[Black Agnes]

Illegals are a financial, not security, issue.

Herein lies the rub. Each and every dollar spent on illegals could be spent on making us more secure. Not only that, but all the hospitals in SoCal that are currently overcrowded and closing will make it easier to launch a biological attack. Illegals aren't the bullet that will kill us most likely. They are the parasite that will make it more likely that any particular bullet we do get is worse...much worse than it might have been. Just depends on your particular bullet. Any sort of biological attack will be magnified beyond belief in the overcrowded conditions in the colonias on the border. Any sort of biological attack will be difficult to diagnose if most of the hospitals in a particular area have had to close because their only 'customers' were illegals who didn't pay...YMMV

[HairOfTheDog]

I agree. Non citizens, especially illegals should not be receiving welfare, and we do give them a lot. We should send them home. That ticket I will pay for. But the illegal immigration from Mexico problem is one of an attractive nuisance. As long as there is a rich environment here and a poor one at home they will continue to come. There is no physical barrier to Mexico being a wealthy country. I wish I knew how to fix that. Hungry people will continue to crawl through glass to get here.

As a side note... I don't see biological attacks hitting these colonias first, I think the bad guys have higher ambitions than that.