The Lookout: The Texans who live on the ‘Mexican side’ of the border fence—‘Technically, we’re in the United States’

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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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Waldo Jaquith (JAKE-with) is an open government technologist who lives near Char­lottes­­ville, VA, USA. more »

One reply on “The Lookout: The Texans who live on the ‘Mexican side’ of the border fence—‘Technically, we’re in the United States’”

  1. As a kid, I lived a few miles from the East/West German border. Occasionally we’d take field trips, and the guides would point out the ridiculousness of houses split by the border.

    I was so happy when such foolishness was over in 1990.

    . . .

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