Will Grigg's Liberty Minute
January 25, 2008

The border town of Eagle, Texas has long absorbed the costs of illegal immigration. Now it is learning that the federal solution to that problem might be even worse.

A US District Judge, acting on a request from the Department of Homeland Security, ordered the town to surrender 233 acres of city-owned land to the federal government. The land will be used for a section of the 700-mile fence the federal government supposedly intends to build along the border with Mexico.

The fence project will be hugely profitable to federal contractors and useless as a deterrent to illegal immigration. It will also displace many residents and businesses along the route. The Bush administration is expected to file more than 100 eminent domain lawsuits against landowners who object to the seizure of their property.

Not minimizing the problems associated with illegal immigration, it's clear that the real invaders here come from Washington, not Mexico.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.