People like to say there are two sides to every story. Actually there are usually several sides to every story. When it comes to our new immigration enforcement law there are many aspects to be looked at. If someone were to actually READ the law they would see that it is pretty much formalizing the status quo. For purely political reasons the federal government refuses to address it. Our own idiot senator McCain joined forces with Ted Kennedy and gave amnesty to about 3 million illegals a few years ago. He was promised that border security would be enforced and their comprehensive immigration plan would take care of the problem. Of course, he was snookered, the border remained as porous as ever. Arizona is being sued by the feds for trying to do what the feds should be doing. If you come down here near the border you will see hundreds, yes hundreds, of really neat border patrol vehicles zooming up and down the highway. At the checkpoints, located about 30 miles North of the border you will see a dozen or so agents shooting the breeze while one agent checks the traffic coming through. If you go down to the actual border it's pretty hard to find a agent. They have cool 4-runners, horses, night-scopes, helicopters and all these 4wd vehicles. The BP lot in Sonoita, Nogales, Douglas and probably all the others is full of vehicles. They zoom back and forth to Tucson now and then but they should be on the border.
If u go to the Huachuca mts on any given day you can find trails with unbelievable amounts of trash left behind by the illegals. They catch a ride to all points North and join up with their buddies, get a job and fade into the woodwork. A high percentage bring drugs. belong to MS13 and other very bad gangs, commit a disroportinate amount of sex crimes including pedophelia. They depress wages doing jobs that Americans won't do. That's a fallacy. I've worked the fields and would do it again if it meant the only way to feed my family. All but the most useless legal citizens would do the same. Using standard military operating procedures I could use their resources and seal the border in six months, so could any NCO worth his salt. For whatever reason, they don't want to close the border and that's not a good thing.