I'm saying that their lives are certainly not worth any more than ours and that if we'd been enforcing the broder as we should have been a lot more Americans would still be alive today.
In the mid 90's I was broad sided by an illegal north of Atlanta who decided that red lights didn't apply to him.
As I waited for the paramedics and fire crew to arrive to cut me out of my car he had the nerve to ask me in broken english through the window how I had not seen him pulling into the intersection. Mind you it was a T intersection and the part I was travelling on was the top of the T.
He was cited for failure to yield but vanished into thin air following the accident. Never showed up in court, never paid me a dime of restitution, never spent a day in jail.
Ask me which I would have preferred, him being shot at the border or me being t-boned and the subsequent recovery, medical bills, insurance bills etc.
Ask me if I think I deserved to have what happened to me happen for doing nothing other than driving to work on a beautiful fall morning just because he decided he wasn't going to obey our laws.
A good friend lost his 12 year old daughter in a pedestrian crosswalk in a similar manner.
It tends to make one more cynical, especially when the vapid plattitudes about 'family values not stopping at the Rio' start to fly.
Ouch. Who owned the vehicle he was driving?
"...and that if we'd been enforcing the broder as we should have been a lot more Americans would still be alive today."
We could have solved this problem 20 years ago when CA was screaming to the Feds about the cost of education and health. Know what happened? CA was told "bite off, it's YOUR problem".
I remember it distinctly. "Let the "Californicators" deal with the Mexicans, HAHAHAHAHA!", and that was coming mostly from conservatives. They thought it was real fuuny. Well, now the rest of the country has them on their doorstep and their not laughing now. We tried to tell people this wouldn't be confined to CA but everyone else was to busy yucking it up and high fiving each other over CA's "problem".
Americans, conservatives included, only have themselves to blame. This could have been fixed along time ago but their blind jealosy of CA and desire to stick their finger in our eye kept if from being addressed.
That's the real irony.