If you are near Iowa you know nothing of the border.
Nothing of the border but more than half of the kids in my kids’ school - which I work at - are Hispanic. School administrators have bragged in newspaper articles about their willingness to help everybody evade the law.
This issue impacts us all. Lawlessness always does. So while I don’t know about the border I do know about some of the impact of immigration policies. I’m willing to hear the arguments about the border. I just haven’t heard Perry’s defense of what he said or his record on enforcing the border. That’s what I’d like to hear; it’s what a lot of us would like to hear because that issue is what’s keeping us from being able to support him, just like it’s keeping us from being able to really support either Gingrich or Romney. We’re sort of left as orphans because we have nobody whose numbers are workable who hears our concerns about this.
You know what made a huge impression on me about the border living down here? I live North of Phoenix and the area around here is what I would describe as a "pristine clean" suburban area. I hardly ever see any garbage or trash lying around or dumped in the streets like I did in SoFlo. It's beautiful.
Driving toward Tombstone from Tucson, we took a hilly highway SE. We started to notice there was garbage strewn around. It was swirling up our windshield and about our vehicle as we drove. We were thinking a garbage truck spilled it's load...out in the middle of nowhere.
They we passed through the hills into a somewhat open area between the hills - a small hidden valley running South to North. There was a wide, brown and beaten trail like a pedestrian highway in the center. It was covered with TRASH going off into the distance in either direction. It dawned on us - It was an illegal crossing area!
It was a nightmare of trash - garbage was all over the place. There were actually cleanup crews attempting to pick up some of the refuse, but it was a few guys with bags and garbage as far as you could see - an impossible situation. I think they were just trying to keep it from getting into the road.
We were in shock. I had never seen a true biohazard of this degree before. I couldn't believe my eyes. Pristine Arizona - trashed by illegal invaders!
Wall? Deploy the troops already...