"One Rancher testified that 300 to 1200 people a day come across his ranch vandalizing his property, stealing his vehicles and property, cutting down his fences, and leaving trash. In the last two years he has found 17 dead bodies and two Koran bibles.

Another rancher testified that, daily, drugs are brought across his ranch in a military operation. A point man with a machine gun goes in front, 1/2 mile behind are the guards fully armed, 1/2 mile behind them are the drugs, behind the drugs 1/2 mile are more guards...

...One man told of two illegal’s who came upon his property, one shot in the back and the other in the arm, by the drug runners who had forced them to carry the drugs and then shot them...They listen to gun fire during the night. It is not safe to leave his family alone on the ranch and they can’t leave the ranch for fear of nothing being left when they come back.

The border patrol is not on the border. They have set up 60 miles away with check points that do nothing to stop the invasion. They are not allowed to use force in stopping anyone who is entering. They run around chasing them. If they get their hands on them then they can take them back across the border."

All the Arizona legislation did was give law enforcement the proper tools to enforce EXISTING FEDERAL LAWS.  Sure, it is asking people to endure the trauma of identifying themselves (only if reasonable suspicion / probable cause that a crime has been / being committed). In my home state of Oklahoma,  the simple act of driving your vehicle on the states highways implies that you are willing to  submit to having the police stop you, ask you for your drivers license, and your insurance.  It would be great if Oklahoma also passed similar legislation.  I do not mean harm to the illegal immigrants, I just want them to follow the laws and rules of our land, and enter the country legally, like the countless thousands have before them. If they can't do that, then go home.

The cost of illegal immigration to you and me.
 
A new report is out that shows the costs imposed on Texas taxpayers by illegal aliens. The report was released by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The current estimates show there are 1.5 million illegal aliens in Texas. The costs when broken down comes to a total of $725 a year per taxpaying household to cover the costs of education, health care and incarceration of illegal aliens throughout the state.

The more than 4.7 billion in costs incurred by Texas taxpayers annually result from outlays in the following areas:

Education. Based on estimates of the illegal immigrant population in Texas and documented costs of K-12 schooling, Texans spend more than $4 billion annually on education for illegal immigrant children and for their U.S.-born siblings. About 11.9 percent of the K-12 public school students in Texas are children of illegal aliens.

Health Care. Taxpayer-funded medical outlays for health care provided to the state’s illegal alien population amount to about $520 million a year.

Incarceration. The uncompensated cost of incarcerating illegal aliens in Texas’s state and county prisons amounts to about $150 million a year (not including local jail detention costs or related law enforcement and judicial expenditures or the monetary costs of the crimes that led to their incarceration).

The fiscal costs of illegal immigration do not end with these three major cost areas. The total costs of illegal immigration to the state’s taxpayers would be considerably higher if other cost areas such as special English instruction, welfare programs used by the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens, or welfare benefits for American workers displaced by illegal alien workers were also calculated.

I am sure we are all aware of the hidden costs of illegal immigration.  How many tax paying citizens have died ( remember the golden hour, especially for heart attack and stroke) in the emergency room of a hospital that is flooded with illegals seeking minor treatments.  The the hospital has to absorb the cost of treating those illegals knowing they will never get paid for their services, and yes, some of that cost is passed down to those able to pay.  Eventually though, the hospital may go out of business, as the business model the law forces upon them is not sustainable.  We are all aware of the crime, drugs and corruption that are exported from Mexico with the illegal immigrant.  The solution, close our borders and enforce our laws.