[Mo1]

I am aware of the problem with illegals ... but you didn't answer my question

[JackelopeBreeder]

In point of fact, the flow of illegals did slow immediately after 9/11 and stayed down for about nine months. Then they started climbing right back to pre-9/11 levels. Anyone can cross this border, not just Mexicans.

Ten years ago, the numbers were a tiny fraction of what they are now. In 1994, only 2,446 were apprehended here in the Naco Corridor. Then the Clintoon administration ran Operation Gate Keeper and Operation Hold the Line and forced the traffic away from San Diego and El Paso towards us.

I guess in the great political scheme of things it makes some sort of sick mathematical sense -- instead of pissing off a couple million urban dwellers, you just dump the problem on the small population out in the boonies and hope the problem is less visible.