One can hope that some of the citizens there are acting against those truly responsible for their misery. We need most of that fence up as soon as possible. The Administration has been foot-dragging on it long enough and I still wonder why they awarded most of that to a company that builds jetliners.
Even stranger - I just heard from Lou Dobbs’ show that there’s ten reinforced footbridges - barely monitored - across the Rio Grande in non-urban Texas areas. A local sheriff said there’s no official justification for them yet there they are.
We can hope.
there’s ten reinforced footbridges - barely monitored - across the Rio Grande in non-urban Texas areas. A local sheriff said there’s no official justification for them yet there they are.
I saw a program some time back, CBS or CNN. On the Rio Grande, shallow place, they showed a metal fence with a big metal gate, really tall. The gate was always open. It was a thoroughfare.
I used to go dove hunting every September at the Rio Grande levee at Tornillo (just downriver from Fabens).
There was a small Mexican village across the river (just a creek there because of irrigation). There was a small footbridge there, and young Mexican boys would walk over it when they heard shooting, and offer to go pick up and clean downed birds for whatever change you would give them.
Those same boys would also bring small herds of goats over to the American side to graze them on the better grass there. They would drive them home when they finished, and nobody seemed to mind.
What a different world it was then.