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The Odd Book One Texas Rancher Found Near the Border
The Blaze ^ | 7-14-14 | Sara Carter

Posted on 07/14/2014 2:31:56 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather

An Urdu-to-English dictionary was not something Mike Vickers expected to find on the rocky earth underneath the cattle fencing around his 1,000-acre Texas ranch.

Yet there it was — dropped, Vickers guesses, when its carrier got zapped by his fence’s electricity, and adding yet another dimension to the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border, where tens of thousands of people have been flooding into the United States.

Vickers’ property line runs along Highway 281, just 4 1/2 miles north from the Falfurrias Border Patrol station. The station itself is about 70 miles north of the Rio Grande, the first highway checkpoint for vehicles coming from Mexico in an area known for heavy illegal alien and drug trafficking. Instead of moving through the checkpoint, however, Vickers said that up to 30 people cross his property every day to try to evade the Border Patrol. Years ago, it was only a handful a day.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; book; border; texas; urdu
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Claymore means never having to say you’re sorry.


21 posted on 07/15/2014 8:15:42 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: RatRipper

Ah for the good old days .....

Just think of the increased employment in the lamppost and rope making industries.


22 posted on 07/15/2014 10:23:14 AM PDT by khelus
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