Hi there! I actually worked on the fences at 14:30. They were put up to protect Civilian Land, not necessarily to fully stop crossing. This is so the land owners may prosecute trespassers that would sometimes damage, property, livestock, trample feeding grounds, etc.

The large spherical object at the end is a NEXRAD Doppler Radar for the National Weather Service. I believe that's the KDFX Radar. The spherical part is the protective dome to shield the Radar from the elements.

I was born in Eagle Pass, then my parents moved to Del Rio, Texas when I was 5 months old with 5 other siblings. Grew up and schooled in Del Rio. I was in Cordoba, Spain at the Mosque in 1997 where I saw a relatives sarcophagus dating 1390. I come from the Visigoths, Burgundian French, Spanish Conquistadors and Floridian Seminole Native Indians. Whole lot of history hidden in the middle of nowhere…! Cheers

My wifes extended family is from Brackettville since 1890. We moved to Fort Clark Springs in 2019 after i retired, cuz I loved it so much after visiting her family. There's so much history here that I can't write it all. Love small town TX life. Everyone is so friendly and knows one another. Economy is mainly ranch/farm and tourist based incomes here. 1600 people at last census, and most live on the Fort. We mostly shop in Del Rio, but there is a small grocery and 2 hardware stores, a few restaurants, gas station. We have a central post office where everyone in town comes to pick up their mail. Overall, its a slow,boring, easy going lifestyle. I love it. Please come back again to do a full video if you can, of the entire area, including the Fort, as well as a few of the farm roads. The Seminole and Brackettville cemeteries,etc.

I was born and raised in Del Rio. I love the San Felipe creek/springs and the Amistad Lake. Wonderful swimming spots and fishing spots too.

Aussie here. What a fascinating place and I love those signs, so retro!! Similarly, in Australia in country towns far from urban centres antique stores often contain valuable and highly prized items. Being from a country with no land borders it's always fascinating seeing different frontiers especially when culturally the countries are so different.

I was born and raised in Del Rio and worked for the phone company for 36 years. All that area around Carlos Grocery and UETA was fairly nice. Like someone already posted. The fence pretty much shut them down. I haven't been down there in many, many years. It's really kind of depressing.

I was born in Acuña! Good memories in Del Rio !! We used to walk on the bridge and then take a bus to go to HEB and do our groceries there 15 years passed and I returned just this summer, everything looks different now but the same at the same time lol

Love this idea of you exploring different towns and states .

Belive it or not. I use to know the owners. There last name was Cortes. I stayed in that house back in 1999 0r 2000 something. That house was the owners of the meat market and the gas station and that black metal fence was not there. It is crazy to see my friends houae 20 years later. RIP George Cortes

Surprised you didn’t go to the oldest winery in Texas, which is in Del Rio. There are also cave and wall paintings in the area, which are thousands of years old. Spanish missions as well, which are interesting given the missionaries taught the local apaches Spanish and now many of their ancestors have Spanish surnames

Oh my goodness. You hit two for me. My great grandmother’s farm before she moved to Eagle Pass was here. Thanks so much for showing this one too.

America would look much better if its vast resources were used back home instead of overseas. Eye-opening videos.

Towns certainly invest in their courthouses. The stretch of the RG was beautiful. Loved the Rexall sign. It’s amazing the town allows the trash to pile up. Great to see the goats owning the roads! Thank you for another great video!

Carlos groceries closed back when the internacional bridge got re-build and it took part of the street that would lead us to the old toll-booth. The store UETA also had to move (relocate) for the same reason.

I went to that rexall with my grandfather as a child I was born in Del Rio in 1966. Thanks man this was fun.

There is a Detention Center on the edge of Brackettville, Fort Clark Springs is there as well. Lots of ranches in Kinney County, entire county has less than 4000 people. I have a small ranch close to Brackett, it’s just past that big golf ball you were wondering about, it’s a National Weather Service Radar Station. Lots of history in that county, you just barely scratched the surface.

During August 1979 I was travelling with a group of friends from the UK on a journey from New York to Los Angeles through the southern states. After a couple of weeks on the road we pitched up in Del Rio. We decided it would be a nice idea to walk across the Rio Grande bridge into the town of Acuña for dinner. We showed our British passports to an immigration official in a tiny office and then walked across the deserted bridge into Mexico. We were the only people around, the bridge was empty. We had a lovely time in Acuña, a few drinks in a very dark bar and then moved on to a very friendly restaurant where we enjoyed our dinner, and then walked back across the bridge. We had to show our passports again to the same officer who dealt with us only a few hours previously, he was very thorough.This is why I find your video so surprising. I know I am talking about a visit that took place almost forty four years ago, but looking at Del Rio now in your film, it is totally unrecognisable, both the town, and the horrendous situation concerning the enormous number of immigrants at what’s looks like a different bridge from how I remember it, trying to enter the United States.

Bracketville is where the Alamo movie with John Wayne was filmed. The Alamo set with the buildings is there...pretty neat to go there several years ago ...

Del Rio has an Air Force Base. It is not a large base but important for USAF pilot training. My point on your travels you usually ignore the presence of military bases. They are significant because they do contribute to the economy and culture of the host communities.

Lord; Thank you for the eye opening video’s, it is sad to watch, what once was a country to be proud of, now makes me sick to think, we may not get it back! Thanks again.

Love your videos! Just came to say that the "ball on a platform" you saw outside Brackettville is a NEXRAD waether radar.

Those goats are Texas lawn mowers.

How interesting your border videos have been. Rather quiet too, which is good. I'm sorry, but I find the different fencing in Del Rio hilarious. Different administration - different fencing?! Like you said, some look "sample" like.

The white ball on the platform is a Doppler Radar station. Next time here head West to Lake Amistad, Comstock, north to Juno then west to Pandale and back south to Langtry, home of Judge Roy Bean, Law West of the Pecos. Back east on Hwy 90 to the Pecos River, old railroad bridge and back to Comstock. You would love the town of Langtry. Great reports !

Some of the movies filmed at Bracketville, TX are The Alamo (john Wayne 1960 and Alamo still there), Arrowhead (1953), Two Rode Together (1961), Bandolero! (1968), Barbarosa (1982), Lonesome Dove (1989), and Bad Girls (1994). It was abandoned but still there intact as all old film locations are left after the movie.

I JUST STARTED FOLLOWING YOUR VIDEOS YESTERDAY AND THEY BRING ME PEACE AMD JOY..I FEEL LIKE IM THERE EXPLORING WITH UOU

Brackestsville is the location of the original movie “The Alamo” with John Wayne. They had the entire Alamo along with the Fort built outside of town snd that is where the movie was filmed. Alamo Village was opened to the public when I was a kid (i will be 70 next spring) and my father took us there on vacation. Also Del Rio has a Air Force flight training base there. Lots of Top Guns running around. Merry Christmas and lots of blessings in the new year!

Downtown Del Rio is pretty dead, the main bulk of commerce largely takes place along and around Veterans Boulevard. Del Rio is small, but not that small. The downtown is not an accurate portrayal of the rest of Del Rio.

Interesting ride. Loved seeing all along the border. The sleepy-looking towns have a charm all their own. When you come thru Mississippi get off I-10 at Franklin Creek Road to go thru Grand Bay and Bayou La Batre. The Bayou has a tremendous shrimping/fishing fleet. Boats built there are delivered all around the world. Follow Coden Shell Belt Road to the west. The Mississippi Sound will be 2 steps from the passenger door! A couple of beautiful old homes too. You'll come back out on Hwy. 188. Go west to Hwy. 163 and turn south to Dauphin Island. When the road dead ends go left. Follow signs to the Shell Mounds. Can you imagine eating so many oysters? Ft. Gaines is at the west end. Ride the ferry across to Ft. Morgan, another civile war fort.

Ciudad Acuña (Ah-coo-nya). Thanks for visiting our small city, Del Rio. I wish you had shown the park where you ended that portion of the video. It's called San Felipe Creek. People have been coming to these waters for thousands of years. Cold water year round. Especially helpful when we get up to 100+ degree weather. That "ball" at the end is the Doppler radar station.

Your pertinacity revealed yet another break in the porous armour of a generally chaotic immigration policy; but, in doing so, we all got to view close up the gently rippling surface (with cat-o-nine tails in the foreground and old men with fishing poles in the distance) of the legendary Rio Grande. Also appreciative of being shown around Del Rio, yet another, gritty, bent-on-surviving small border city-and the bonus of entering Bracketville with its bold family of four goats! Your videos mesmerize.

That ball is a Doppler radar for the airport and weather alert system

My hometown Del Rio TX

I would be careful those wires hanging down should be telephone wiring in most states anyway the lowest wires are telephone, then next up is cable lines then above that is electricity I learned that as a Cable TV installer years ago! Be safe out there and love your videos especially the Texas border town ones they’re awesome!

I'm originally from Eagle Pass, i don't know if it's still there, but Bracketville hada replica of the Alamo. John Wayne filmed it there. My uncles and grandfather played Mexican soldiers in the film. If you revisit it go and check if it's still there!

The goats keep the weeds down to the ground that's why they let them go wherever they want to

I am addicted to your content. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks for sharing Del Rio Texas my dad was stationed at Laughlin Air Force Base. I know I’ll never get back to see Del Rio Texas so you sharing made my day. Thanks Like to give a shout out to Janis Mannard Del Rio law enforcement. Keep up the good work and stay safe

Migrants didn't bring TVs, stoves and barbecue pits. Before the area was seized by Trump for his wall, this was known as La Zona de Amistad (The Friendship Zone), where free trade and crossing was allowed on both sides. Carlos' was a place Texans would park to walk into Acuña (pronounced ac-oonya) and Acuña residents would walk across to shop here, Walmart, etc.

Bracketville Texas was where the Alamo was filmed. Starring Marion Morrison. It’s still standing although the public isn’t allowed there anymore.

You doing an important work !!!! I watch your videos almost every day 😊

At 17:00 that’s Vega Verde, there are cameras behind you and border patrol on hills just watching. My aunt has a ranch there.

Outside Bracketville there used to be...maybe still is....a place called Alamo village. It was a replica of the Alamo and the buildings near it, all of which you see if you watch John Wayne's movie titled The Alamo...which was filmed there.

That ball as you called it is a Radome or a house for a radar. It could be a weather radar or aviation radar watching for aircraft.

Hello and thank you for covering this. Much appreciated……. i’ve just watched Jonathan Lee Richards. He covers the migrant crisis really very well and I just love watching him go round these little cute towns pretty much what you’re doing ….my ancestors immigrated to some in New York some in Louisiana, some in Texas And some in Idaho…. Obviously they came in the right way so obviously a lot of my cousins are in these places ….not only that my Daughter lives there too she was married there ….. I would love to visit some of these little places, and I’m out there in the middle of July for holiday …. Kim🇬🇧

I remember the powerful AM radio station we picked up all the way in the Ark-la-Tex to the northeast.Station was across the border in Mexico and Wolf man jack dee jayed there in the 60s☺

As a border town Texan (west) it's bittersweet to see this. You know how it was versus what it's become. Very sad but it was a needed decision to make the fence. Still sucks that it turned out this way due to people that won't follow the laws of the land.

Your videos are taking me on a road trip of america !!!! Fantastic . . . I appreciate you taking us along and showing us what the u.s.a. looks like at the time of your video filming . . 😊👍

I was born in Asherton Texas and haven’t been back since we left that was 68 years ago. We used cross the border at Eagle pass to go int Mexico. You did a video on Eagle pass and was wondering if you drove through Asherton

I was born here in Del Rio and I still live here. I kinda hate it here because of the lack of shit to do, but it's still my home. I honestly don't believe the 1400 number. I live pretty close to the border and I know the area you were looking at and I've yet to see anyone hop the fence in my 18 years of life.

Dude, you never beg for likes like other youtubers. I freaking hate when they do that and usually dislike their vids. Since you don't and your videos are awesome, I always like your videos.

Wow! That Carlos Grocery has seen better days. Looked like a pretty large store. Crazy. Wonder if the store owners lived in the adjacent home? Wonder what he story is with all that trash piled up at that old gas station. Looks like the city would make them clean it up. Looks like the road might have been rerouted?? Not sure. One things for sure You're not scared to go the farthest you can go. Even up to the river. Pretty countryside. Thanks for such a great video! I've really been enjoying these border videos!

I really enjoyed this series. I live in the Great Plains of Texas and always interested in the border.

I'm amazed you didn't get pulled over at all by border patrol or military people I'm from Del Rio born n raised I know my town pretty well I worked for the Trash for 4 years and delivered the Trash Cans as well I know all the streets by names throughout the city and outside the city limits....I even have footage on my cell phones during all that Haiti Problem I was over there under the bridge where you wanted to go due to my job

The thick black wires are telephone lines, the 3 on the very top are the power electrical lines, FYI

I am a native Acunense and knew Del Rio as a child. Last visit to my hometown was in 1982 and have never been back. Greetings pal.

Thanks for another great job, LS. Stay safe.

That’s the Doppler radar for the Air Force base

Most people in Bracketville work for the border patrol or the Air Force base

Hi Lord Spoda Thanks for this another interesting video. Bracketville is really cool, peaceful small town. @31:25 nice looking courthouse, 31:48 fascinating store fronts with old trees surrounding. Curious to know about those typical tropical sprawling trees. Hope someone will supply information about those trees. All these small towns lined along border are so unusual and interesting! Enjoyed and got to know something more. Best!

That goats had a work. They're mowing the backyard hehe

Power lines are on the very top of those poles. Lower lines are for cable tv and telephone.

I have swam in the River. It was cool but you have to Be aware there is quick sand in parts of it. So you have to be careful.

On the outskirts where in your video you see where the Rio Grande is closer, you can actually see the sand where very little water passes at the Mexican/American border at the Rio Grande. Less than half an inch deep.

Great video's!!..so interesting, "everything"..what a way of life down there , but the people that are from there are so used to way it is..simplest of living,. Safe Travels!! Keep Safe, thank you for sharing with us.🌼

I used to live in Del Rio when a child; it's sad the way it looks now .

that "ball" is a weather radar.

You should have gone west on 90 to Comstock and Langtry

I was wondering if at any point along your journey have you been pulled over because the authorities thought you might be picking people up?

When I was in Del Rio in June, '19 you could ether drive into Mexico at the crossing (looks like a turnpike toll both) for I think $15, or you could do like I did and walk across the bridge for a .25 cent toll. May have changed a lot since my day. The tree at :37 looks like the I parked under, and got a slow leak. :)

Why did you not go into the history of Brackettville as well as Fort Clark Springs?

this is like 10% of Del Rio, you did not show the most populated areas

I might add , your commentary is spot-on !!!! . . Just enough and good facts 👍

Hey Joe&Nics love watching your videos very educational I was wondering if you guys have ever done a video on Plum Grove Texas

You can get you a good cheap breakfast in a Stripes gas station there. They even make the tortillas from scratch.

I was I Del Rio last week… if you go to the stripes (gas station) on veterans blvd you might spot immigrants waiting on a bus en route to San Antonio or Houston

Yay for bonus footage!! :)

That church belongs to the bank. Historical buildings.

That big round ball on a tire is a Doppler radar brackettville is where the movie The Alamo was filmed fella's name was happy shahan and he promoted the place back in the seventies

That ball you saw by Brackettville its the Dopler Radar controlled by Laughlin Air Force Base thank you

Tiny abandon towns are very interesting for those wishing to connect the past with our presence.

I'm in Scotland and I've thoroughly enjoyed your trip down Mexico way to the Rio Grand!

Brackettville sort of supports Fort Clark Springs retirement community . If you look at Rusty 78609 videos he's got quite a few videos up driving around brackettville . I stayed in del rio once about 10 years ago on the main drag near the walmart and I got the impression it was not secure area, then maybe 3 years ago I went back and if anything it looked worse although IF you go a few streets North it cleans up a bit.

I go to Acuna and bring my friends over the border, in my new 2023 Tahoe!!!

Thanks missed this the first time around. Came up on my time line.

Radar ball, likely military aviation but possibly civilian aviation, weather, or a defense contractor. Regarding Bracketville, KZfaqr Rusty78609 has some videos about it. He is a retired RVer who moved to Fort Clark Springs (former fort, now a gated community which is part of, or adjacent to Bracketville?) from Llano, TX, and has a little house there as a home base for his RVing.

I love your videos just a idea maybe in some of the small town you stop in try to stop and talk to someone at the county court house to find out more about each place you stop. For example in your video of north TX the town of Paducah TX has some really cool old bank doors inside the building.

1:47 It look exactly the same on google maps Lord Spoda 'crazy eh, yep i love my google maps as it helps me find n investigate n look at so many places not just heir in greater Sydney but around the world.

Just wanted to let you know as a former student and current resident that that church is no longer a church but a lunch room for Sacred Heart Catholic School and the church is just off too the side and inside the out door pulpit on the bottom right that is holy water from the holy land in Israel

I recall visiting family out there when I was a kid 25 years or so ago Camping out at Garner (remember the dances) Aside from the huge fences doesn't seem like much has changed

This town is where I live. Downtown Del Rio is cool. And that market hasn't been open in so many years. The Border Patrol bought it to make room for a bigger crossing but never did.

Keep going down Vega Verde, it takes you all the way to Amistad Lake.

Amazing video my friend that little town looks like CALEXICO California. 👍

It has the original stones, some have been replaced.

1. Old wall 2. Incomplete new wall 3. Fence across the road from houses is likely private property 4. Could be fishermen, could be cartel. No one can cross without permission 5. J Luke answered this question You should have gone to the bus stop in Del Rio. Probably would have found people camped out around the building.

That is a weather radar dome.

My family from brackettville and I'm currently still living here. Brackettville and Fort Clark Springs calvary fort right across from convenient store are very interesting alot of wild west history, ww2 history, cold War history and not to mention alot of the land around here is very haunted and filled with all sorts of interesting energies and stories from past

I lived in Del Rio Texas all my life till I moved to Georgia in 1998

Del Rio once had one of the busiest post pffices in Texas because of XERF radio in Acuna...