so how important is getting that mexican vote versus national security? or is mexico some sort of nuclear armed superpower that US is afraid to put its foot down?
a better solution would be to place well camuflaged remote weapon station turrets with autonomous power supply(batteries+solar) and satelite communication, instead of having men spending days in a hot desert while laying in ambush. and place motion detectors/seismic sensors in the sectors of fire, so the operator would be notified of activity. one operator could control several turrets this way. and would definately keep a lot of law enforcement personel from the harms way. they can even monitor the situation right from their stations.

I told my Senator’s rep several weeks ago to put up a few Predators to patrol the border- seems like a no-brainer to me!