Quote:Speaking as someone who spent seven years living near the Mexican border, it's not that simple. If it was, we'd have gone that route already. There's a lot of border to cover, and a lot of it is in terrain that's virtually impossible to patrol. Think mountains. Big, jagged, mountains in the middle of the desert, that are a two-hour hike in and an equally long hike out, and nowhere to safely land a chopper. Putting troops in that situation is taking a huge risk, not so much of coming under cartel fire, but of serious injury. Kevlar armor (which might be more of a liability than a protection during the 115-degree summer days) might stop a bullet, but it won't be of any help if you lose your footing and tumble 20 feet into a ravine.