VOA News - Mexicans Critical of Minutemen Border Fence Construction

“While the immigration debate continues in Washington, the Minutemen are working to secure at least some small sections of the border on their own. They are constructing a fence - modeled in part on a barrier in Israel - along a 16-kilometer stretch of the border that is on private land.

The owner of the land, rancher Jack Ladd, says he invited the private volunteer group to build the barrier because of the constant flow of immigrants and drug smugglers across his property. He says the illegal entrants routinely cut cattle containment fences and that the U.S. Border Patrol has not stopped them.”

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