At a remote Texas border crossing, pleas for 'no wall'

BOQUILLAS DEL CARMEN, Mexico - At this remote border crossing in Big Bend National Park, the loudest sound is the babbling Rio Grande. Amid lush green stands of cane, a ferryman waits to row tourists across the river in a battered metal dinghy.

The U.S. government closed Las Boquillas ("little mouths" in Spanish) border station after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. It reopened in 2013 with two automated kiosks and a lone U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent. No wall was ever built.

The crossing has become popular with U.S. tourists who want to visit the tiny Mexican town