Brazil: rancher claims land US nun Dorothy Stang defended

As Brazilian President Lula received a phone call from just elected Barack Obama, there were signals of greater bilateral relations. However, other issues are in their pending agenda: the unfortunate killing of US...

Nev. rancher awarded $4.2M over 'taken' water rights

"The decision by U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Loren A. Smith involved the Fifth Amendment clause against private property being taken for public use without just compensation. The rancher, Wayne Hage, bought the sprawling Pine Creek Ranch in central Nevada in 1978."

Blimey, beheaded snake bites rancher

I've heard of a chicken running around with it's head cut off off, but a rattlesnake biting someone after being beheaded is just freaky. And as this rancher said, "It still gives me the creeps to think that...

Border rancher concerned about disease from illegal crossers

The holes, cut by individual migrants or blasted out by fence-crashing vehicles, also created an easy passageway for cattle. In an effort to keep Mexican cows out, and their own cows in, they would devote an entire day each week to repairing the breaches.

Minutemen to build border barrier (AP)

" TUCSON, Ariz. - A group opposed to illegal immigration plans to build a 14-foot tall, military-style barrier that would stretch nearly a mile along the Mexican border. The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps' barrier near Naco was approved because the rancher's land is more than...

County decides it cannot block Minuteman fence

"The group plans to build a new security fence on private property, and Cochise County officials say there is nothing to stop the fence from being built."

Humane Borders News

"They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat upon them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water."  -- Isaiah 49:10

Warriors For Truth -- Illegal Immigration News

Also exclusive photographs from the Mexican border.

a better idea than machine-readable biometric identity cards for migrant workers

Proposal to implant RFID tracking tags in migrant workers.

overhaul must break the culture that encourages illegal work force

A machine-readable biometric identity card for migrant workers.

Life on a troubled frontier

An interesting report of what is happening along the 1,952 mile southern border from the Gulf of Mexico to the beach at California.
 

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