Now that we have stopped the monster wanting to legalize illegal immigration, spit on our laws and all those laws were designed to protect .. the question is how do we start the next steps of stopping the flow and requiring our existing laws be enforced?

It starts with securing the borders, especially the Southern Border, and the issue is if we can't trust our government to do it, then who does it?

We do it.

The President has a $4.4 Billion request in for additional funds to secure the borders ... for fencing and additional border patrol personnel which is fine ... most of this goes to technology and contractors. But does it stop the flow or just waste our money? We will never know one way or the other with certainty.

The Minutemen organization has the right idea. But we need to formalize it, expand it and fund it now while the Congress is hot with federal money.

We need to call it a Wall of Americans. That is the Wall we need. We need a Wall of Americans guarding that border 24/7/365 .. every mile, every day until this problem is resolved. Here's the plan:

40,000 American Citizens ... 20 per mile for the 2000 miles of southern border 6 on a shift with 2 floaters to cover weekends, holidays, vacation and sick leave. Shifts would be rotated and managed so that the 20 person teams are responsible for their mile 24/7/365 except for when they are called in to assist in other areas as may occur from time to time. Pay is $20 an hour plus health insurance for 2000 hours a year with 2 weeks off for vacation. Holidays are paid and sick leave is paid. They will be equipped with team vehicles, radios, cell phones, binoculars, night goggles, rifles and handguns. All will be required to complete an NRA Rifle Course and a standard handgun course consistent with securing a concealed handgun permit. Rifles will be used to fire warning shots and the handguns would be used for self defense.

The job of the Wall of Americans is to ensure no one gets in. If they get in, they pursue lightly to give Border Patrol enough information to pick up the pursuit at which time they return to their post and leave the chase to Border Patrol. They would also keep a record of the incident and follow up to make a report on the outcome. This way the Wall of Americans is both guarding the border and monitoring Border Patrol/DHS/White House at the same time.

We will need about $2 Billion a year to fund the Wall of Americans. Money well spent in my opinion. The simple math is 2000 hours x $20 = $40,000 a year per person x 40,000 guards + 20% benefits (insurance, payroll taxes etc.) = $1,920,000. Start out with around $80 million in vehicles and equipment to be shared by the shifts and possibly some camping gear and trailers for remote areas and we're right at $2 Billion or so to get this started. If people already have their rifles and handguns ... fine .. they can use them and save the cost.

The idea is to guard, to prevent, to stop entry .. not to do battle or engage ... Border Patrol has the greater experience and more expensive training for that including training in all the legal ramifications. The Wall doesn't need that ... they are required to guard to stop and prevent entry so the illegal aliens turn back facing the futility of trying entry and eventually, they will eventually stop coming.

The reason this Wall is so important is to take steps to stop the traffic BEFORE it gets into the United States. We're sick and tired of paying government employees to chase them around, haul them to jail, to court, to hospitals and then home on a deportation order ... our goal needs to add to those tasks the task of preventing entry to begin with.

The Minutemen know how to organize this and take what they've been doing to the next level but with government funding support with authorization to Guard the United States. They will not be trained to administer first aid nor provide water. They will have to wait for Border Patrol. They will not make arrests or take anyone into custody. Only Border Patrol will do that. This Wall is to keep them out ... not bring them in. A totally different concept than Border Patrol whose mission is to deal with them once they are inside the United States.

We need to organize this idea into legislation and get it to Congress now while the iron is hot and while millions of Americans are asking the question: What Now?

This is What Now ... We Will Guard the United States and We Will Pay For It With Our Tax Dollars. It's OUR borders, it's OUR country and it's OUR money. It's not complicated. It's very simple. This Administration has had 6.5 years to do it's job and refused.

Now, Americans will do the job the government won't do.

A letter of notice will be sent to the Mexican Government advising them of the Wall of Americans and what Mexican Citizens or any person in Mexico will face if they try to enter the United States illegally through the Southern Border of the United States.

The message is simple. If you try to cross the Southern Border of the United States you will face .. a Wall of Americans .... who will not be friendly ... who will not be helpful ... or aid you in any manner ... but who instead will be hostile towards you with one mission ... to keep you out of the United States.