Texas Minutemen prepare to patrol Falfurrias ranch

From The Monitor:

'We've always had traffic,' he said on a recent evening on his ranch, located near the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint. He had just closed up his clinic for the night, but was still in his scrubs. Vickers put on his cowboy hat and nursed a cold beer.

'Initially, it was the old Mexican peasant. The past five years, it's just been hordes of people, huge groups of 100 to 150.'

'There's a violent segment coming across.'

Vickers said illegal immigration is hidden even to those living just miles north of the Rio Grande.

People are stealing farm equipment and plowing down fences, letting loose cattle and littering the Valley, he said.

In fact, Vickers says, some times up to seven to nine times a night, his cattle meander onto U.S. Highway 281 because an illegal immigrant cut his fence. He now has 7.5 miles of his fence electrified, but 'powered down so it won't kill �em.'

'People of the Valley are not exposed to the reality of the situation. They don't know the magnitude of the problem,' he said.

And it's not just property destruction that worries Vickers.

'Three days after the (presidential) inauguration...I was fixing a hole in my fence. I found dinars,' he said of the Sudanese currency. 'Sudan is an Arab terrorist state.

'The terrorist threat is incredible,' he said. 'We're demanding change.'