Monday, April 25, 2011

The greening of the border

It's been many years since we traveled US90 from Del Rio to Marathon.
Green and white Border Patrol vehicles are everywhere, at the many
highway check points, skulking on side roads, and slowly trolling down
the dirt trace roads for footprints. This last was new to us, sand
roads that paralleled the highway for miles, like freeway frontage
roads. We surmised that the Border Patrol fashioned them as barriers
to indicate where illegals have crossed, then to mount a search. We
even saw one truck slowly pulling a large tire behind, to smooth the
sand surface.

It's not working of course, but it's nice to see them making an effort.

Leigh Anderson
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