[muawiyah]

The Senate would table the bill and even if it passed the Democrat majority there, Obama would veto it.

The Democrats want everybody to think it's safe all up and down the border.

They're obviously being bought off by the drug cartels.

[3boysdad]

I was born and raised in El Paso. We lived in a prominent neighborhood on a golf course. One of our neighbors a couple houses down was the Juarez Cheif of Police - you tell me what it means, because I always wondered about it. This was in the early 80's. There also used to be a popular local bumper sticker at this time that read something like, "My other car is being used by the Juarez Police" - because auto theft across the border was rampant.

I really don't think much has changed since I left there 20 years ago. Theft has always been high in El Paso, but brutal murders were virtually unheard of. Juarez always owned that piece of the pie. And unless you're from El Paso - say you just arrived for the first time - one can't differentiate where El Paso stops and Juarez begins. It's all one big city divided by a very narrow sliver of the Rio Grande.

I still travel back there frequently and I've come to the conclusion over the years that El Paso thrives because of the drug cartels. There's no telling who lives there. It's where they come to dump their money and trade. So naturally it's going to stay as "peaceful" as it needs to be in order to maintain the status quo. I often wonder what would happen to this "peace" if we did manage to shut down and secure the borders from Kalifornia to Brownsville.

[cripplecreek]

We had 3 illegals arrested in my michigan county over the last few days. One was an african named Mohammad and the other two were Mexicans. One was pulled over for speeding in his 2012 VW and the other rolled his car at 3 AM drunk.

Illegal number 3 was covered in gang tattoos.