This whole thing just really pisses me off to the max.
Anyone else watch Border Wars?
Those guys are out there playing hide and seek with drug runners and illegal aliens under dumb butt Rules of Engagement.
I would like to know what happened to protecting our borders? I do not include sending guys out on foot, or on quads, in small teams over huge areas of desert as "protecting the border". That may have worked like 50 years ago before we had organized cartels shipping drugs here and an influx of illegal aliens.
For all of you "The government created the mess with the War on Drugs" argument, yea, ok, fine. It is what it is. We also have about 12 million illegal aliens in this country. Sending out guys to chase folks around in the dark in small teams is just plain stupid, eventually things like this are going to happen.
If we can send billions upon trillions over to the mideast to protect those folks is there any reason we cannot protect our own border without having guys milling about in a dark desert shooting each other?
I think a large fence with about a three mile wide no man's land would work pretty well in most places? Guard towers located in appropriate vantage points. Sign on the Mexico side that says "U.S. Border, Federal Property. Trespassers Will Be Shot."
Only a few would need to be shot, after that, no one would be interested in trying to cross that 3 miles of no man's land, drug smuggles or illegal aliens. It would actually save lives. Right now, lots of people are dying out in the desert.