I stumbled against this at Uncle Warren’s site, and it is a film that I very much want to see:

I am against the border wall, though I have at times been for it. It is a difficult thing for me to process, illegal immigration, and let us all be clear that now-a-days when someone says illegal immigration they are talking about brown skinned people from Mexico, and Central America. Difficult because a person entering the US illegally has broken a law, and is therefore a criminal. Criminals should be punished, we don’t want more criminals here. That being said I don’t feel that this is the proper way to proceed, or think about the situation. Men, women and children are taking incredible risks to get to our country, and in many cases they are being maimed or killed in the attempt. They risk dying of exposure and dehydration crossing the desert, that is how bad the situation is in their home countries, that the risk is worth it.
We in the US may face some hardship by the presence of so many illegal immigrants in our country, maybe they use up our resources and take our jobs. But back at home illegal immigration is causing real suffering, families are at the very least broken apart, and sometimes destroyed forever. Communities and families may benefit from the money being sent back, but there are deep and sad wounds at the absence of so many. So we build a wall, a wall to keep them out, to keep us safe. I doubt that it will work, walls are easily breached when those outside the wall have the desperate incentive to get around them.
The US must have some compassion, we must find a way to allow immigrants to come into our country and work. And then leave if they want to, because I’m sure many would want to. We must also find a way to assist countries that are failing economically, because the US can not take in everyone. Building a wall will not fix the problem.

The Rude Pundit usually says it better than I can. And more rudely.

We on the left used the rhetoric of battle during the Bush administration. But we used it when people were actually being killed and tortured by our nation. There’s a vast qualitative difference to saying you are going to fight against people who lied us into war and saying you are going to take down those who are trying to get health care to poor people.

I expected the wailing and gnashing of teeth, but I admit to being a little taken aback by the openly hostile language being thrown around with so little concern. Some of the things I’ve read have left me thinking that someone will indeed be killed over this, life will be lost, because while it is a dog and pony show to so many of these jackasses there are people out there absorbing their bile.
I grew up conservative, I grew up believing in state’s rights and small government. I went through a very devout neo-Confederate period, not advocating a return to slavery mind you, but as a way to express my desire for more power in the states. Now while there were other factors, it is without a doubt the rise of this fundamental insanity at all costs mentality of the conservatives that did more to push me to a liberal ideology than anything else. I have to imagine there are more people like me, because I just don’t comprehend how people can stand to be even associated with the hypocrisy, hyperbole, and hatred that the right/conservative/republicans are so casually doling out.
I am really afraid that this tactic of inciting fears in people to formulate their political base is going to lead the Republicans down into an abyss of madness that they’re not going to be able to pull out of. I see them painting themselves in a corner, and I wonder when someone is going to get hurt, and I’m afraid that even then it will be too late.