Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner

We are continuously amazed at the length and expense that our government is going to to try to deal with this "Border Issue". It is incredible the number of Border Patrol vehicles and personnel that are involved in this. Lots of scary warning signs on trails and campgrounds. Giant fenced buildings with razor wire and 'holding facilities' are being constructed every where down here and the green and white SUV's seem to be parked and hiding at every intersection and around every corner watching all the cars. It is huge industry. There are balloon/blimps as eyes in the sky watching 24/hrs a day with infrared cameras every hundred miles or so, and who knows what else they have in high-tech gadgetry. At regular checkpoints we are asked where we have been and where we are going and if we are citizens and they make a quick glance into the back. If Steve is wearing dark glasses it seems to go a little slower and they are a little more aggressive. We know that we are photographed before we ever get to the checkpoint as you can see the banks of cameras on the sides of the roads. They have sniffing dogs that circle every vehicle and these road stops are on both the freeways and on small country roads in the middle of nowhere. Trying to express our displeasure at this invasion of our privacy and ability to have our freedom does not get a satisfactory response and it is very intimidating to have them with all the guns and manpower and us just trying to go where we want to go. All this and it is still pretty ineffective as there are people continuing to run through areas that just cannot be contained. Our friend saw a person slip out of the woods onto the road and flash a mirror at someone on a hill behind them then slip back into the woods. So low tech may beat high tech after all. Much like the coyote, a lot of "Acme" products are destroyed, and a lot of money wasted, and the roadrunner just zooms on. It is almost funny to see it unfolding just like the old cartoons.
Lots of locals have bumper stickers that say: Protect the Borders ... at the Borders. And we would agree.    ....... beep beep.

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