TikTok-er's Taunting Take on Traversing US-Mexico Border

Kit Johnson

19 Jul 2026

By ByteDance - TikTok Logo PNG, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84625706

Y'all. I've spent way too much time trying to make the title of this post fully alliterative. And I failed. Alas.

So, anyhoo, I thought this TikTok by @rudyayoub was pretty funny. And, frankly, accurate. Should you need a little something to get the convo started about border crossings...

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