't too hard to comply with, even if enforcement is a bit chaotic.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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after what a presidential hopeful said about mexicans, we're lucky they let us in at all.
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I'm guessing that it is the US Border Patrol and the government in DC that basically strong-armed the Mexican authorities to check for passports
simply to reduce the number of folks sent to secondary on their way back.
That said, if you are entering at San Ysidro and get a green light, who's to know if you have a passport?
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The sentiment below seems pretty lopsided when you consider how absurdly difficult the USA makes it for Mexican nationals to enter! Talk about the pot
calling the kettle black!
I wish it was as easy as it was in the past to go to Mexico, and Mexico would benefit from making it easier and stop charging for the tourist cards,
as they had before July, 2000, when it was free for 180 days. Many families choose not to go to Mexico, that used to go, because of the expense of
tourist cards for everyone.
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David K
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| Quote: Originally posted by bajasusan/a | The sentiment below seems pretty lopsided when you consider how absurdly difficult the USA makes it for Mexican nationals to enter! Talk about the pot
calling the kettle black!
I wish it was as easy as it was in the past to go to Mexico, and Mexico would benefit from making it easier and stop charging for the tourist cards,
as they had before July, 2000, when it was free for 180 days. Many families choose not to go to Mexico, that used to go, because of the expense of
tourist cards for everyone. |
Because one country is bad, you think that makes it ok for the other to do the same?
Who benefits more as a national source of revenue, from (the other's) tourist income: Mexico (Baja in this case) or the U.S.?
The people of Baja California have a great source of income from American tourism (Canadian as well). The people of the United States do not depend on
Mexican tourists anywhere close to the same level in order to survive (specially north of the border towns).
There is no economic disaster caused by the U.S. visa regulations as there is on the businesses and people of Baja caused by their government making
it difficult or too expensive for American families to travel south... as the American families have plenty of non-Mexico travel options.
We don't HAVE TO go to Mexico on a vacation, but we would like to. Every time the Mexican or American government makes it more difficult or expensive
on family travel, that equates to LESS people going to Mexico to spend their vacation dollars.
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Well this should through the whole thread a different way
Get the popcorn.
"Never teach a pig to sing it frustrates you and annoys the pig" - W.C.Fields
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who benefits most? seriously? the usa benefits enormously from mexican labor and culture. cant say the reverse is true, since tourism is a terrible
basis for an economy and earns a living for a very small part of the population.
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SoMetimes the ignorant spoutings of the bloviator in chief should just be left unresponded to, for all to enjoy in their Singular resplendant pompous
glory
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| Quote: Originally posted by bajasusan/a | | who benefits most? seriously? the usa benefits enormously from mexican labor and culture. cant say the reverse is true, since tourism is a terrible
basis for an economy and earns a living for a very small part of the population. |
Like paying maids at Cabo $6 dlls a day? Having them sign
short contracts so they don't have to give them any benifits?
For a newcomer you came to the plate swinging. As pointed
out, the bioviator sees his shortsided logic as the only correct view here
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