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Instead of pushing for comprehensive reform, they will focus on smaller proposals that could have more bipartisan support.

Friend of murdered rancher discusses Ariz. immigration law and border security

As a Southern Arizona Mexican-American, I’m sick of politicians calling for boycotts and intruders demanding that my tax dollars pay for their freebies. It’s all about votes and money — not human compassion, as they would have you believe!

Will the National Guard be stationed right on the line, with bullets in their guns and the authority to defend themselves? Almost certainly not. The border is a “combat zone,” says T.J. Bonner, head of the Border patrol agents’ union, too dangerous even for Border Patrol.

Neither President Obama nor the president of Mexico has a legitimate objection to Arizona’s attempt to control illegal immigration. Last year, as Abby Wisse Schachter put it, “the Border Patrol apprehended 241,453 people and confiscated a record 1.3 million pounds of marijuana — in the Tucson, Ariz., sector alone. Nearly a fifth of all those apprehended already had a U.S. criminal record.”

Jack Cafferty is disgusted at Mexican President’s standing ovation in congress.

President Calderon went on to criticize a new law in the border state of Arizona that requires police to question anyone they believe may be in the country illegally. That law was sparked, in part, by an outbreak of violence along the border.

They know. The answer is there is no goal to seal the border from the influx of anything.

Two decades ago, dusty little McAllen started to morph into a palm-fringed boomtown. Now, drug-gang violence, until recently confined to Ciudad Juarez and other cities far to the west, has spread startlingly close.

Sen. John McCain tells Newsmax that drug cartels and human traffickers have taken over Mexico and pose a direct threat to the security of the United States. -video