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I don’t live in the southwest nor do I have small children (they are older,tho I still worry plenty). If I did live in the southwest, I suspect my attitude might be different regarding childsafety.

It seems both New Mexico and Arizona are under siege. Constitutionally, our government should be protecting the borders—everywhere and especially in the southwest. IMHO they had been doing that, we would not have half the problems we face.

Instead of saying to our citizens (especially our children) that they have to go thru naked scans or get the grope down, Perhaps our government could protect our borders by sending these naked screening machines to other countries insisting that foreign nationals from the middle east get screened prior to entering the US—eh that would be too much like profiling...

I don’t live in the southwest nor do I have small children (they are older,tho I still worry plenty). If I did live in the southwest, I suspect my attitude might be different regarding childsafety.

The government hasn't been concerned about securing our borders, even after 9/11.

My governor, Rick Perry, at one point spent millions of taxpayer money on these idiotic webcams rather than actual flesh and blood law encorcement because he didn't want to secure our borders - too many of his donors rely on illegal labor. When there was a recent murder along the border, thanks to it being close to the election, Perry was all over the place talking about securing our border and bitching about Obama.

He was never like this when Bush was in the White House. Hell, back in July or August of this year, he wasn't that upset about border security - there was a teenage Texas girl kidnapped from Texas and taken to Mexico and Rick Perry was nowhere to be found. We started getting close to the election, somebody was murdered and an attractive blond woman was all over the TV crying about Mexican pirates killing her husband and all of the sudden Rick Perry decided to care. After the election, he has went back to not caring.

Our borders are never going to be secure as long as the companies and rich people who benefit from illegal aliens continue to throw money at our politicians.