Border Tours

Gray Line Tours in Tucson now is offering an eight-hour excursion to the line where Arizona meets Sonora at Nogales. Called “Border Crisis, Fact or Fiction,” the $89 excursion features a visit to the fence separating Mexico from the United States, opportunities to talk with officials and residents and see the port of entry through which pass 70 percent of the winter vegetables sold in the USA. Although hundreds of illegal immigrants have died attempting to cross the desert north of Nogales, a Mexican reporter interviewing people on the Arizona side of the line told him life is so tranquil they do not even bother to lock their doors.

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Jimm Budd

Reporting From Mexico City

Member of the Society of American Travel Writers