[Dane]

I've actually been called a racist by Dane when I wrote about two of my neighbors being raped by an illegal.

IIRC, you didn't say that it was your neighbors who were raped, but a general stereotype that all illegals are violent criminals and I posted a picture of a an african american who was charged in the brutal slayings of 7 people and the white guy from Reno who shot the Judge and murdered his divorced wife to make a point that evil knows no ethnic boundries.

As for you comments about tancredo I agree with you completely, he has poisoned the debate and that is why I support a more level headed person such as Mike Pence, who isn't looking for glory or to sell books. And it is tancredo himself who has also attacked Mike Pence.

My thoughts and prayers to your neighbors and I hope things are going better for them now.

[McGavin999]

No Dane, I most certainly DID say they were my neighbors amd that they were both in their sixties as am I. The illegal was caught when he broke into a 3rd neighbors house but fortunately her son was home on leave from Iraq. He made quick work of the guy. I'm a strong supporter of President Bush, but I've often wondered what would have happened if her son had not been home on leave. How he would have explained to this young soldier that his mother was raped by an illegal alien while he was off liberating a people he doesn't know because the people in charge of THIS country couldn't enforce the laws that would have kept her safe.

I've been spending a lot of time with one of the women because she's not doing well at all. She won't even leave her house now. I sleep with a loaded gun beside my bed. One night a few months back, an illegal tried to break in my back door. I stood in my own kitchen in my bare feet with a gun pointed at his head. He left when he saw me. He was captured by the police two houses down from me. My Mexican-American neighbor is the one who told me he was illegal.

Simple truth is, we are having a problem and I'm sick to death of being accused of being a racist when I try to tell people that we ARE having a problem.

I've lived in Arizona all my life, Mexicans are a part of our heritage, a LOVED part of our heritage, but what is coming across the border now is not the same people who used to come across the border and something had better be done about it.