Law enforcement in some places are quite realistic

about what they can and can't do. And what the clowns in DC won't do.
A couple hundred people crowded into the grade-school gym to hear a chilling message from Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West.

"You farmers, I'm telling you right now, arm yourselves," he said. "As they say the old story is, it's better to be tried by 12 than carried by six. Damn it, I don't want to see six people carrying you."

His warning was prompted by the killing of the Arizona rancher, and the spiraling violence a couple of miles away in Mexico in a region known as the Valley of Juarez. The notorious smuggling territory is being fought over by the Sinaloa and the Juarez cartels.
So you've got realistic lawmen telling people "We can't be there to protect you; you're going to have to be willing to protect yourselves. We'll do what we can, but we can't be everywhere.", contrasted with the idiot politicians playing games:
In recent years, the Department of Homeland Security has put up 44 miles of tall fencing across from the Juarez Valley, and doubled the number of Border Patrol agents. As a result, marijuana seizures in this area have fallen 97 percent in the past four years.
How many years have people been pressuring the clowns in DC to get serious about our borders? And how many times have they been blown off by said clowns playing 'virtual fence' bullshit games?(can't actually DO SOMETHING, it would piss off the illegal alien lobby, y'know) So now? What happens when one of the gangs decides they need to send a message across the border? Attack a town, or police station or sheriff's office in the US? Leave a whole family tortured and dead? Think the clowns in DC will actually DO SOMETHING? Or continue talking and pretending to do something as long as they think they can?