I would be very surprised if the Tea Party gets involved with the border issues. Plain and simple, no one cares. The reason politicians have been getting away with not securing our borders is because most people just don’t care. Even here on FR, the threads about the border issues, even the posts that explain how border issues effect the rest of the country- get very little interest. Check the border threads- very few posts, it seems to me only those of us that live on the border care what happens here.
I think it is the same old story- money talks and illegals provide cheap labor. Some are willing to sell out this country for cheap labor. Illegals are not cheap labor when you add on the cost to all the taxpayers for the medical care and other social programs illegals take advantage of. Illegal labor is not cheap when you count the cost of money and lives lost to illegals and drugs coming from South of the border. Supporting illegals in jails and prisons across the country is not cheap either. Truth is most cannot see the border issues beyond cheap labor and sympathy for the illegals.
Another thing people don’t realize is that every casino that goes in, illegals follow and crime hits the cieling. We have that problem in our area. Car theft and home break ins sky rocketed.