Cowboys Strike Again

Our friends the minutemen are at it again. This ultra-conservative, anti-immigration, group of backwater wanna-be cowboys have decided to construct two short security fences on a private ranch in Arizona as part of their brilliant plan to stop illegal immigration. The fence will be constructed "Israeli" style with a 15 foot tall pair of chain mesh fences, and an unpaved road in between the two barriers. The fence will be monitored independently via various web-cameras to monitor the fencing. This is good, while we have genocide occurring all over Africa, an Iranian president who is dead set on developing nuclear weapons, an overstretched military overseas, an inept United Nations, and our own domestic political problems, these minutemen are really serving their country by spending thousands of dollars so they can play cowboys and Indians out west. Besides the obvious practical problems of such horribly thought out plan (i.e. immigrants will simply walk around the fence, or find other ways to enter the U.S. illegally), the root of the problem of illegal immigration is not being addressed; only the symptoms are being treated. What America needs to focus on is why we are hiring workers without proper paperwork, why Americans will not perform the hard labor that these workers seek to find, and why we are not working more with Vicente Fox to come up with a solution that will work for both the U.S. and Mexico.