Looks like this is going to be THE hot button issue for candidates this year and in '08.  If it isn't you might want to check out these three articles about gang activity, some of which is blood curdling.

My bet is that if any congress person's wife, daughter, mother or close female relative had been gang-raped they'd most certainly be for slamming shut the border and deporting every last one of them.

However, it appears we're pawns and totally disposable.

Contact your senator or representative all the way up the food chain to Washington.  Make it clear, unemotional, supported by facts and brief so it will get read.  Don't forget spell check to find typos.  No snail mail ... it is warehoused off site due to mail scare a few years back.

 http://www.homeofheroes.com/speakout/index.html

.........."MS-13, also known as Mara Salvatrucha, a highly organized and well-funded Central American gang, is infiltrating at least 33 states across the U.S., according to law-enforcement authorities. The gang is well-known in Los Angeles, Houston, New York and Washington, D.C., for excessive brutality. Any person suspected of cooperating with authorities is hunted down, tortured and killed. Initiation rites include kickings, beatings and gang rapes."................