Texas Rep. Thomas Latham witnesses border problems first hand
By Lynn Proctor Windle, Managing Editor

http://www.mesquitenews.com/articles/20 ... ws/986.txt

No matter how bleak the news stories are, none accurately convey exactly how dire the illegal immigration problem is along the Texas-Mexico borders, says a local Texas legislator who witnessed the problem first hand last week.

Texas Rep. Thomas Latham recently returned from a week-long stint at the border riding along with law enforcement officers and meeting with ranch owners who suffer the brunt of the physical damage from transients moving northward. Latham returned to the border Monday for a second fact-finding mission.

Latham said that surprisingly, only half of those are Mexican nationals, he said. The Border Patrol has rounded up people from South and Central America, China, India and even Brittan, he said.

“Only one in every two persons interdicted are from Mexico. And the had 102 who they couldn’t figure out where they were from,â€