> I have known border ranchers in TX and I’d wager they’d gladly give up a bit of land if it promised to cut down on the slew of illegals crossing their land and forcing them to hide in their houses at night.
kender: You have no skin in the game do you? You’d lose that wager. The idea that all landowners have the same problems as the most vocal Arizona ranchers is false. Arizona can do whatever it wants, I don’t give a rat’s behind, but if they think they can dictate what happens in TX, they’ve got another thing coming. You’ll fight to the last Texan over your border fence, right?
Meanwhile the Justice Department has over 100 lawsuits against landowners for access to their property so they can decide how much private land they are going to claim. Meanwhile, you decide fence = progress, no fence = no progress. Yet illegal apprehensions (traditional measure for 60 years) are way down for the last two years with no fence, and the housing bubble pop is taking it down even more since many of them were participating in the housing construction craze. Illegal immigration has always risen and fallen with the US economy. Still, you want our land to satisfy your quest for progress! Then after the fence is built you’ll tell us the bad news. Not enough guards to patrol it to make it effective. So we triple the force again, and now we’ve got tens of thousands of low-paid security guards roaming our property with guns.
And you know what? You’re not done yet screwing us. Because most illegal aliens cross LEGALLY. So your army of border agents won’t help that, while they make my life miserable and your full court border press makes my business difficult and erodes my profits, and I have nothing to do with illegal aliens. But you’ll happily kill my livlihood to get a fence so you’ll feel you’re solving problems you wouldn’t even know about if you didn’t hear it on the news.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003789954_fence15.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1642633020070516?feedType=RSS&rpc=22
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5667062.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22687964/
http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20080221/NATION/940870143
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/27/ap/national/mainD8L14R9G0.shtml
