bbotcs: Ron Paul is more of a lightening rod for folks that understand the whole package; personal liberties is just one part.
The immigration fiasco is, of course, engineered through the think tanks. The thrust of the 30 million or so illegal aliens within the jurisdictional borders of this nation is multifold. One of the strategies to to add one million drug addicts to the population to swell the gross CIA revenues, which feeds the MIC (Military Industrial Complex). The systematic lawlessness will accelerate a national and then a world-wide police state.
"When in doubt, empty the clip."