Consider that the Mexicans have declared that they will regain the US Southwest. Everyone is aware of the political movement in Mexico and here in the US to achieve that end. Now for a bit of history lesson.
War can be and is fought on different levels, military, psychological, political and economic. We had an ongoing “cold war” with the Soviet Union for many years in the political, psychological and economic arena. We won by defeating them in the economic arena by causing them to spend themselves into bankruptcy to maintain their military equivalency to ours. Not a battle was fought.
The Mexicans are waging war with masses of their people (unarmed combatants) swarming across our borders to populate our States to the extent of them becoming a majority. In the meantime they are draining the resources (economic warfare), overwhelming the infrastructures (economic warfare), changing culture and language (psychological warfare) and by becoming the majority, will elect even more Mexico friendly and open border proponents to the various legislative bodies (political warfare).
One morning you and I will wake up and see that the Southwest US is MEXICO, if not de jure then de facto.
Maybe that is not an invasion by a hostile power in your book, it is in mine.
If it's just keeping people out of the country who shouldn't be here, then use the duly sworn civilian law enforcement agencies to do the job.
It is very evident that civilian law enforcement is not up to the job. When the border control was called upon to do checks at border crossings and to perform cursory patrols along the border to chase back or apprehend an occasional trespasser they did the job quite well. Now they are overwhelmed even if using the conservative figures published.
It is not a matter of an occasional Mexican sneaking in to get a job or even bringing in his family, it is a concentrated effort orchestrated by Mexican officials to flood our country with their nationals for the express purpose of reclaiming sections of the US. It is happening before our very own eyes yet most everyone is either too blind or naïve to see or too self absorbed to care.
When George W. Bush was sworn to the office of President of the United States, he swore to uphold the Constitution and to protect against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Mr. President, do your duty!
He tells us directly and gleefully that when Americans (meaning mostly nonhispanics) will think it's time to take action, it will be too late.
He and his cohorts have convinced themselves and many in labor union members that Americans are not able to survive without foreign labor. They have all made themselves very much a part of a class struggle.
We know each other through coworkers at one of our businesses, like at retirement parties, office parties, summer barbecues, etc.
We were once invited to this fellow's house for a barbecue. We were the novelty item there, a pair of gringos and known conservatives. I told jokes and generally made myself friendly. Another spouse's coworker told me I was really congenial that night, knowing my propensity to start cursing the liberal agenda and problems with attitudes being generated by liberals and imported from across the borders; multiculturalism, gringo cluelessness, etc.
Most persons at this event were speaking Spanish so I couldn't pick up on much. But what I did pick up on was that in Hispanic culture here, there is a clear agenda towards grabbing political power. Now this is not any different than other foreign immigrant cultures; Irish, Polish, Italians, etc. What is different in this group is their knowledge and ability to capitalize on smuggling a large population across the US border. Other immigrant groups could not do that, but Hispanics can, and they are. That is the problem in a nutshell.
One other thing, there are more than 50,000 Russian/Ukrainian immigrants in our county and the Hispanic agenda is very worried about them.