The Not-So-Great Wall of Mexico

By LAWRENCE DOWNES
Published: April 20, 2008

Remember the fence, the one that Congress told Michael Chertoff, head of homeland security, to build on the Mexican border, with the admonition to let no power on earth stop him — no law or statute, no judge or jury? That fence?

News reports out of New Mexico and Texas suggest that it may not be all the wall that it was cracked up to be, or hoped for by the hunker-downers in Congress and on talk radio who clamored for it as the first and most important step toward an illegal-alien-free America.

“Feds Say Border Fence Not Tough Enough,â€