JMO, these people intimidate more people than they help. I have that opinion of the BP too. If they were out there doing their job they wouldn't have to harass American citizens constantly. I have been harasssed by these bullies more than once because I live near the border although they leave me completely alone since some rookie pulled his gun on me. BTW, I'm a 100 lb, blond, American woman who has never been in any trouble with the law.
I don't know what the answer is but vigilantism isn't it.
No it isn't, but that's what you end up with when government officials won't enforce the law.
If these folks are looking for illegals,it sounds like they just wanted a closer look. ;)
I do know what the answer is, and it's the government doing its job and providing for a common defense by securing our borders, instead of trying to do good with all kinds of stupid entitlement programs.
But it'll be cold day in hell before we shut down the borders. Until the government does do its job, I'm all for the vigilantes. At least someone is defending the country.
Obviously, you don't have the same problem as many of our ranchers in the Southwest do. Our family has a ranch near Douglas and continually have to clean up the mess left by illegals entering from Mexico.
Forget about having the Border Patrol doing its job. If they are not getting a rake-off, then they are simply under-manned and incapable of doing the job.
And the local police are reluctant to do anything also. So we have a mess and unless our politicians don't start enforcing the laws, we will become another part of Mexico before 2010.