[jackbenimble]

We don´t need to create more bureaucracy. We need to tweak, twist and poke people into doing the job and hire folks that will and fire folks that won't.

In general I am in full agreement and there are large swaths of our government that could be fired with no ill effect. Everybody who doesn't show up for work after a 6" snow storm in DC would be a good start.

But our Borders are ridiculously undermanned and we need to strengthen them. There are about 11,000 Border Patrol Agents guarding 6000 miles of border and about 10,000 of them are on the 2000 miles of Mexican Border. By comparison, there are about 39,000 cops guarding that tiny little postage stamp of land we call New York City.

I think we need at least as many Border Patrol Agents as New York cops.

[Americanexpat]

I am in total agreement. Did not mean to imply we had enogh to do the job only that we don't need to hire another level of management. We more likely ave someone in charge of the Northern and Southern brders, make them do their jobs.