Twinkie,
I'm so sorry for your family's TOTALLY NEEDLESS loss.
My God -- will it take clubs and pitchforks and rails and boiling tar and feathers (or worse) to get our alleged "leaders" to stop the madness?
Probably.
I realize that not all these folks are criminals; they're probably not much worse than a cross section of humanity. It just seems like we're getting more than our fair share of lawbreakers amongst the decent ones. I'm not advocating being hateful to anyone; but they need to go back and go about it legally. I can't believe it would cost more than $12,000 to do it legally. - I also think Christians need to reach out to the Mexican folks, not all of them are illegal and we don't know who is and who isn't. I saw a Mexican girl in Lowe's the other night and managed a slight smile; she seemed to almost melt, prepared for a cold stare. My son was saying that Islam is recruiting these folks faster than Christians are. If Al Quaida attacks over here, I'd rather have the Mexican immigrants fighting for US.