Quote:Short story regarding my personal experience.  I was a Deputy Sheriff in Albuquerque, N.M. back in my younger years.  I can remember arresting a guy who was obviously an illegal.  As I was taking him to jail, I said to him that he was going to be deported.  He laughed at me and said that he would be back on the next train coming north.

 

I arrested him again about a week later.  It's that easy for people to cross our borders illegally.

Without questioning your experience, because I don't doubt the veracity of it in the least, how long ago was this? New Mexico has one of the most comically unprotected borders out there (just shy of southwestern Arizona), so while I'd like to hope this was a couple decades in the past, it really wouldn't surprise me if it was within the last ten years. There are some places where a fence--an actual fence, not "vehicle barricades"--could help, and most of New Mexico is part of that area. It's when people start talking about building a fence that runs across jagged mountains and the length of the Rio Grande that I start to shake my head.

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