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My concern, is who exactly would volunteer for such a thing? As in not get paid, but would drive around armed looking for border crossers?
I question the mind-set of people who would do that on their own time. There's a tendency to blame immigrants in this country, and we're not free of racism either. I think it'd be naive to think that all of these individuals have purely good intentions here. Don't get me wrong, there have to be some people looking to help out the situation genuinely.
What's the worst that could happen? Abuse and murder, and an international incident. Even if it's very successful, illegal immigration cannot be stopped (it can, however, become more dangerous), and stopping it entirely is of questionable value for the types of necessary jobs that migrant workers fill annually. If we think it's such a big concern, we should be funding actual border patrol agents. It should be noted that Al Qaida easily passed through our immigration system legally before 9/11. Canada's border, btw, has a reputation for being extremely easy to cross, anyone know anything about that?
Besides, it's dangerous work. One of the worst serial killers in the past hundred years lived near the border, raping and killing scores of women in the desert. Drug-runners might easily have civilians outgunned. Traffickers might easily have civilians outgunned, or more easily evade them than real agents.
You generally get what you pay for, after all, and we'd be lucky to get by with no problem on this one.
[ 02-22-2005, 03:55 PM: Message edited by: Lucern ]
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