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My concern in the talk of the military being put on our borders is that we do not have enough for here and for overseas. There is also the minor problem of being against the law.

No one in the government seems to be very concerned about this. Of course, we don't know what may be being considered/done on the QT.

W did not campaign on closing the borders, and he has been consistent on trying to do what he has campaigned and said he would do. I just wish that included getting rid of illegal aliens. I am not opposed to a guest worker program, but I am for getting the illegals out of our schools and our hospitals.

I am concerned about the 'anchor babies' being born here. That may call for a new amendment to our Constitution.

My concern in the talk of the military being put on our borders is that we do not have enough for here and for overseas. There is also the minor problem of being against the law.

Posse Comitatus? It's still on the books.

My concern here is that for many being their most hot button issue, they are not thinking this through. Whether it be Hitlary! or my GOP, this is playing politics with our soldiers. I thought we had enough of that during the Clinton years.

I live in Texas, so I see up close and personal the illegal immigrant problem. I firmly believe that the integrity of our system and the legitimacy of our laws should be guarded and protected at all times. Border Patrol should be bolstered considerably. Two thousand is not enough. Not even close to being enough.

If anything, I'll tapdance butt naked in Times Square with national and international cameras broadcasting in real time to trash the TSA and divert those resources and a lot more into Border Patrol and the Coast Guard.

Our military's hands are full and will be full for the foreseeable future. I am adamantly against using them for political purposes. No matter what, this ploy is pure politics, and that's disgusting.

>>I am concerned about the 'anchor babies' being born here. That may call for a new amendment to our Constitution.<<

+== QUOTE OF THE WEEK ==+

"[The Fourteenth Amendment] will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons."

Senator Jacob Merritt Howard of Michigan
Introducing what would later become the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868

(The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, often wrongly cited as the Constitutional requirement for birthright citizenship, was enacted in order to guarantee recently freed slaves the rights of citizenship. It was never intended, as the quote above (by one of the Amendment's authors) makes clear, to grant birthright citizenship to the offspring of tourists, illegal aliens, and temporary workers.)