Beowulf
06-17-2006, 09:29 AM
FALFURRIAS, Texas - <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = AT /><AT:CLASS></AT:CLASS>A few Texas ranchers tired of costly repairs to cattle fences damaged by illegal immigrants have installed an easier route over the U.S.-Mexican border - ladders. <AT:CLASS></AT:CLASS>"It's an attempt to get them to use the ladders instead of tearing the fences," said Scott Pattinson, who owns one of a group of ranches known as La Copa.
<AT:CLASS></AT:CLASS>La Copa is just south of a U.S. Border Patrol highway checkpoint that went up 75 miles from the border several years ago, sending migrants through the brambly scrub of nearby ranches instead.
<AT:CLASS></AT:CLASS>Some immigrants walk for hours or days to skirt the checkpoints in temperatures hovering around 100 degrees. Their feet have worn visible paths through a forest of cactus and mesquite otherwise thick enough to conceal them from Border Patrol helicopters overhead and agents only a few hundred yards away.
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Figures! Government won't do anything, the Minutemen can only do so much and the ranchers contribute to illegal causes by building ladders to save their ranches. What to do, what to do!!
<AT:CLASS></AT:CLASS>La Copa is just south of a U.S. Border Patrol highway checkpoint that went up 75 miles from the border several years ago, sending migrants through the brambly scrub of nearby ranches instead.
<AT:CLASS></AT:CLASS>Some immigrants walk for hours or days to skirt the checkpoints in temperatures hovering around 100 degrees. Their feet have worn visible paths through a forest of cactus and mesquite otherwise thick enough to conceal them from Border Patrol helicopters overhead and agents only a few hundred yards away.
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Figures! Government won't do anything, the Minutemen can only do so much and the ranchers contribute to illegal causes by building ladders to save their ranches. What to do, what to do!!