We've been visiting our son and his family at Laughlin in Del Rio off and on since December. Driving there from the airport in San Antonio, I see all the land, and hunting ranches on either side of 90, and have wondered about what kind of security must be required to maintain those places. Although, there's so much cactus there, I woudn't want to walk across that land.
I know that stretch of highway well. We are about an hour on down the road from there near Langtry. The record take is 35 illegals in our barn. We have an outdoor refrigerator that we leave beer in. It is wired into the Border Patrol office in Comstock. When they open the door, it sets off an alarm. The beer keeps 'em around long enough for the troops to arrive. They set up an ambush about half a mile away at the highway crossing. They have yet figured out what keeps getting 'em caught, so they keep on coming. We find navigation markers and trash all over the ranch after full moon nights.
Once I forgot to turn off the alarm and had to give all my buddies in "La Migre" a handfull of Macanudos to make up for the false alarm.
Good point. A coworker has Spanish Dagger (Yucca) on her property in Ash Canyon, and her side yard is one of the trails used for illegals headed north. She found bloody bandages one morning, somebody had walked right into the leaves of a Spanish Dagger.
