[Twoller]

I wouldn't be so sure that the authorities would react to organized civil confrontation by illegals, Mexicans or whatever.

Take the case of Kosovo, the southern cradle of the Serbian people. Albanians kept flooding into Kosovo and took over the area and staged terrorist war on the Serbs. The Serbs reacted and their victories over the terrorist Kosovo nationalists were all considered to be acts of genocide or "ethnic cleansing". Many Serbs have been brought up before the Hague Tribunal, The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and found guilty on the thinnest of evidence. Many have died in captivity. These same authorities have the backing of the US and NATO.

I can imagine that US citizens might get the same treatment, even if they had the support of the military and from authorities within the country too.

But Serbs never had the civil rights that many citizens do, and citizens could act and organize to protect themselves and there would be little that the US government could legally do to prevent them. Illegals could be in for a nasty suprise if they decided to get too aggressive.

And also, we are thinking mostly of illegals from South and Central America. It is easy to imagine that much of the violence would extend most naturally from organized crime from these areas. But there are also illegals from other countries who would suffer exposure and involvement. It would be another example of how Mexicans in the US think immigrations is all about them and nobody else. This kind of short sighted thinking is a huge disadvantage.