(Border) Fence plan alarms landowners – Texas

“Ranching magnate Bill Moody’s vast holdings spread across three Texas counties and include 35 miles of frontage along the Rio Grande, where thousands of illegal immigrants and smugglers have crossed from Mexico into the United States. They have worn paths through Moody’s pastures, cut his fences and stolen some of his cattle.

From his perch on the front lines of the battle against illegal immigration, Moody would seem to be the type of person who would embrace the federal government’s most provocative effort to stop illegals from entering this country: a plan to build 700 miles of fence along the 2,100-mile Southwest border, including Moody’s land. Instead, Moody is a powerful voice in a growing alliance of border landowners and local law enforcement officials who oppose a fence.”

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