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December 12, 2005
Minutemen Part 14
Last week Slate had a good article describing the dangers of life on the border for law abiding citizens:
Owen has lived in Sasabe for 10 years and has owned the ranch for three. She has two college degrees and reasonable politics, but that only goes so far when people walk through your property night after night. ("I'd like George and Laura Bush and their daughters to spend a few nights on my ranch all alone. We'll see what happens to border security then.") Something happened to her, the way it's happened along the rest of the border. There's a rancher in the area who used to leave a hose out for migrants to drink from as they passed through. But then his ranch started getting trashed, and the storage sheds full of tools and ranch supplies started getting broken into and looted. And migrants would leave the water on, a cardinal sin in southern Arizona, where most wells have to be drilled to 400 feet before hitting water. He took away the hose. And then he cut the spigot off the standpipe before welding over the top. No water for anyone, now.
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Posted by Pete at December 12, 2005 02:14 PM
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