90 Miles From Tyranny : The Odd Book One Texas Rancher Found Near the Border

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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

The Odd Book One Texas Rancher Found Near the Border

An Urdu-to-English dictionary was not something Mike Vickers expected to find on the rocky earth underneath the cattle fencing around his 1,000-acre Texas ranch.

Yet there it was — dropped, Vickers guesses, when its carrier got zapped by his fence’s electricity, and adding yet another dimension to the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border, where tens of thousands of people have been flooding into the United States.

Vickers’ property line runs along Highway 281, just 4 1/2 miles north from the Falfurrias Border Patrol station. The station itself is about 70 miles north of the Rio Grande, the first highway checkpoint for vehicles coming from Mexico in an area known for heavy illegal alien and drug trafficking. Instead of moving through the checkpoint, however, Vickers said that up to 30 people cross his property every day to try to evade the Border Patrol. Years ago, it was only a handful a day.
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2 comments:

edutcher said...

Gee, Urdu is the official language of Pockeestahn.

What could possibly be amiss?

Differ said...

No...it was dropped by a proffessor of Southwest Asian studies from the u iversity of Honduras during his trek to the US immigration office to legally apply for residency in the US. Perfectly normal...nothing to see here ..move along