The Fence

For those of you who don't know, the US Government has built a fence along many, many miles of the US-Mexican border.  Without getting into politics a bunch, here is what happened.  President Bush started it; President Obama stopped it.

The fence has many openings and gates to allow farmers and others access to the land which lays between the fence and the Rio Grande River.  At most of these openings, the gates were not constructed so just an opening exists.  As you drive along the highway next to the fence, you will notice a Border Patrol vehicle at almost every one of these!

Of course, illegal immigrants ("undocumented" if you are a lefty) are a big topic in the Rio Grande Valley.  From where we were parked in LaFeria, we could see the expressway and there were Border Patrol busses running down that expressway all day every day (taking the illegals back home, I presume).  Now we are going to send the illegals back further into Mexico so that they won't be threatened by the drug cartels along the border!

One last note: it has been reported that of the illegals apprehended in South Texas, about 70% of them are "OTM"s, or "Other Than Mexican".  This includes people from Honduras, Guatemala, and several countries in the Middle East.  The fact is that if you want to enter the US illegally, the easiest way to do it is to go to Mexico, then come across the border.