Pardon me for making sport of you, for so badly missing the point of the sat phones. It has nothing to do with a welfare hand out of a phone to a rancher. It has to do with SMALL GOVERNMENT, and if you really were a small government conservative, you would know that the best way to keep government SMALL is to allow a few ranchers to be de facto deputies - instead of hiring up a bunch of full time union folks we’ll have to retire at 55 and keep in health care til they’re 95. Yes, I was kind of amused at you for not understanding that the sat phone idea probably WAS the BEST SMALL GOVT SOLUTION.
I am sorry to have embarrassed you so badly.
Ranchers don’t have enough work on their own land without doing the Job the federal government should be doing.
Deputizing a few ranchers to stop an couple million illegals is as dangerous as it is foolish (The ACLU and trial lawyers are licking their chops over THAT)
One of the few constitutional powers and responsibilities vested by the Constitution to the federal government is securing the border
Not a few ranchers because its “cheap”
One of the things an small government conservative would know.
I’m embarrassed for your sorry understanding of the Constitution, conservatives and working ranches.(and farms)