[Poohbah]

Specifically, we could easily spend another $100 billion/year on enforcement. With that, you could add thousands of agents to the INS and Border Patrol.

Uh-huh. So, you're now spending gazillions of dollars AND doing so for extremely intrusive law enforcement not based on probable cause.

And how about posting Guard units along the borders? Why hasn't the military been guarding our borders all along?

Posse Comitatus Act.

[kevao]

Uh-huh. So, you're now spending gazillions of dollars AND doing so for extremely intrusive law enforcement not based on probable cause.

$100 billion a year is hardly gazillions. Last year, the Congress spent $33 billion on pork projects alone. Revisit that obscene Farm Bill of 2002, and you could easily come up with another $70 billion per year.

What is intrusive about law enforcement officials entering a place of business to check whether employees are legal? Government inspectors enter businesses all the time.

Posse Comitatus Act.

Posse Comitatus limits the use of the military for LAW ENFORCEMENT. It is quite in line with the Posse Comitatus Act for the military to patrol our borders and protect them from invasions, in this case an invasion of illegal immigrants.

Or is it your contention that if a hostile military ever attacked our homeland, the invasion would have to be repulsed by the sheriff's department?

[Happy2BMe]

The Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the use of military participation in guarding United States borders?

Does that apply to the Coast Guard?