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An immigration reform activist thinks the continued rampant violence in Mexico should serve as a stern warning to Americans that it's essential for the U.S. government to shut down the border. The U.W. State Department recently told American diplomats in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey to remove their children from the area due to growing threats of kidnappings and because of a shoot-out that took place in front of an American school there. Beginning September 10, the Department says the U.S. consulate general in Monterrey will become a "partially unaccompanied post," meaning diplomats and other government personnel stationed there...

The citizens (natural born and legally adopted) of the United States have had their fill of deceitful political volleying over the border issues. We are tired of paying the heavy price for border control, education of illegal's, emergency room and hospital freebies to illegal aliens, and the monstrous costs of fighting drug runners from south of the border. The bottom of our southern border is bleeding heavily. We’ve never had a political party in office care enough to administer the tourniquet of pressure to stop the draining of our dollars nor the guts to apply the anti-law breaking ointment to...