While George's small band was concerned about all these issues with the exception of the last, their primary concern was that the illegals were Latinos. For the most part that meant they were Catholics. The Latino population was the number one minority in the US. When the illegals became legals, they determined close elections. No politician could ignore either the illegals or the legals, since the legal Latinos often had friends and relatives who were illegals. A prominent social analyst had remarked that WASP politics no longer dominated in the US. Even the President was Latino.

And Catholic. The Christian Soldiers had become the tempered steel of a deadly sword made from the mix of radical Protestants and neo-nazis and annealed by an overall spirit of discontent about where the world was going and who seemed to be in charge. They weren't just anti-Catholic. They were anti-gay, anti-Muslim, anti-black, anti-Chinese, anti-east-European, anti-Japanese -- anti a lot of people they blamed for their failures in life. But they were especially anti-Catholic.

They were organized with member cells in almost every major American city. They were violent and methodical in the extermination of their enemies. Every strike they made had a purpose, though, not like the random terrorism of some of the other groups that made the average citizen always watch over his shoulder.

This night was a case in point. Latinos and Catholics. Their role on the border was to stop as many as possible, permanently.