Michael - I agree with you 100%. You are spot on about all of this. No one should be permitted to whine unless they are willing to be part of the solution and not the problem. From discusssions must come solutions! The President of the U.S. and the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security have one obligation to the U.S. - protect us. They job is not to accept the "victimology" of other countries or cultures. They must protect the country! So how does checking on employers protect the U.S.? Please someone tell me how the recent announcement from Homeland Security and Secretary Clinton protects the U.S.?? How? The question is not difficult. I want my country protected before hand, not after the fact. This is not a civil rights question. We must be a nation of laws, obey the laws, and enforce the laws. If they are unconstitutiona l, they are, but the moral fabric of our institutions and country does not permit legal representatives of the government to instruct others to ignore enforcing the laws - especially related to safety and felonius crimes! Now yes, their are extenuating circumstances that can make a difference in given situations, but most of us recognize what they are when they happen. We just have the capacity for good judgement, but this stuff has to stop.

Lastly, it does not matter about the poor uses of statistical analysis, 1 gun across the border is too many. Get the wall up. Get the moats and fences, and claymore mines installed. How many folks have gotten across the border between North and South Korean in the last 58 years? I rest my case. And their is still traffic that goes back and forth without contraband. How many people got across the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain when they were there? People did it for freedom, but not for money!

Put troops/guard on the border and capture these people. GPS and camera's will verify where they are captured. Then will see this administration say it isn't serious. Living 70 miles north of the border I am becoming more and more concerned. We see many gang members in the malls and parks sporting their gang tatoo's. Soon it will be right here in our neighborhoods!!

WAKE UP AMERICA!!

THIS administration does NOT care to do anything worthwhile about the border to the south. Unless it is to restrict law abiding citizens the right to own certain firearms. Using the excuse that most of the guns are coming from our side of the border. Never mind that the Mexican government uses the same types of weapons probably bought from us and then stolen south of the border. It is a sideshow to his agenda to redistribute wealth and get in his universal health care. He wants to fundamentally change the way this country operates. He wants to get rid of free enterprise and capitalism.

We appreciate so much your search for truth. Though may not agree with some of your conclusions it is rewarding to know you are reporting things as you see fit without the filter of opinionated bipartisonship.

Being from the Phoenix area we are so blessed to have our Sheriff Joe trying valiantly to enforce our laws regarding illegals draining our system. We see Americans waiting in line for health care while Mexicans, since they are always in line, get tended to first...and of course it is free. They chat of having more babies and how much they get every month as we sit and listen afraid we won't be able to pay the bill we are incurring. This is personal experience we're talking here. Now....we have Mexicans and druglords crossing our borders freely and we have people who are trying to protect us from these murderous, mostly drug related incursions jailed when they do their job?

Say what you will, Michael and report what is happening. Perhaps you can gain some insight as to how we can better this vile border issue. Sadly, I KNOW what is going on presently as our Federal Government blames us and harrasses those who try to protect us (i.e. Joe Arpaio).

Mike, once again, thank you for the great reporting. I actually look unto you as a modern day "Joe Galloway."
Politicians. That's the real problem. For decades the US has had this problem with Mexico but those that we elect to represent us in Washington do NOTHING. This group that just got elected in Nov. 08' actually scares me.
Hey America, wake up and LOOK into the issues and vote the true issues and not your favorite political party's platform that's only a front for power brokerage.
Good luck in Laos Mike.