Morlocks

Working, quite literally, on the border with Mexico has been an education.  It's one thing to read in the paper about US policy on transients moving up and back across the border.  It's another to actually see them do it.

This morning was a case in point.  About a dozen enterprising folks from Mexico somehow got across the official border wall (which is currently corrugated metal in this area), and...

     Ran across a 100 foot wide road and drainage ditch

     Broke away heavy bolts holding a steel grating that covered the end of a 36 inch diameter storm drain pipe

     Crawled through about 200 feet of pipe containing years of mud and dirt

     Pushed away a street grating (which weighs about 100 pounds) a few feet from my office

     Ran across an open field

     Climbed the 8 foot tall chain link fence bordering my facility

All to get access to the US.

Impressed?  Yes.  Wouldn't you be?

It leaves me wondering what all powerful need would convince people to take such risks and undergo such hardships.  And why our draconian immigration policy offers no other options.  I sure don't have an answer.