Picture this:

You’re at home one evening and an armed convoy rolls into town. Soldiers arrest you and your family, and everybody else – the whole town. They allow you to pack one suitcase each; load you all into trucks; machine-gun all your livestock and pets; burn your house and contents; and a few days later deposit you on a street-corner in a slum in Mexico City. They inform you that the U.S. Government needs your town for a military base, and that the Border Patrol, Immigration Service, and Coast Guard have been ordered to prevent your return to the States, and by force if you insist.

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