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Thanks for the ping. Even though I moved to Idaho, I still have a dog in this hunt. My elderly parents and my 19 year old son still live in Chula Vista. They hear gun shots on a fairly regular basis. I paid my parents to stay in the "spare" bedroom for 6 months when my company assigned me to a contract in San Diego with no reimbursement for travel expenses. On evenings when I returned "home" early (7 to 9 PM), there were drug deals occurring in cars parked in front of my parent's house. The "lily white" demographics of the neighborhood my parents selected in 1962 is now predominantly "hispanic" with a very high rate of violent and property crime.

I acquired a ham radio license in 1976 while attending graduate school at SDSU. An elderly rancher (WB6DSP) was selling a nice 2-meter rig and was in the hospital nearby SDSU. I purchased the rig from him so he would have the funds necessary to buy an even nicer radio. He mentioned the problem with illegals trespassing on his property at that point in time (near Campo).

In 1979, my company sent me to the home of a fisherman to install a new marine HF SSB radio so his wife could communicate with the boat. She was lamenting all the damage done to their property by illegals. That home was located on a "truck trail" off 94 beyond Dulzura.

The south and east county rural residents have been fighting the illegal problems for over 30 years. Many of the brush fires in that area are started by illegals. Sometimes it is accidental. Sometimes it is with the express intent to do harm to the people who own and live on the property in that area.</p.