“This is a difficult one to fight, calling them ‘criminals’ as many anonymous posters do is a complete loser in the public square involving elections.”
Maybe so in Maryland, it sure as hell isn’t in California.
When you’ve been swamped by the problem for as long as we have you don’t give a rat’s @## about political correctness. You get tired of billboards and radio broadcasts in foreign languages. You get tired of hack politicians treating foreign national lawbreakers as something special that laws don’t apply to.
In fact one of the reasons that Republicans can’t get the base to vote for them out here anymore is because the spineless cowards won’t treat border trespassing as a crime.
Maryland AND CA, the GOP cant win in either state and so cant have any say in either state.
Maryland immigration situation is different than CA, different countries of origin.