I know what you’re saying. Back in the early 80s even, illegals *ran* when they saw a border patrolman. Today, they brazenly stand there and shoot our “BLANK-ing Border Patrol.”
WHen did it change? I don’t really know. I know for me, it changed on October 31st, 1994, while living in Yuma, Arizona. Within the first hour of opening my door to trick-or-treaters, I had to close it and make an attempt to back out of my driveway to make an unexpected run to the store for some more candy. I think I went through seven jumbo bags of candy. It was obscene. There were lines at my front door. Young mothers wearing crazy makeup or a mask, pushing infants in strollers, holding out two trick-or-treat bags. I’d ask them, “What are you supposed to be?” The only replies I received were “no ingles,” & “I don no.”
Driving up my street was like driving through a county fair. Where did all these people come from?? Kids and adults were everywhere!
Once I made it to the top of my street, I had my answer - a long line of Mexican busses stood idling. I couldn’t believe it.
That’s when I realized we were dealing with an entitlement culture, using their children to steal from the American system.
That’s when I realized things had changed.
I noticed the change a few years after Jimmuh Carter changed the INS process. He changed the concept. To Jimmuh, being in the country illegally wasn't “illegal” therefore the local police (of one I was a member of at that time) were not permitted to arrest them. This was late in Jimmuh’s presidency, so, the affect took places about the time you noticed it, too.
Back in the day the illegals would run from the police, as they KNEW they would be arrested—on sight.
Not anymore.
The local police can't arrest unless they break a law in their presence.
Controlling illegal alien invasion is easy: Just allow the local police to arrest illegals and soon the word would get out and the numbers of illegals would drop and they would, again, sneak back into the shadows, not insisting their language and oh-so-celebrated culture be worshiped.