Immigrant Wars Get Uglier

Brian Doherty | June 15, 2006

Water tanks placed by the Humane Borders nonprofit, intended for illegal immigrants making hazardous desert border crossings, are being targeted by vandals--identifying flags removed, water dumped out, or shot out--presumably as a tactic in the "war on illegals."

One way to keep illegals from wandering willy-nilly through border territory, and to prevent the problems that landowners and locals living near those borders complain about from immigrants stumbling across and through their land, would be to make it easier for those people to just take a bus into the U.S.