Some Texan: Dubya's Folly

Bush’s electronic $15 million per mile border fence still faulty after all these years

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S. C. Gwynne writes in "Empire of the Summer Moon" that another Texan, Sam Houston, once said to a Comanche chief who complained about whites straying onto Comanche land:

“If I could build a wall from the Red River to the Rio Grande, so high that no Indian could scale it, the white people would go crazy trying to devise a means to get beyond it.”

Evidently, it works both ways.