[moehoward]

"They have already taken over small communities here in California......and still noone does anything. We have towns here that noone will go to after dark. You could be shot driving down the street, about 5 different latino gangs are there. This is not just a border issue."

We just returned from a road trip that took us from Seattle, down to Bakersfield Ca, through Vegas, down to Az, and back.

Many of us stay up on the immigration topic here on FR, but seeing the effects of this invasion first hand is devastating.

[sheana]

Yeah you have to see it to believe it. We live in Bakersfield. Just had some relatives visiting from back east, they couldn't believe it. In East Bakersfield there are parts that look just like Mexico. Graffitti everywhere, billboards in spanish, every business is mexican. Lamont (one of our small communities) is 97% latino. Hubby used to work out there. The sheriffs and firefighters joke that they work in Lamont.....where murder is still a misdemeanor.
We are looking to get out.....and soon.

[hershey]

Meanwhile, on Fox this am, the news that a Mexican TV station (Nuevo Laredo), will stop covering the horrors of Mexican drug smuggling because their top investigative reporter was shot dead.