"It is a crisis"

"It is a crisis. And unless the federal government steps up to do things that we know work that aren't that expensive in the overall scheme, we are going to see more and more reaction of the people who are fed up with it." -U.S. Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl speaking to FNC's Greta Van Susteren about the high level of violence and smuggling on the Arizona and southwest U.S. border resulting from illegal drug and human trafficking and the failure by the federal government to protect its border. Aired April 21, 2010.

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[nick10463]

People's militia will fix the problem. 100% all the time. That's what militia is for. Use it.

[Slipknotyk06]

@CrystalHunter1989 - The reason that they can't get a citizen's militia to do it is because it raises issues of constitutionality of arrests. Military men do have the right to do law enforcement duties when it comes to foreign nationalities crossing the border with the intent to commit crimes.

Obama absolutely will not do anything about this. It would go against his longstanding history of pushing immigration reform.

[CrystalHunter1989]

Why can't they just get a citizen's militia together and do it themselves? Don't rely on the feds, they'll call in the favor somewhere down the line!