[CoffeeSaint]

Wow, that's a lot of rage, people.
Look, I lived in San Diego (Escondido, specifically) for the last four years; I taught in the high schools there. I was maybe thirty miles form the Mexico-U.S. border. There were no Mexican gang wars in the town where I lived -- there were gang wars, and some of the combatants were of Mexican descent, but those young men were almost universally born in the U.S. More importantly, the other side of the fight was white supremmacists, skinheads, pick your term -- I'm going with honkies. Certainly not Mexican. The drug addicts that I saw were of every race, creed, color, etc. And the pregnant teenagers? Same thing.
Yes, there are a lot of Mexican people in the U.S., particularly close to the border. And the VAST majority of them work. Extremely hard. Doing jobs that Americans don't want to do. I know this is a cliched argument, but it isn't any less true: without Mexican migrant labor, the economy of Southern California, especially, but also of much of the Southwestern U.S., would fall apart.
We need Mexicans in this country. They work harder than I ever could -- harder than most of you have, I'll bet. For less wages, which they then spend to improve the lives of their families. I cannot for the life of me see what's wrong with people coming here to work.
Preserve our culture? What culture?
Build a wall and shoot people? What is the matter with you?
WHAT ARE WE PROTECTING?