Jack booted thugs from… Wisconsin, Michigan, New Hampshire…
Marisa Treviño, at Latinalista has nicely summarized the situation here along the Rio Grande/Bravo del Norte.
Homeland Security is going on with its plan to construct a double-row steel fence through the city of Laredo, Texas and over 153 miles along the Texas-Mexico border.
According to Homeland Security, and Congress, the American people want this barrier between Mexico and US. But it’s the American people in Wisconsin, Michigan, New Hampshire, etc. that think such a fence is good.
The majority of American people who actually live along this border think it’s a bad, bad idea.
Not just because Michael Chertoff, Homeland Security Secretary, promised to keep border residents in the loop as to when and where the fence would be built – he didn’t — but because such a fence would harm the special relationships that border communities have with one another.
The full post (and links) are here.
Folks outside the region get some weird idea that it’s only the Mexican-Americans who think this is nuts. No… it’s the Chambers of Commerce, the environmentalists, the health care folks, the schools, the ranchers and farmers, our elected officials …
This cuts access to our water, to our business customers, destroys the tourism industry and … unless Homeland Security is planning on buying all of us health insurance, it cuts us off from our local doctors and pharmacists.
mexfiles.net 
I can’t speak for my neighbors to the east but most Minnesotans I talk with think the idea of a fence is ludicrous. A boondoggle at best. And one of most pathetic attempts of this administration to spoon-feed us their version of “safety” from the fear-mongering they spew out of the other side of their mouths.
Of course, all we hear up hear from the press is how people on the boarder “want” the fence. It’s good, in some weird and twisted way, to learn that’s not actually the case.