If you're up in Verrado, you're pretty well immune to the immigration problems.
About three years ago, the Mayor of Phoenix came down to Sierra Vista and met with some of our publishers, because he couldn't understand why the border "wasn't secure"... he never sees illegals up his way four hours north of us.
I took him just south of my area, to the base of the mountains, and told him to count the illegals coming over the border.
He gave up after about an hour and a half when he got to 400 and something. He couldn't believe his eyes.
Border patrol here does a decent job, but they are 20 miles back of the border. By the time the sensors pick them up, the drug mules are already here and may have killed someone.
And bear in mind, I am a die hard liberal. I support gay rights, immigration bills, welfare for folks who need it... this isn't your normal Arizona uber-conservative that wants to seal the border and kill every brown man that looks over the fence.
But I also know that my family is in danger a lot here. Five years ago I fired a shot at an armed illegal in my garage who pulled a knife on me when I discovered him. I happen to have been cleaning my pistol and putting it in the safe when I found him hiding behind a mattress in my garage and the shot went through the mattress and didn't hit him. He gave up fast, but it was still fire a shot or maybe be knifed to death in my own home.