[William Tell]

Ditto said: "They simply protected their own property from attack, from native-born Americans, not illegals, whose ancestry likely goes back further than yours or mine. "

And much of what I have heard of the "vigilantism" along our southern border consists of private property owners whose property is continually trashed by uninvited migrants traveling through. If such a property owner needs help to protect their property is that not allowed? How does owning property along the border obligate one to tolerate trespassers?

If such migration is truly illegal, then nobody should criticize those who would use the necessary force to stop it. The people who are crossing at these places are no doubt crossing there because, at least to some extent, the law IS being enforced elsewhere along the border.

[Jeff Head]

Very well said.

[Ditto]

You're the guy who brough up the Koreans in South Central.

As to the border farmers, yes, they have the right to protect their property just like the Koreans did. And yes, the Feds should be protecting the borders and I have no problem with efforts to make them do so. But I say no to vigilantes and their cousins the Klan, the Arian Nations and the Skin Heads. They don't have the right to form their own Night Rider outfits and dispense justice as they see fit.