Keeping Track of Legal Cattle and Illegal Illegals

A program here in the United States has been developed by the federal government to keep track of every cow in America, from where it was born to what meat market it finally ended up in, mainly because we need to keep a handle on bad stuff like mad cow disease.

How many cows is that?

According to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, the inventory of all cattle and calves in the United States on July 1, 2003, was 103.9 million head.

So, on any particular date, we have around 100 million cows contentedly munching away in pastures and feedlots around the United States, and we can now keep track of each and every one for 100 percent of its life cycle.

In 2000, The Immigration and Naturalization Service had figured the number of illegal aliens as 6 million. Scholars at Boston's Northeastern University are now suggesting that the actual number might run as high as 13 million.

We can keep track of a 100 million cows, but we just can't keep track of 6 or even 13 million law-breaking illegals?

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