Arizona Congressman Shares What US-Mexico Border Is Like Now
Workers move sections of the border wall Jan. 20, 2021, in Sasabe, Arizona. President Joe Biden has issued executive actions pausing the construction within seven days of a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. (Photo: Micah Garen/Getty Images)
Construction of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border stopped Jan. 20, thanks to President Joe Biden’s executive order, issued the day of his inauguration. What does this mean for the safety of Arizonans and many families who have ranches along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona?
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, joins the podcast to discuss that question, cartels, drug trafficking, and why he thinks Biden administration policies will encourage more illegal immigration.
Dale Lewis
E-E Columnist
Welcome back. Millionaires to mermaids, you’ll find it all in Rockport, Texas, and friends there’s a tie to the Bartlesville area that I thought you might find interesting this week.
Water Street in Rockport is only a mile long and runs right along the edge of the Gulf of Mexico. The area often floods, but most of the houses are built on stilts and there are few full-time residents. The beauty of the place outweighs the sometimes rough weather that coastal living can bring.
Here, small waterfront lots can bring as much as half a million dollars, and there are few of them available. It is common to have at least a million dollars tied up in a home on this street.
It s the Pitts, Los Osos, Calif.
You probably know me from my syndicated column I’ve been writing for 40 years but that is just part of what I did to make a living. In addition I owned and edited a livestock newspaper, wrote books, ranched, traded cattle, worked ring at auctions of all types all around the country, was the announcer for monthly sales for a major video auction company, restored saddles, did leatherwork and engraving and in my spare time I was a feature writer. I’ve written stories for everything from a large country western magazine which meant I got to interview dozens of country music stars, to writing stories for an Italian magazine about our western lifestyle. I’ve written features for breed magazines, livestock newspapers, have contributed stories and reports to countless book publishers and have written hundreds of feature stories for periodicals of all kinds about the west.