Unintended consequences

When you search for a quick fix to a problem, you always run the risk of causing unintended harm. Such is the case with the bill President Bush recently signed into law that would fence 700 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. Intended to appease law-and-order conservatives, the bill is causing concern among Texas ranchers who live along the border. They're worried they'll lose farmland to the fence, be cut off from river water needed for irrigation and livestock, or even be fenced off from the rest of their country.