Trump's Wall, Part Two
Home of the Brave
Scott Carrier
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The opening of Santa Elena's Canyon, Big Bend National Park. The left side of the canyon is in Mexico, the right side is in the United States.
Interviews with people on both sides of the border in and around Big Bend National Park, Texas.
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Tourists crossing the Rio Grande at Boquillas del Carmen.
Float trips on the Rio Grande are very popular. You're not supposed to get out of your boat on the Mexico side, but there's no one down there to stop you.
In the village of Boquillas del Carmen
Boquillas del Carmen
Photo by Simone Rubi, south of Marfa, Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Home of the Brave. I'm Scott Carrier. |
| 0:07.0 | Before I left home to drive to the US-Mexico border at Big Bend National Park, two friends told me separately to be careful, as if it's dangerous down there. |
| 0:18.0 | And I tried to tell them it's only dangerous if you have brown skin and are walking north across the desert carrying drugs or a baby. |
| 0:27.0 | They're border patrol everywhere and pick up trucks and at checkpoints. |
| 0:31.0 | And their job is to protect people like me, a white man with an air-conditioned car, |
| 0:37.0 | even though I am an habitual trespasser. |
| 0:40.0 | If there's a line, I tend to cross it. |
| 0:44.0 | So I'm on the US side of the Rio Grande, |
| 0:50.0 | inside Big Bend National Park at the Cottonwood Campground. |
| 0:57.0 | The other side's only like 25 yards away and I'm going to try to walk across it here. |
| 1:09.6 | It's not even up to my knee |
| 1:11.5 | in the middle of the Rio Grande. |
| 1:20.0 | All right, I'm in Mexico. |
| 1:23.2 | Mexico side, actually he's greener |
| 1:26.8 | than the US side right here. |
| 1:29.1 | It's like a horse pasture, |
| 1:32.4 | a white horse up there. That was easy. It's really weird to think that this is |
| 1:40.4 | Mexico. In fact I don't quite believe it. |
| 1:44.4 | Over there and that sides, the U.S. |
| 1:47.9 | And this is Mexico a different country. |
| 1:50.7 | I don't see anybody. |
| 1:51.7 | I don't see any roads. |
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