Try living the reality of Laredo area ranchers:
How would YOU feel having to go around armed on your own property for fear of being attacked or shot at by illegal aliens and smugglers?
How would YOU feel if every time your teenaged children left the house, you had to worry if they would return or not? 60 people have been kidnapped in the Laredo area! The Mexican drug cartel kidnaps young girls as prostitutes and kill them when they tire of them.
How would YOU feel having to clean up trash daily left on your property by illegal aliens and smugglers, having your fences torn down and your dogs and livestock killed? Numerous guard dogs have been shot by illegal aliens and smugglers crossing local ranches.
How would YOU feel finding a decomposed body of an illegal alien abandoned by a smuggler on your property?
I would feel that I need to support the candidate that will allow me to keep my guns and that will shut down the border. I would also expect that local authorities step up they efforts as well.
Yes, the border situation is an absolute mess.
I was watching something on TV a few months ago about the people that have ranches along the border. They show how the illegals cut fences and then camp out on the ranchers property. Many of the ranch owners don't care because they use the illegals for cheap labor. My thoughts about this was the same as yours its an all out mess. Many of the border towns want the additional population around because local people and business have come to rely on the illegals to support the local economy to some extent. I really don't think people realize what they are leaving themselves open to in the long run having the illegals around.