{"id":176,"date":"2008-05-18T15:48:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T20:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:37:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:37:08","slug":"the-border-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"The Border 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was a busy week &#8211; 4 days were spent touring around El Paso and Juarez to help us understand border issues. We:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Took an after-hours tour with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/xp\/cgov\/border_security\/\">Border Patrol<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Visited a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maternidadlaluz.com\/\">mid-wife clinic <\/a>in El Paso<\/li>\n<li>Took a Juarez neighborhood tour<\/li>\n<li>Toured an immigration detention center<\/li>\n<li>Toured all aspects of two bridges, including the inspection of tractor-trailer rigs<\/li>\n<li>Toured two factories: one that makes <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lego.com\/en-US\/default.aspx\">Lego <\/a>toys and the other that makes the padded fabric for car seats<\/li>\n<li>Toured the Mexican passport agency and their Civil Registry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Socially, it was a busy week, too. John was still not feeling well last Sunday, but we carried on with a small dinner party for our friend Martha, who left Juarez\u00c2\u00a0on Monday. I also dropped by a welcome lunch for two new arrivals, Marwa and Al, who we knew at FSI.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday we had\u00c2\u00a0a farewell dinner with our friends Vivek and Bovni, who are heading to India &#8211; they took us to a good Middle Eastern restaurant, Al Zaituna &#8211; small, but good food and great fresh pita bread.<\/p>\n<p>Friday we attended a fun going-away party for our section chief Jeff, who is going to Iraq for a year. It was at the home of a local staff employee, Martha &#8211; those girls danced all night, while the rest of us ate great tacos and visited.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, John and I explored Las Cruces, NM, a bit &#8211; we enjoyed their <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.las-cruces.org\/cd\/econ_dev\/farmer_craft_market-default.shtm\">farmers&#8217; market <\/a>(John found some local honey) and we had a good lunch at a little Mexican diner, Delicias Cafe. We drove through old <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oldmesilla.org\/\">Mesilla <\/a>but passed on the shops there. We&#8217;ve spent the rest of the weekend getting things organized at home &#8211; we received our small, second shipment this week (kitchen table, etc.). Oh, and we watched <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Juno_(film)\">Juno <\/a>last night &#8211; very good.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much for all of the kind notes about Noodle. We still can&#8217;t believe he is gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a busy week &#8211; 4 days were spent touring around El Paso and Juarez to help us understand border issues. We: Took an after-hours tour with Border Patrol Visited a mid-wife clinic in El Paso Took a Juarez neighborhood tour Toured an immigration detention center Toured all aspects of two bridges, including the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3704,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/3704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}