And you're afraid of that.
Yes, terrified. I might be deported back to Guatemala.
Tancredo goes back to his well-deserved obscurity. The anti-illegal push has spent itself as a political force, if it ever was, except on boards like this. No candidate running on a "deport 'em all and mine the border" ticket has fared well and the most "liberal" candidates in that regard polled the best. Sorry, that's reality.
It might be YOUR reality but I don't think it's a reflection of the nation. I have friends who live along the borders with Mexico and their fear as well as rage is palpable. You could cut it with a knife it hangs so thickly in the air. These folks have seen the tremendous ecological destruction done by these illegal peasants who will contribute nothing to our economy and only drain our public services at a rate that can't be sustained. The crimes committed are particularly sickening. Every news story of a family wiped out by a DUI illegal or a young girl gang raped by a group of these animalistic criminals that rage grows and it knows no political ideology.
I know so many Democrats and latinos here lawfully that are enraged by the entire situation. I think there is a backlash coming that will make the anger over Pearl Harbor look like a small, cool, breeze. In fact I think it's already begun. Of course it's possible to send the current population of illegals back across the border on a voluntary basis. How? Crack down on their employers on this side of the border and remove the benefits that draw them here. It's working on a local basis across the country. As I said, that backlash is underway. Once the flow has slowed sufficiently, then build the fences.
That HOGWASH you hear about how a fence won't work is just that: HOGWASH. The (not-so) Reverend Jesse loves to harp about how a 50 foot wall will only lead to a 51 foot ladder is soooooo stupid only a liberal could expect to believe it. The fences should be sunk 20 feet into the ground as well to discourage tunnels.
Take the BERLIN WALL as an example. Once it was fully operational anytime even ONE person made it across, that was international news. We don't even need something as lethal as that. Build two fences each one say 20 feet tall and topped with razor wire. The barriers should be about 50 yards apart and utterly devoid of all vegetation. Have them monitored with sensors and infra red cameras and put the Border Patrol into heavily armed HUMVEES for constant patrols. Instruct them that armed incursions onto US soil by anyone are to be met with the proper levels of force. Back them up with the folks for which the US Constitution specifically designates a duty: THE MILITARY.
A lot of the illegals are being brought in by MS13 or even rogue elements of the Mexican army and all heavily armed. Every Presidential administration has enacted democrat ROE (Rules Of Engagement) that consist of RUN & HIDE. That has to stop. Tell the Mexicans to quit allowing this to happen on their side of the border. When they protest that it just AIN'T SO....drop a bullet riddled body on the front lawn of the Mexican President by way of proof. Armed incursions should be met with military force. Period.
Until these measures can be built or emplaced it is still possible to reduce the influx to a trickle. How? Station battalions of Helicopter gunships along the border in every state using the national guards for that state. Give every property owner on the border a US Military issue radio and teach them how to use it. Everytime they oberserve illegal alien activity they simply get on the radio and call it into the "office." In a matter of moments a QRF (Quick Reaction Force) is "wheels up" with a gunship AND a Blackhawk full of troops to secure the area. Ground forces can follow on later with the appropriate transport for any prisoners.