Hi spiff......
I have lost track of the miles and the numbers. Perhaps you could remind me.
If the Minutemen volunteers were replaced with military or national guard types how many would be required?
I suspect a primary reason the project is not liked is because a volunteer effort while quite effecive is not considered sustainable. To develop an official effort would be very expensive. I would hope the minute men are as dedicated as our Free Republic DC chapter and just keep on keeping on.
The cost sword cuts both ways and I expect you guys have made a dent in the Mexican economy by shutting off the flow. It is impossible to speculate the results of this lost cash flow.
any way......good job.
Not many would be needed. What Minuteman Project proved was that the border intruders will not cross in an area where they fear to cross. The border intruders do not fear being picked up by Border Patrol because all BP does is render first aid, give them a sandwich, and bus them back to the border to try again the same day or the next. It's just a game. Add in the evil, gun-toting vigilantes and suddenly they're afraid to cross and either staying home or finding a way around them.
We need troops down here for a number of reasons. For one, as mentioned above, the border intruders need to fear coming across illegally. Nothing like a bunch of armed soldiers to put the fear into them. Second, we need to relieve an overburdened Border Patrol Agent force by providing proper military support in engineering barricades, setting up and monitoring surveillance equipment, processing and transporting illegal aliens, etc. An image must also be cultivated among those who would potentially cross that the U.S. military is now on the border and that they mean business.