Mexican Town Offering Tourists an Illegal Night Walk 'Border Crossing' Experience Sputnik News
go to original April 16, 2015

Dodging Bullets in Illegal Mexican Border Crossing Amusement Park Experience (Yahoo! Travel)

They try to sneak up across the American border late at night, hearing gunshots, and then they are met with US Border Patrol asking them to surrender, but that’s just for fun.

How? Because those young Mexicans are tourists and the voice talking to them is a man playing the role of an anti-immigration officer as part of a Night Walk experience offered by EcoAlberto theme park four hundred miles south of the actual US-Mexico border.

...With many of its population having immigrated to the US, El Alberto was becoming a ghost town in 2004, up until local entrepreneurs created EcoAlberto, used for kayaking and mountaineering during the day and for illegal immigrant simulations at night.

Participants pay 250 pesos ($16 US) to play migrants sneaking across rough terrain, trying to evade border guards, thieves and dangerous drug traffickers.

Organizers say, the drill is to raise awareness of the perils of immigration, including being caught by the "migra" or fall prey to criminals.

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