Funny, because... no one but the illegal immigrants are pushing their own selves to try and illegally cross our borders and die trying.

I need to buy you and the anarchists some high quality tin foil hats one of these days, do you really believe all these multinational, big "evil" corporations are trying to opress Mexico as a country? As far as I can see they are taking advantage (an unfair advantage...) of cheap illegal labor streaming out of Mexico, where there are few to no jobs available for the average person.

I can agree with you that FTAs like NAFTA/CAFTA are a joke, but ultimately both Mexico and the USA are sovreign nations, and just as how nothing on the north side of the fence is any responsibility or business of Mexicans, so it is that nothing south of the fence is any responsibility or business of Americans.

We are no Caza Migrantes, we are simply citizens wanting to protect our homeland. No Minuteman has ever harmed in any way an illegal immigrant, I in fact helped four cold, dehydrated Mexicans up from under a bridge in the middle of the night (one of them a boy whom I had to lift up around barbed wire) this past April; apparently their Coyote had abandoned them and they were stuck under an Arizona highway near my post. We offered them water and blankets, no one accepted. They were picked up by the Border Patrol and processed out of the country into which they crossed illegally. No harm was done, nor has it ever at our hands, as we are all law-abiding citizens.

We carry arms for the same reason you drive with car insurance, for the same reason the Border Patrol carry weapons. I was shot at in Jacumba by a drug smuggler; had one of my crew or myself actually been hit, do I not have a basic human right to self defense? Does not everyone have this right?

No country can simply sustain such a massive and rapid influx of illegal immigrants, whatever their nationality. Did you know that of all outstanding arrest warrants in Los Angeles county, roughly 80% are for criminals who are also illegally here?

A sovreign nation has the right to control what and who enters it. Were the borders to be truly secured and enforced as per laws already in place, a guest worker program as seen in Europe would actually be feasible, would it not?

As a group we all find drug smugglers and hardcore criminals who cross our borders to be infinitely more damaging and dangerous than someone who crosses simply out of desperation and a search for better working conditions. But the bottom line is they both cross our borders illegally, and without us having any knowledge of who or what is crossing.

For all I know any given person walking up to the fence while I am on watch could be a hardcore multiple homicide murderer, or he could simply be a man looking for a better life but going about it the wrong way - there is no way to know, this is why every country has ports of entry; where a person is checked and verified.

While this may be seen as unfair by otherwise law-abiding citizens simply looking for work, it is every nation's perogative as to the form of legal process used, it is the criminal element and human nature itself that makes this kind of verification and checking absolutely necessary.

We, concerned citizens, are being made out to be racists and violent "Migrant hunters" simply because we carry weapons for self defenese and we assist a Federal agency in performing a necessary, law enforcement activity.

Taking the line of the Anarchists and Communists, there is no reasoning involved that anyone can really argue with or against there. Since day one, the world has never seen a successful Anarchist or Communist culture dominate world society; because it is an ultimately broken idea which leaves no room at all for the prevention of our most damaging disease: human nature, and the sin therein.

La Migra's Helper