It is a well documented fact that the US border with Mexican is both extremely porous, and dangerous. General Pershing could have attested to this fact nearly a century ago. Sadly in the intervening century little has changed. Instead of Pancho Villa, we have a never ending tide of illegal immigrants, and while many (if not most of them) are benign seeking only better opportunities, others are far from innocent. In fact some are quite dangerous.

In addition to this ever growing flow of illegal immigrants there is a growing amount of crime being committed in the border states of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California. These crimes have been committed by Mexican drug lords and now apparently they are being committed by the Mexican army itself. While the Mexican army is not formally at war with the United States, the corrupt nature of certain Mexican officials, including soldiers does give reason for concern.

Perhaps even more disconcerting is the realization that our political leaders in Washington on both the left and the right display not even the slightest bit on concern for our national security interests, much less the rule of law, both of which are threatened when a sovereign nation refuses to protect its own borders as we have done. Are political leaders appears more concerned with winning elections and scoring political points with various interest groups rather than upholding the Constitution, but then again why should this come as a surprise? Our leaders have been ignoring the very laws they have been swoen to uphold for generations.

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