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Lee
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Quote: Originally posted by bajatrailrider  | | I only know one person deported about 5 years ago. He lived in Baja Malibu They came to his home. Asked for FMM had none put him in car took him to
TJ. Made him go back to Calif he waited one hour. Hitched a ride back went home Baja Malibu. They never came back |
Few years ago, rumor of immigration going door to door in Pescadero (SW of Rancho Pescadero) asking for ''papers.'' Never followed up to see if it
was true. Don't want to be caught without ''papers.''
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| Quote: Originally posted by Lee | | Quote: Originally posted by bajatrailrider | | I only know one person deported about 5 years ago. He lived in Baja Malibu They came to his home. Asked for FMM had none put him in car took him to
TJ. Made him go back to Calif he waited one hour. Hitched a ride back went home Baja Malibu. They never came back |
Few years ago, rumor of immigration going door to door in Pescadero (SW of Rancho Pescadero) asking for ''papers.'' Never followed up to see if it
was true. Don't want to be caught without ''papers.'' |
I agree with you Lee, but in all my trips to Mexico, the only time anyone has ever asked for anything more than an ID was in northern Sonora over
twenty years ago.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
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Last year, northbound on Hwy 1 near San Ignacio, at a checkpoint where the entire public bus I was on had to deboard for inspection, not only did the
agent want to see my FMM, he also took a photo of it.
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Five or ten years ago, I forget, it's all a blur, INM agents from Santa Rosalia drove down to Santispac and checked all the gringos. A neighbor with a
Class A mega-RV and a tow car, who was all set up for an extended stay, didn't have a tourist card. They required him to drive back to the border (in
his car) and get one, which he did. I don't remember if they ever came back to check. I don't think so.
Bureaucratic rules in Mexico are decided by the bureaucrat you're talking to.
[Edited on 3-13-2025 by SFandH]
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“Bureaucratic rules in Mexico are decided by the bureaucrat you're talking to.”
¡TRU DAT!
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And... by the
way you talk to them. 
"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is, by how stupid he thinks I
am."
"...they were careful of their demeanor that they not be thought to have opinions on what they heard for like most men skilled at their work they
were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand."
Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
"Be kind, be patient, help others." -- Isabel Allende
"My gas stove identifies as electric." Anonymous
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Lee
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There was a time when the Ag checkpoint N. of Guerrero Negro was checking papers and think it reported people were turned back if papers weren't in
order, or didn't have papers. I've also been asked at the SI checkpoint.
Between SQ and Colonet, an impromptu checkpoint, a MX man suit and tie, asked for papers few years ago.
Don't know the intervals immigration is showing up again but it definitely comes around over time.
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ftrphb
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They are cracking down. Get your FMM
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Wonder why they are supposedly cracking down? Duh.
My recent adventure to GN and back, was the same as it has been for decades. I was not asked about a travel permit at any of the road stops.
I recall there was one time in the past that I had failed to renew my passport on time, and was denied a permit. My bad.
I consider I was lucky to not have been asked to show my fmm on that trip south. That will never happen again.
The ag checkpoint north of GN has never questioned whether I have a fmm, or not.
To spray or not? I always chose not, but the spray happens nevertheless. Paying the official is so minimal that I acquiesce whether my car gets the
spray or not.
Cracking down was not evident on this latest adventure. Was I lucky?
Maybe so. Attitude always plays a part.
As one who appreciates at least a small part of all they have to deal with, I am grateful for every road check stop for the opportunity to express my
appreciation for them keeping the roadway relatively safer.
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