I have never had concerns about "the border" or about immigration.

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9. I've lived in southern Arizona and in California

for most of my adult life except for a couple of years in Kansas ( adult life - I was born and raised there ) and Colorado.

The only place it was ever an issue was in southern Arizona... and mostly because the migrants would "trash up the desert" with excess clothes, food wrappers, empty water jugs. And, yes, a few of them died there and you would need to get the sheriff and the Border Patrol to come get the body.

The only other issue with the migrants was that they would break into anything that you have on your property that could be used for shelter. Often the coyotes ( the human ones ) would drop them off and tell them "go north" and leave them with no money, no transportation, nothing but a bit of food and water. Walking in Arizona... especially with children, is difficult in the best of conditions... and is often much much worse.

Other than that... very few migrants I have met ever presented anything other than people looking to survive.. they don't WANT to migrate, they are forced to because of their own countries. One couple described to me how they had more than 6 bullet holes going through their house walls because of gang violence in northern Mexico. Other 27 year old woman I met had to leave Venezuela because she participated in an anti-Maduro protest after the last presidential election and someone identified her in the protest crowd and she claimed she would be arrested if she returned to her home.

I'm sure I met more, but they never admitted to being illegals.