Well, I’m damn sure that Mexico isn’t going to allow the fence to be built on their side of the Rio. So, according to our resident immigration experts here on FR, losing access to the Rio Grande and its water with a 20’ high electric fence is a perfectly acceptable trade. Try telling that to the farmers and ranchers who depend on that water.
Here is an interesting article detailing some of the absurdities of fencing the Rio Grande.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/28/nation/la-na-texas-fence-20110228
Exactly, but many are not looking at the reality on the ground. Red Meat rhetoric is everything for them, the facts, truth, and reality be damned.
See Posts 191 & 197...
I’ve built fences.
I wouldn’t want to have to build ‘em there.
And I don’t know how much good it’d do if I did.