Sentence examples for border crossing experience from inspiring English sources
Despite the long-standing social and economic gap across the boundary, infrastructural innovations were employed to lubricate the border crossing experience.
Parque Eco Alberto is a nature reserve near the town of Ixmiquilpan in Hildago, roughly 700 miles from the U.S. border -- the site of my make-believe, nighttime illegal alien border crossing experience, three hours from Mexico City.
Funded by the Mexican government, the fake border-crossing experience has been Parque Eco Alberto's main moneymaking attraction since 2004, drawing in mostly tourists from Mexico City.
His voice shook when he recounted the story, but he insisted that, like the border crossing, the experience made him stronger.
There was the actual experience of the border crossing: the layers of barbed wire and trenches; the mirrors wheeled under our car; the searches of its interior (which the armed border guards practically dismantled); and a night at the Adlon hotel in (East) Berlin, in rooms that looked out on floodlit fortifications like something out of a war film.
In addition, crossing the border on the Murray River was a tiresome experience as each border crossing had customs posts inspecting goods and luggage to ensure all duty was paid and to reduce smuggling, a popular activity.
Looking back, I vividly remember the fear, anxiety, and shock I experienced at that border crossing.
There is just a single border crossing.
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