Ready or not, border wall construction appears imminent
By JAMES OSBORNE/The Monitor
June 30, 2007 - 9:17PM
McALLEN — In just 18 months, a significant portion of the Rio Grande Valley will be cut off from the river by the Department of Homeland Security’s border wall, designed to control illegal traffic from Mexico.

Thus far, protest has been incessant.

Those voices of dissent range from the farmer worried about losing access to his irrigation pumps on the Rio Grande, to the Minuteman who thinks ground sensors and all elements of “virtual fencingâ€