Border Crisis: Fact or Fiction Tour
Thursday, 22 September 2011 00:01
Gray Line Tucson’s “Border Crisis: Fact or Fiction” tour brings people from all over to the U.S.- Mexico border. The tour’s motto is to “let the border speak for itself.” The tour’s purpose is to educate the public about current border issues by having people experience the border for themselves. The tour happens twice a month for most of the year, for a price of $89 for a single ticket.
“Everyone gets their information from somewhere else,” said Chris DeSimone, director of sales and marketing for Gray Line Tucson. “We get the perspective from business people from the border, ranchers and border patrol.”
One of the ranchers who frequently speaks on the “Border Crisis: Fact or Fiction” tour is Dan Dowell, who has been a rancher on the border since 1938.
The tour also goes to the Humane Borders water tanks. Humane Borders was founded in 2000, to “create a humane and just border environment,” according to their website.
The idea to tour the border sprang forth from a number of reasons. But one of the main reasons was that one of the top five national issues in the country is just south of our doorstep.
“A few years ago we did a tour of South Tucson. Obviously, there were tourists from other places, but we noticed that a lot of locals were showing up,” said DeSimone. “They felt safe to go to these places they otherwise wouldn’t, with us. Also, after Katrina, Gray Line New Orleans did tours of where the levees broke and things like that.”
The tour takes place on the following dates:
October 7, 2011
October 21, 2011
November 4, 2011
November 18, 2011
December 9, 2011
January 27, 2012
February 10, 2012
February 24, 2012
March 9, 2012
March 23, 2012
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