Along the Rio Grande, Scenes of a Tense Border

Tea Party Member
Nelson photographed this woman calling herself Babbi Girl in Hereford, Arizona. "In my opinion," she says, "you can't talk about an amnesty — granting citizenship to the illegal immigrants in the USA — without first sealing the border. I don't think anyone should be rewarded with one of the most valuable things: US citizenship, to people who have broken the law to get it. We should just ENFORCE the laws — take away the welfare, the housing, the jobs — and people will leave.

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