Adventures of the Coconut Caucus

We all know that in Washington, people who have never been to the border love to build stuff on the border, but apparently the Minutemen aren´t the only ones having fence trouble these days….

Turns out, that on the American side of la frontera, the people who actually live there aren´t so hot about having that huge triple Berlin Wall look alike in their backyard…

McALLEN - The chief of the U.S. Border Patrol told angry mayors, businessmen, and environmentalists Friday the 700-mile border fence was law, and if his agency and local officials reach an impasse on where the fence should go, “then it’s up to someone to make a decision.”

Local officials have been fuming over what they consider the secrecy concerning a fence they say will cut farmers off from water, harm wildlife, ruin recreational areas and send a hostile message to Mexico, Texas’ biggest trading partner.

Within months of getting Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff’s assurances that decisions on the fence’s location would not be made without their input, coalition members intercepted a confidential U.S. Customs and Border Protection memo that included a map of the fence.

They could always just build it on the Mexican side when they buy the country and make it the 51st State, sorry Puerto Rico…