First of all....
Why on EARTH do middle americans & rednecks feel the need to clutch their 9mm in order to feel 'free'?
Maybe it's that whole "ability to defend ourselves" thing. Not all of us can afford body guards, after all, and if you think your government can defend you, then a) you need to stay away from the crack-mart, because they're obviously incapable of it, b) the vast majority of people murdered in the 20th century were killed by their own government, and c) (correlating with B), what do you do when it's the government coming to harm you? (Never happens? Tell that to Randy Weaver.) Or when the government simply doesn't care? (which is why in the early days of the 20th century some of the NRA's first chapters were among black folks; the government didn't care one way or the other if they were getting lynched, so they needed the means to protect themselves.) Besides that, we don't like 9-mms--they're city-guns. Gimme a .44 or a shotgun any day.

And on to the topic:

I know several immigrants. One of them I worked with had to spend a year seperated from her family before they could get the legalities taken care of so they could move here legally. It's not unusual to suffer such hardship, and not unusual to consider it worth the effort to become a part of the greatest nation in the world.

Every single illegal immigrant is a slap in the face to this woman, and to every person born in a different country who went through the time, the trouble, and sometimes the emotional pain to become an American citizen.

Just why are we supposed to respect someone whose very first act on American soil was to break the law?

Moreover, Sasquatch is entirely correct. While there are indeed terrorists who were born and raised right here in the USA, the vast majority (including all of the Sept. 11 hijackers) come in from somewhere else. To say that policing our borders is not a necessary part of protecting us from terrorists simply flies in the face of reality.

The Minuteman project is an excellent idea. I hope the ACLU doesn't manage to intimidate them from their cause (they're already filing lawsuits), and that it not only continues but spreads to other states. I also hope that we start cutting aid to Mexico until they stop encouraging and aiding their citizens to come and commit crimes in America.