I don’t think the Border Fence that is supposed to be 1,952 miles long though the states of California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas is a very good idea and either do a lot of other people including the Governor of Texas clamoring that it is going to cost billions of dollars, create havoc in some small towns and create environmental problems in others, but this is not my problem with the fence. It’s that it is a fence. A fence doesn’t put the fear of God into anyone, it conjures up, white pickets and a desire to climb and jump. Now a wall is a more formable idea and is longer lived and in the future it could be maintained as a tourist attraction, a remembrance of how the greatest country in the world kept the marauding Mexicans out. But my real desire is that instead of a fence or wall we should create a moat with crocodiles. And this is a possibility, all Secretary of Homeland Defense Michael Chernoff has to do is give a thumbs up, since Congress passed the Secure Fence Act in 2005 and it was signed by President Bush in 2006, gave Chernoff more power than God when it comes to the fence. It seems Congress gave him a mandate to do anything he wants and recently he suspended 30 laws so the fence could keep being built. These laws protecting such things as “the environment, endangered species, antiquities, farms, deserts, forests and Native American graves”, nytimes.com, were deemed unlawful by the fence Czar. The Fence Act also ruled that it was quite all right for the fence to divide the lands of three Native American Nations. But, hey Native Americans are used to getting screwed by the United States government. Why did Congress give all this power to Chernoff? Most likely because Congress didn’t want to be shown being soft on immigration and end up being called out by Lou Dobbs in one of his nightly tirades about Mexicans running barefoot across the border and ruining the lives of middle America. He makes it sound like these Mexicans after they find a pair of shoes becomes middle managers in American companies, when in reality they are doing jobs that Americans won’t do, including a huge amount of agriculture jobs. Or it might be that they are afraid that “The Minutemen” self-proclaimed lynch mob created to protect the fence and keep out marauders might come knocking at their door. noinvaders.com. Or maybe it’s just the same old thing, Congress doing what it does best, moronic stuff. The whole idea of the fence seems to be a bit racist, too. I mean do you ever hear Lou yelling about putting a fence across the Canadian border. Some say the fence will, besides keeping out illegal aliens, will keep out terrorists and drugs, but last I heard the last two terrorists caught before they blew up LAX and the Space Needle came through Canada, not to mention the illicit migration of high quality marijuana that is also coming from Canada. So this whole fence thing seems ludicrous, but a moat, think about Mexicans being eaten by crocodiles thrashing in the water, and Lou Dobbs yelling at the scene, ‘that’s what you get, for ruining our lives’? Or better yet it could be used as the setting of reality TV show, The Moat, you make it across we’ll make you a citizen. Come on Mr. Chernoff use some of your all mighty power and give us a moat…