American travelers returning from Tijuana say they're being charged thousands of dollars to cross the border for what amounts to simply being in the wrong lane.
Both described being treated like criminals and forced to pay thousands of dollars so their vehicles wouldn’t be impounded at the Tijuana/San Ysidro Port of Entry. It wasn’t a shakedown by Mexican authorities. It was"We just got into the wrong lane. We didn't do anything else wrong but get into the wrong lane," said Bernardo Montenegro and his common law wife Patricia Caro ofThe lane he’s referring to is called Sentri Lane.
Travelers told FOX 11 that they flagged a CBP agent before they got to the actual checkpoint to let them know they had accidentally driven to the wrong lane. "They basically shackle you to a bench for two, three hours," he said. "They say, 'Yep, we're gonna take your car,' or, 'we're gonna fine you $5,000,' for what amounts to being in the wrong lane of traffic."
"When I was in the office waiting, one of the agents came in and he shouted at everyone else in the office, ‘Oh, we got another $5K,’" she said. "Obviously, it was someone else that went through the same thing I did. So, I just thought to myself, Oh, this is just a business."
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