TOMMY LEE JONES - LEE JONES CRITICISES SENATOR'S BORDER CONTROL POLICY

Veteran actor TOMMY LEE JONES has criticised Texan Senator KAY BAILEY HUTCHINSON's ideas on how to control immigration on the US/Mexico border.

The FUGITIVE star, who lives in San Antonio near the Texas/Mexico border with his Hispanic wife DAWN, is angered by Hutchinson's plans for vigilante groups to guard borders.

He says, "We have a United States senator who has been quoted as saying that our borders are haemorrhaging, a bleeding wound... and wants to introduce a bill that pours millions (of dollars) into federal enforcement of the borders and by golly she wants to give money to the vigilante groups.

"Just like a lot of politicians, (she) feeds on headlines.

"In this case she's making her appeal to rabid paranoia which is dangerous.

"It's a very complicated issue. There are people working in agriculture whose families have been split by the existence of this border and they're willing and able to do jobs in the north that no one else will do.

"They don't deserve to have their culture and their families split in two."