Scripps Howard News Service
WASHINGTON -- About a dozen small, weighty boxes began trickling in to Sen. Mel Martinez's Capitol Hill office a few weeks back. At the time, the senator's staff didn't think much of it.
But with each day, more boxes came.
And then dozens more.
Inside each box the staffers found a red brick, usually with a note or a message: "Build a wall. Secure the border."
By Tuesday morning, Martinez staffers had received more than 200 bricks sent by opponents of plans to overhaul U.S. immigration laws in a way that would give millions of those in the country illegally a pathway to citizenship.
Posted by Richard at May 24, 2006