Illegal Aliens -- Messy Order at the Border

I'm not 100% sure the immediate outcome of tight security at our southern border will be "the end of illegal aliens" as some suggest. Things have gone so far downhill now, it could be that some stubborn border jumpers, who by now may feel ENTITLED to break our laws and sneak in and out of our country, would start arming themselves and skirmishing with Americans along the border, perhaps even ambushing peaceful residents. Wouldn't THAT be an interesting development...?

Is vigilante justice still justice? Yes. It is imperfect justice, but it can, in the defense of good Americans, be vastly better than no justice at all. Not always, not even frequently, but at least on rare occasions.

In a case when citizens, like the Minutemen, are defending both themselves AND the law of the land, I wouldn't be too quick to call them vigilantes anyhow. "Vigilante" is a word carefully chosen by opponents of the Minutemen to attempt to characterize concerned citizens in a negative way. They could have simply called these people volunteers, but they chose not to. They also should be calling the Mexicans in question "illegal aliens" rather than "immigrants," but they choose not to. Apparently there's too much law on the books already covering illegal aliens for their comfort.

And that's the point -- the complainers are politically opposed to enforcement of our law, as recent protests prove. Most of them seem to prefer that we look the other way and ignore the law, but that way lies madness. (I'm guessing these abetters of crime think they are championing "progressive reform" -- sound familiar?) A few of the critics are anarchist crackpots, in favor of cancelling the US-Mexican border altogether, if you can believe that.

But of course Vicente Fox and his illegal aliens are a secondary priority now, and the push to relax the borders couldn't come at a worse time. If we don't sew up our borders with Mexico and Canada, I don't think there's ANY reasonable doubt that it's only a matter of time until terrorists begin using those gaping holes to ship in tools of mass destruction.