In the "Border State Patrol" short story, I agreed with a lot of things that Ms. Silko had to say about having to deal with border control, mainly because I have heard of some really awful things happening there, and what she said did not seem to surprise me one bit. It's amazing how just looking a certain way seems suspicious to someone else solely because of their personal biases, which I think is totally unfair and inhumane. When she discusses her encounter with border control and the dog, I had a great depiction of this in my mind and I could feel how bad Silko felt as well as the dog, and I find her information very valuable to people who are traveling across the border. I will say though, she made the statement about borders never working, which I am only in partial agreement to. The quote "borders haven't worked, and they won't work, not now, as the indigenous people of the Americas reassert their kinship and solidarity with one another." is something that I understand, because I agree that things will continue to be a problem if the boarders are run the way they are now. But when she mentions how "The great human migration within the Americas cannot be stopped; human beings are natural forces of the earth, just as rivers and winds are natural forces", I have to disagree. I completely understand what Silko is trying to say, but in today's world populations are settled for the most part, and yes people move, but not like rivers and mountains, they move more methodically and permanently. Without borders, how would the president lead our country? how could a governor or any other authoritative position handle their job if they are not given a specific area to control? I think that we need borders, but we need to improve who is controlling them and how they are going about it.