The Lookout: The Texans who live on the ‘Mexican side’ of the border fence—‘Technically, we’re in the United States’
The fence between Mexico and the U.S. isn’t always on the border. Sometimes it’s over a mile away, leaving Texans’ homes on the wrong side of the fence, sandwiched against the Mexican border. They’ve had their property split in two by the fence, and some homeowners have found that the Border Patrol guards not the actual border, but the fence, leaving these folks as the first line of defense, and the fence second. →

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