O.K. Then the U.S. should declare "invasion" to be a felony capital offense...
I'll agree that we need to station massive amounts of federal agents along our southern border, be they Border Patrol or National Guard. I always thought it was ironic that people were objecting to using the National Guard to assist the Border Patrol, they're the "National" "Guard". I'd rather we didn't get to the point of having an iron curtain where people are shot and left to hang in the barb-wire ala East Germany. Granted those were people trying to get out versus in, but the pictures in the newspapers would look the same. This nation was founded by Christians, on Judeo-Christian values, I'm a Christian, and one of the admonitions of God in the Old Testament and Jesus in the New Testament was to help the poor and needy, not shoot them. I'm not going to get into a theological argument with anyone, but just remember: "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy."