[Army_of_One]

Originally Posted by Highwayman

The military should only be used as a temporary band-aid. The regular Border Patrol needs to be expanded with more personal to take over and replace military personal. After the flap about leaking information to the Mexican government a good shake-up housecleaning in supervision is in order.

I don’t agree in sending the Guard, or anyone for that matter, to the border unarmed. There are too many confrontations with drug runners, armed paramilitary groups and Mexican military. If the Guard needs a crash course in knowing their targets give it to them. And yes, I do remember that ugly incident that happened a few years back. Putting thousands of guys in harms way without the means to defend themselves because one guy screwed up isn’t acceptable to me.

I support a wall. It can be brick and mortar, fence, electronic surveillance, manual surveillance, or any combination that works. We have folks in the Border Patrol that can provide better ideas on what is really needed than us armchair generals and the politically correctness whipped congress critters.

We need to crack down on the employers that hire illegals and cut off the social program handouts to reduce the incentive to be here. Improvements in document fraud detection are in order to help with that and it would help with the growing crime of ID theft by our own criminal citizens as well.

It’s not feasible to just go out and round up 12 million illegal folks. But we can arrest and deport whenever one shows up. Anytime there is some run-in with police like a traffic stop, public disturbance or other criminal investigation put them on the next bus south. We’ll never get them all but at least the ones we miss won’t be giving us grief.

They might be armed but will have VERY limited rules of engagement.