MACALLEN, TEXAS: The View From Ground Zero

Last year, on the way to Blogcon, I struck up a conversation with "Rancher X" (a more clever pseudonym would have been "The Lone Rancher", but I missed that opportunity), who owns a sizable ranch near MacAllen, Texas. That two hour conversation led to a startling article entitled "CHAOS AND CORRUPTION ON THE SOUTHERN BORDER: A Texas Rancher Speaks", that describes the realities of a border area that more resembles a war zone than sovereign American land.

In any event, I dropped a note to the rancher this evening that read:

How are you holding up there? Hope you and your family are all doing well. Aren't you at the nexus of all of the craziness? Would love a firsthand report if you have time.

Thanks, Doug

The response came shortly thereafter:

The City of McAllen is doing their best to get the people fed and bathed and off to a bus to somewhere else because we are one of the poorest regions and we really are saturated and can’t support long term residents who have no ability to legally work.

And if people can’t work and they are left on the streets, it will lead to more crime here.

So, we just can’t have these people wandering the streets of the border and we need them to get on the bus and on to their destinations.

With all this news coverage, for once, we are getting plenty of support sent here to help the community move the immigrants through to other regions in the USA faster.

It's great to get these people on their way to other states because we are a poor region and we want to help them get to the Midwest where people welcome them and can afford to support them in the schools and such. They need to get to wealthier communities that have more money in their school districts to set up special classes for them and housing projects to give them homes since they don’t have work permits.

The media is hyping it and the politicians are always happy to show up where their are cameras.

That’s great for the border region because a lot of federal funds are now getting sent to move the people to the interior of the country where there is more space for them.

Here on the border, we are very crowded with poor people so we just can’t absorb any more.

This sounds like someone who is resigned to an open border and is simply hoping for the best.

I urge you to read the earlier article -- "CHAOS AND CORRUPTION ON THE SOUTHERN BORDER: A Texas Rancher Speaks" -- which is a firsthand account of a rancher dealing with a tsunami of lawlessness.

The politicians in both parties who support this madness are literally endangering every man, woman and child in this country.