04-24-2025, 03:07 PM
Speedy wrote:
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[quote=Speedy]
I have the RealID and enhanced drivers license which is good for land crossings. Last time we drove into Mexico we stopped at the Mexican port and they told us that this type of license allows me to enter Mexico as long as I stay in the 30km exclusion zone. (It is very quaint crossing into Mexico because checks at the crossing are rare; we normally roll right through. The return north takes about an hour and a half.)
Where do you cross at?
Texas-Tamaulipas. Reynosa-Hidalgo is our usual crossing but the line today was the longest we’ve ever seen so, since we had time, we crossed at Rio Bravo-Donna: 1h 10m. Reynosa-Hidalgo would have been two+ hours. Our home is half way between the two crossings so the extra drive to get to the Rio Bravo crossing is less painful.
The CBP app times-to-cross are ludicrous.
Crossing over used to be virtually nothing at all. It was great.