Haha ouch, I got called out.

Yeah, you're right, but I'm just being realistic. I know there's a line between cynicism and realism, but in situations like this it seems like both are one and the same. What I fear is that while in the past the general attitude in the country towards illegal immigration has been to pay lip service to the idea of cracking down on illegals and deporting them, the issue today has changed drastically.

There is now an actual wall going up between two countries, there are more agents and the associated high-tech security on the border, there are more checkpoints further inland than before, there are now immigration agents checking people on Greyhound buses, there are fewer and fewer states giving driver's licenses to illegals, more and more places use e-verify, states are beginning to introduce and pass Arizona-esque laws, and finally the easiest statistic to understand: there are more people being deported now then before.

Take all of those things and then look at the current crop of people elected to national and state legislatures. The US House is strongly republican. Here in Texas, the House has a 2/3rds SUPER MAJORITY & there is a strong republican majority in the Senate (19-12). Who were the people elected? Many of them are far-right, extremist, xenophobic, isolationist tea baggers.

Take all of those things, put them together, and you have something that is worth worrying about.