Enough is enough..................

If ever there was a time for U.S authorities to finally think about closing the southern border with Mexico now would be that time.
Execution style murders, violent home invasions, and a spiraling kidnap rate in Phoenix -- where police reported an average of one abduction a day last year linked to Mexican crime are becoming an everyday affair for residents who live in States that share common border with Mexico.
In southern California, police have investigated cases of Americans abducted by armed groups tied to the Tijuana drug trade. One involved a businesswoman and her teenage daughter snatched in San Diego last year and held to ransom south of the border.

In south Texas, a live hand grenade traced back to a Mexican cartel stash was tossed onto the pool table of a bar frequented by off-duty police officers in January. The pin was left in it and the assailant fled.

This is not a Democrat or a Republican issue, this is about homeland security and keeping our citizens safe.
As a sign of how out of control things have become,The State Department is renewing a travel advisory warning Americans about violence in Mexico, especially along the U.S. border, the U.S.
But there's even more evidence the cartels are operating with near impunity as they wage bloody battle for control of lucrative smuggling routes into the U.S.
Last year ended with a grisly flourish: 12 soldiers were found decapitated with this note: "For every one of us you kill, we'll kill 10.

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The cartel carnage and brutality are escalating so rapidly - and the authorities are so besieged - that some U.S. analysts are warning that Mexico is in danger of collapse, leaving a lawless, failed state right across the southern U.S. border.

A recent Pentagon report warned that if trends continue into the next decade, the U.S. must be on alert for the possible "rapid and sudden collapse" of Mexico.
It is time to shut the border, place national guards on it and to seriously start thinking about that fence that we have been talking about building for so long.