Border Death-Trap - Time to Tear Down America's Berlin Wall

These people are CRIMINALS, pure and simple. The second they set foot across the border, they are CRIMINALS. They cut landowers fences,(trespass, destruction of private property), kill livestock (rustling, destruction of private property, theft, malicious mischief) and eat only a small part, maybe 20 lbs. leaving the carcass (up to 1200 lbs.!) to rot in the sun,(cost of one cow about $350.00 for the rancher), break into homes (burglary), threaten landowners (simple assault, assault, aggravated assault), have fired at border guards (attempted capital murder), shot the windows out of border patrol vehicles, (attempted murder, destruction of public property), leave their waste throughout the landowners property that he has to clean up at his cost, (environmental damage),pollute landowners water by disposing of their waste in it (and water is scarce and expensive down there), bring in illegal drugs, and that is just on the border! Remember the wetback who rode the rail system, hopping off to commit murders around the country. One of those murders was about 15 miles from my house! Murdered by an ILLEGAL "immigrant". Didn't he murder about 15 Americans? And now the taxpayers get to support that murderer for the rest of his life! If you don't want criminals stopped that's your decision. I do.

If they were pouring across the border with guns the military would be down there stopping an invasion. Even though they don't, in most cases, have guns, except the drug runners who are WELL ARMED, it is an invasion that is occuring. If they don't respect the immigration laws, they DO NOT respect any other laws. France had immigration laws in 1939, Germany invaded by force of arms. It cost American lives to run Germany out. To repel a foreign invasion MAY take force of arms. Either their governments act to stop the invasion, or we have to.

I used to arrest these people when I was with the PD. They would call and report themselves for a free ride back to Mexico. They would have $1400/$1500 dollars on them. We couldn't confiscate it because we couldn't "prove" it was gotten illegally. They would take a vacation with the family in Mexico for a month or two and be back here again. Work a few months, call themselves in, vacation, and back again. While here they'd live 10-15 in a house, in many cases causing damage to the property because of the number living there. And that was 30 years ago. Now they pour across the border like water down a downspout!

I for one am tired of it.

The other option is we could allow them to overrun us, charge them 50% of any monies they make here illegally (it's illegal if they're here illegally), give them NO benefits (welfare, food stamps, medical aid, etc.). If they decided they wanted citizenship they have to return to their home country and go through the application process from the beginning, LEGALLY.

This issue makes my blood boil, and it was when I responded last about the 11/12 yr. old. I would not fire on a child. However, if it takes force of arms to stop the invasion, I would certainly support it, and if necessary, get involved.

Boonie Rat

MACV SOCOM, PhuBai/Hue '65-'66

What we need is a compassionate solution to the immigration problem that will prevent deaths. The INS and border patrol are not doing the job so we must privatize their functions. We must follow the lead of Chicago's Major Dailey in the 60's. When he wanted the citizens of his city not to be hurt by riots and looting he issued a warning that all looters and rioters would be shot. There was no looting and rioting and not a single person was hurt.

So the solution is to set a bounty of $1,000 on any illegals in the US. Give a month's warning for them to leave and then let private enterprise take care of the problem. After a few shootings, and after seeing lots of citizens with guns on the border ready to shoot, the immigration problem will be solved.

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