[henderson field]

"Are politicians averse to creating a government that works?"
So it would seem.
When all is said and done, the Minutemen were essentially baby-sitters -- and very fine ones at that.
Of course there are going to be some red faces in government over that.

[toomanylaws]

Right on the money.
For every solicitation I get from the Republican party I tell them no more donations until President Bush apologizes for calling the minutemen "vigilantes".

[D Rider]

Historically, vigilante groups emerged in the American western frontier in areas where there was no functioning law enforcement or where the law enforcement that existed had become corrupt or ineffective.

Exactly!!

I've stood under the beam where it is reputed that the Plummer gang was hanged by the neck until dead. ( The plummer gang were road agents preying on miners in 1860's Montana. Henry Plummer was also the US Marshal.) Folklore has it that the number 3-7-77 was the symbol of the vigilantes.

[DumpsterDiver]

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[gubamyster]

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[A CA Guy]

"Just imagine how you'd feel if someone showed up at your place of work and started doing your job. And to add to the insult, they did it better than you and for no pay. You might get pretty irate over something like that."

False statement, the border patrol haven't been permitted to do the job to the best of their ability, it isn't that they can't do the job to a better extent IMO.

[datura]

It's not just the Border Patrol. Their agents are busting their butts trying to do the impossible with nothing.

It's every LEA in this nation's job, yet many refuse to do this work - they refuse to protect our nation. Try to imagine the old USSR during the Cold War, and it was your job to sneak in and raise Hell there. Do you think for one second that if you were to get over the border by just a few miles that you would be safe from then on? Hell no. Fast forward to today. If an illegal makes it over the border, chances are no one will ask anything about where they are from. No pressure to learn English, lots of Epanol speakers never bother.

Those who went through the process to immigrate legally to the US deserve better than to see their sacrifices spit on by the administration and the illegals. It is the illegals who are not going to assimilate - why should they?

I'm deeply disappointed in the administration. No, ashamed would be a better term.

[AZ_Cowboy]

Historically, vigilante groups emerged in the American western frontier in areas where there was no functioning law enforcement or where the law enforcement that existed had become corrupt or ineffective.

Bingo!

Someone's got to fill the vacuum.

See it with your own eyes and believe, folks.