I'm seeing on FOX where thousands are crossing the border and the Border Patrol is totally overwhelmed.  This is not immigration.  It's an invasion.  Are these people in your neighborhoods in packs or do they spread out all over the states.  This is beyond my understanding.  

I have a cousin who is a teacher in Southern CA, and she says her school is totally overwhelmed by illegal children, many who don't speak any English. She's the only bilingual teacher in that high school, so she teaches the only class where the kids can learn English. She said class sizes are getting huge and not just at her school. She lives north of San Diego in Vista, so she's not right on the border but close to it. This is the third year in a row she has a student in her class who's personally witnessed the murder of a parent right in front of him or her by a drug cartel member. Her opinion is that she feels really badly for this kids coming over from awful situations, but at the same time the state of California is not equipped to take care of all of them, either.

I'm a teacher in Southern CA, just north of Vista. Closer to Riverside. Not exactly the same situation here as closer to the border but we have about 75% second language learners here at the High School I'm at. I agree, I am not against LEGAL immigration, but this is an invasion 100%. And yea I used to love CA, but I hate it and plan to move when I retire. taxes here are just stupid as with the cost of living. My truck DMV license is 1100 a year here and my property taxes are LESS! 

What's going on now is on a whole different scale; they found a group of 400 near Table Top mountain (south of Maricopa, AZ - near I-8) in the last couple weeks. You won't find it in the news, but it's happening.

Typically, they split up into smaller and smaller groups the further they get into the US. You usually don't see them unless they get off course and lost, or you happen to be near a crossing point.

My boyfriend grew up on a ranch between Maricopa and Gila Bend (Arizona), and their grazing allotments went as far north as Buckeye and south to within a few miles of the Mexican border. The Vekol wash runs north from Mexico to Maricopa, and goes right through the old ranch. It was - and remains - a main corridor for drug runners and illegals. They found people (both alive and dead) pretty regularly, and didn't check fence or cattle without being armed.

We only live a couple miles from where he grew up now, south of Maricopa near Stanfield. In this area, we get a large seasonal group of pickers that come up for farm work every Spring - and they just started arriving in the last week. Most of them are here on work visas, but it's fairly easy for illegals who made it this far to blend in with the pickers until they can move on to another city/state. And then there's the ones who come here on temporary visas and never leave (unless they get caught). Most of the local farmers who've tried some the migrant worker programs will tell you how many take off and disappear within the first few weeks.

Last year the dairy down the road from us got raided by ICE and Border Patrol. They found 160 illegals working for them.

This is interesting and thanks for your responses.  They are definitely here in Kansas but not in the numbers you see.  I was at the grocery store the other day and there was a couple there who were speaking a language I didn't even recognize.  This isn't just Central Americans crossing our border.

My brother lives and ranches in Texas, between Gonzales and Seguin on the Guadalupe river. He has recently seen several what are obviously illegals at different times, walking, paralleling the riverbank. He now carries a handgun and a rifle at all times.

It's definitely getting scary!!!  I read more and more stories from ranchers that dealing with the invasion on their lands.  

I remember in a thread last year a member from the border lost three pet goats and a neighbor lady lost 15 goats.  When I say lost I mean stolen.  Not too hard to figure out what happened to them.