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For Fiscal Year 2002, there were 2,811 non-Mexican border crossers apprehended in Cochise County. They came from Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, China (PRC), Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Israel, Jamaica, Morocco, Nicaragua, Peru, Poland, Qatar, Venezuela, Yemen, and Yugoslavia.

I'am trying to imagine how many thousands actually got through......Very scary...

We keep talking about immigration laws and how they need to be enforced, but really, isn't all this Congressman saying is that he wants the laws enforced by the government? I'm sorry, but if it comes down to choosing between the government enforcing the laws and a bunch of guys with guns in trucks, I'll pick the government. As much as it pains me to say it, perhaps the government does have an obligation here. It is national security we're talking about.

The working Border Patrol field agents -- not their management -- consistently claim they only catch about 20%.

Last year the total catch for Cochise County was 156,950. If the BP agents are right, then something well over 600,000 got through, to include about 11,000 non-Mexicans.

At the moment, the going fee to a coyote is $1400 per Mexican; I don't know what it is for other Hispanics, but probably higher. Other nationalities, particularly Asians and Middle Easterners, are getting hit for $30 - $50,000 a head. The coyote business just on this one tiny stretch of the border could potentially be worth a billion dollars a year.

And people wonder why the drug cartels moved in and took over. I get the feeling Grijalva and his ilk are "useful idiots" for the cartels. I wonder what comment he might want to make on the fact that drug traffic adds $350 million per year to the Tucson economy?