The ACLU is stil upset about our border blogging series. You might be surprised to find, if you read the posts on the ACLU’s “Blog of Rights,” we actually agree on a good deal–including the importance of getting border security done right. The ACLU blog went so far as to “agree with him [that's me] that there is no single solution to difficulties that we face there [on the border], both in maintaining security and, hopefully, in respecting the human rights and dignity of all people.” Now, here is where …
The ACLU is not happy. Last week and earlier this week I wrote a series of blog posts about my trip to the Tucson sector of the U.S.-Mexico border and the challenges facing the Border Patrol. The “official” ACLU blog took exception to my observations on three points: Objecting to the fact that border security which disrupts smuggling routes destroying the high desert environment is good idea. Complaining about border security that is intended to combat human smuggling practices which are becoming more dangerous and deadly putting innocents increasingly at …
