This is a really good book about the US/Mexican Border seen through the eyes of a now retired Federal Agent Lee Morgan II , A Vietnam Vet who spent 31 years on the border in law enforcement with the Deptments of Justice, Treasury, and Home Land Security.
Now here is a guy who still lives near the border and his take on it though I do not want to give the book away is: you can have a fence and it is not going to stop the Mexicans from coming here as they have for ever since there was a US/Mex border. He said they will Go over it, Go under it, Go around it, or go through it. Now a lot of you guys are not going to agree with this but he said the best way to solve the problem is to put money into Mexico so these folks have jobs there so they do not have to come here. He said we put so damn much money in other parts of the world this would make more sense and Mexico does have a lot of oil too. I am only half through the book but he did mention this in the last chapter I read. He also said we have a heck of a lot of crooked law men on both sides of the border mostly due to the lure of crooked drug money. Just after reading half the book it does open ones eyes to the US/ Mex border problem besides the illegal alien aspect. The US has spent lots of cash giving it to Mexico for Drug Enforcement (Clinton gave them a bunch ) and most of the border Mexican Cops are as crooked as a dogs hind leg and running drugs. Bottom line is you guys can blame Bush all you want on the immigration issue but there is a heck of a lot more to it than that and has been for a long time and it is not going to stop unless Mexico gets a better standard of living. Get and read the book it is a interesting book. Long too over 500 pages.