▪ Good Fences Make Bad Borders?

The Honolulu Star-Bulletin reports an interesting AP story from Washington state, "A good fence makes ... trouble," about property owners whose fence on their own property has been threatened by an obscure federal agency: 

Herbert and Shirley-Ann Leu were thinking landscaping, not politics, when they built an 85-foot-long concrete wall in their back yard.

But their yard happens to run along the U.S.-Canadian border -- a situation that has put the Leus in the middle of a property rights battle, led the Bush administration to fire its own handpicked border caretaker and given rise to a legal dispute over the extent of presidential authority.

Full story.  The property owners are being represented by my Pacific Legal Foundation colleagues, whose take on the case is posted here.