Read about it somewhere a month or two ago, and it is true, at least at San Ysidro - Tijuana border crossing.
I love to get away from Dallas heat in the summer, and sometimes even non summer, and San Diego is a great destination. But $25 clean hotels it does not have
TJ, OTOH, does
$2.50 Trolley ride to the border, another $2.50 back - the only drawback is the horrendously long wait for Immigration to come back.
Until now. On my previous visit only had to show my passport to enter Mexico, but this time, they put a STAMP in it
May not matter to everyone, but my last passport was completely FULL a whole year before expiration, so had to get a new passport early