Unenforceable.

This may sound crazy, but it’s absolutely true. I’ve experienced this firsthand. On a recent trip to Phoenix, I pulled off the I-8 to let the dogs out and let the kid get her wiggles out. I’d stopped at this place before; it has some abandoned buildings I like to look at. About ten minutes after I’d stopped, a sheriff’s SUV pulled up and a very nice lady sheriff asked me politely but with some urgency if I could gather my wayward puppies and child and leave immediately.

I asked her why, as I’m pretty familiar with Arizona and the freedom within its borders. She explained that it was too close to sunset for us to be on that particular side of the freeway, as the drug and human traffickers would be out very soon. “They’ll shoot you if they don’t know you,” she said, “Even if you’re just here with you kid and obviously not a threat.”

Needless to say, I gathered everyone, and even though Mr. HG needed some convincing on account of his problems with authority, we got out of there posthaste.

All the way to Phoenix, I was angry. Not at the sheriff, who was overworked, understaffed and underfunded, or the Border Patrol that experiences the same problems, but at these open borders idiots who live north of the 33rd parallel and have had no exposure to the reality of life on the border. Even libtards that live in the border areas have very little understanding of just what their idealism has created. They tend to see border crime and illegal immigration as two separate issues, often blaming the anti-illegal immigration people for the crime, instead of giving credit where credit is so obviously due.

It’s maddening. I can’t let my dogs out to pee south of I-8 in my home state or I risk getting shot by asshole traffickers. Do you understand the gravity of the situation along our southern border? Do you understand that the drug war that has been raging in Mexico for the last several years–the drug war that keeps me from spending time in my favorite Baja town of Rosarito–will move north? It already has. And it will impact the lives of all you open borders, hippie losers at some point. Mexico doesn’t just import your nannies and yard workers; it imports its crime and murder as well.

Giving up and conceding our borders is disgusting and shameful. That’s my home, you open borders, progressive, “compassionate” f*ckers. It doesn’t matter where I live now, Arizona will always be my home and what happens there is extremely important to me. When its borders are overrun and the government refuses to enforce the law–well then, there’s going to be trouble. It hurts to see the little towns that dot the highway becoming nothing but modern day ghost towns, and it makes me very angry.

It’s a slow burn on the border, but it’s getting hotter by the hour. People will either clear out or they’ll take care of themselves. I’m betting on the latter.

[Of course, Steyn mentioned this on Rush before I got a chance to post it. Damn him and his awesomeness.]