Fencing The Border
It is disconcerting to think that the future of the nation’s cattle industry could lie in this administrations ability to build fences. I’m Jeff Keane and I will be back to explain right after the break. After the fiasco of the government and the auto industry is it any wonder ranchers along our southern border are worried about how this administration will construct the border fence? Here is Susan Allen’s with her “ two sense”. Where do I start? Jeff Witt, Director of Agriculture Biosecurity at the New Mexico Department of Agriculture was quoted recently in a Washington Times article stating that “it could take only one cow to bring down the economy of the whole nation.” What he was referring to was the fact Mexican cattle with bovine Tuberculosis and other diseases can now easily slip into the United States through the hodgepodge of fencing the Department of Homeland Security is installing in New Mexico. That regions ranching community envisioned a twenty foot continuous fence but what the government is building instead in places, is a 3 ft barrier primarily constructed to stop vehicles but not people or cattle from hopping over. Susan those folks that ranch along our southern border have put up for years with the fact our government hasn’t protected them from illegals who tear down fencing and trash their land so I doubt they are very surprised that the US government can’t design a cattle proof fence. I’m Jeff Keane.