A crew of U.S. Border Patrol agents, sweating under a hot Texas sun, squared off against an array of formidable-looking frontier fences.

They swung axes at posts, used blowtorches to melt steel, tore through sheet metal with crow bars and scaled walls with ladders.

They should screw the fences. They need to make game parks... Where mexican citizen candidates test their skill and ambition through a series of deadly challenges. Like the atari game, Pitfall, only they get citizenship at the end if they win. Oh, and it should be televised.

A fence without offense - Los Angeles Times