South Texas Chisme on that border patrol case in El Paso. Now, Republicans in Congress want to get involved in that case. What is this, Terry Schiavo time all over again? It strikes me as pretty peculiar that the branch that makes the law also wishes it could be the judicial branch as well.

When T.R. Fehrenbach wrote the following in his recent San Antonio Express News column, I detected a certain wistfulness.

Now, of course, the proposed border fence would be very effective if covered by machine guns. After a few hundred would-be immigrants were killed