Comments on: The Tamaulipas Travel Agency

By: Henry

Henry — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:37:26 +0000

LOL. You really expect me to believe all of this? You ought to write fiction books, for crying out loud.

By: The Dane

The Dane — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:12:10 +0000

I would have thought the oil companies operating on your ranch would want to keep the pilgrams away from their equipment for safety reasons, both for the people and their equipment! Sounds like you have more people walking around at night than in the day. And I thought exotics on south Texas ranches had four legs…

By: Mom

Mom — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:27:42 +0000

Hey, you’re really taking off! I’m Impressed.

By: Kristin D.

Kristin D. — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:30:53 +0000

Elizabeth Burn’s blog is truly outstanding! This article is just a small snippet of what you can find on her blog, and I would encourage anyone to check out her blog and comical (or as she calls it “satirical” ) view of life in that area. Especially dealing with the long term hazards of the oil companies’ unethical behavior and practicing standards that her family is exposed to.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:44:07 +0000

Thanks for the link. Elizabeth Burns’s blog is outstanding. Check out, also, her work documenting the outrageous, criminal behavior of oil companies like Chevron, Valero, and ExxonMobil.

By: Ricky

Ricky — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:35:59 +0000

It’s a good thing you call the border patrol instead of just letting them pass through.

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:31:20 +0000

who is complaining? We don’t get a lot of Mexicans walking thru “the monte”. More OTM’s and exotics. You are correct, it is occupied by Mexicans — most of the ranches are owned by Mexicans. They aren’t walking around the checkpoint. they live here. It is pretty much like Mexico in the terrain and the culture, but people like to be considered USA as they get welfare, social services and farming subsidies. No one is complaining that it is considered USA as they get the best of both worlds. It’s like Mexico with free money from the USA govt. I like living here because it’s like living in a foreign country (Mexico) but you can carry a gun and the electricity is so much cheaper.

By: John Wright

John Wright — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:59:35 +0000

You have no complaint. You are the one living in occupied Mexico and NO Mexican is ever “illegal” in any of the territory stolen from Mexico by the USA.

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:30:28 +0000

The ranches in this part of the country tend to be large because it is arid and people need 40 acres per cow. You need to have 1000 cows to have some economy of scale back in the old day, so 40,000 acres wasn’t such a big ranch back in the 1930′s when it was purchased. It was good for cattle because there is good fresh ground water very shallow – like 8 feet in our area. Land was very cheap back then so people had to get ranches where they could afford them. Even then there was smuggling and bootlegging. THe area really got established in the 1860′s as a way to get cotton out with the civil war blockade. Many people that ended up here came from Louisiana and Mississippi on Steamships to smuggle cotton and then just stayed.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:18:49 +0000

Why would you own a ranch on the border?