People living along the border are really between a rock and a hard spot.
Illegal immigrants come and go at will; the US government does nothing to stop them. Border patrol puts up a steel fence, and then people come along with welding torches and cut doors in it, and then they have the gall to put their own locks on the doors so that they can charge people to go through.
The border patrol has a virtual fence mentality. They put up some cameras, but as soon as they were up, someone shot them with paint balls, and of course nobody bothered to clean them up.
Virtual fence is hog wash, we need a wall. It worked in Israel, it will work here. Janet Napolitano said "Show me a fifty foot fence, and I will show you a fifty two foot ladder."
To that I say "Minefield."
Rufus