He did say, however, "I'm not an open-borders man.
Eventually, a guy with a pistol appeared from behind a low hill and announced himself as the border man and said he'd been doing target practice to keep himself busy.
Here at the southernmost tip of the Mexican border, men like Mr. Pineda are known as transmigrantes, and their rusted, rolling caravans of junk are a common sight along Military Highway, just north of the Rio Grande.
Some even keep one wife and family on the Iranian side and one across the border, officials said, and the border no man's land is reportedly so untamed that an arms bazaar there offers tanks for sale.
The new 50-Quid-At-Borders-Man is a woman in her early forties who treats herself to zapping a few crow's feet every ten weeks, a torrent of often pop-in self-cares that sum to a £2 billion global industry – and one that grew by 40percentt in 2015 alone.
In the wild tribal areas, near the border, every man carries an automatic rifle.
At U.S. Petroleum on Main Street in New Rochelle, two miles up Boston Post Road from the Bronx border, the man on the phone reported all was well.
When he moved there, it bordered no man's land, but, he said, it was the only place he could afford.
Crossing the Tenassarim range in a single afternoon, along the route the Japanese Imperial Army retreated in 1944, is a very new thing.At the checkpoint on the Thai side of the border, a man wearing a rain cape uses a raised orange umbrella to signal simply that we may pass.
The border between man and technology is porous, McLuhan was saying, and with every new invention we reinvent ourselves as humans. .
