National Affairs: Trouble Cure

Mexico bounds California for 160 miles. They are miles of trouble—not a mile but has been desecrated by narcotics, aliens, liquor, contraband whatnot.

After these many years, McKenzie Moss, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, ordered estimates to be prepared on the cost of erecting 160 miles of eight-foot wire fence. The idea has the simplicity of genius.

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