Cheney wasn't talking about the ones that are legal. He was talking about legalizing the illegal ones here.
hannity asked him about using the military to patrol our border.
Cheney said that our military was not properly trained to patrol our border and that it was not part of their mission...
THE MILITARY IS NOT TRAINED TO REPEL FOREIGN INVASIONS???
What the hell IS it trained for, if not that as a bare minimum!?!
I love Dick Cheney... but our border policy is clearly wrong and it is NOT playing well with the american people.
We can have marines die to shut down the Iraq border with Syria, and Iran... but they are incapable of repelling an invasion of illegals, thousands of them, on our own borders?
Somebody's head is screwed on too crooked if they cannot see the utter stupidity in that 'not trained to patrol or secure our borders' quote, unquote, from Dick.
We are in trouble in our own hemisphere... with invading illegal criminals...
We damned well better be able to defend our borders HERE at least as well as we do over there for the muslims who to a great extent do not trust or even hate us.
Bush and Cheney have sold us out to illegal immigration.
Maybe if we passed the patriot act, it would cut down on the illegal invasion from the south...
THE MILITARY IS NOT TRAINED TO REPEL FOREIGN INVASIONS???
Not peacfully, that's why they carry the big guns. Are we ready for firefights along the border? Gunning down mexicans, etc as they cross the border?
"Cheney said that our military was not properly trained to patrol our border and that it was not part of their mission...
"THE MILITARY IS NOT TRAINED TO REPEL FOREIGN INVASIONS???"
No, they're not trained to enforce immigration law...which is exactly what Cheney said.
I support making English the official language of the United States. Furthermore, I support revoking the citizenship any adult who doesn't understand it and throwing them out of the country. C-ya!
I'm sure V.P Cheney remembers Operation Wetback (1953-54).
The border patrol, state police, local police etc.. got them out of the US then.
It is trained to provide humanitarian aid, to bring disaster relief, to interfere in other nations' affairs, to guard Germany from the dreaded Soviet invasion, to serve as cannon fodder when the balloon goes up on Korea, and to guard OTHER nations' borders.
None of these are proper missions for the U.S. military as outlined in the Constitution. Repelling foreign invasion IS the ONLY specified mission, yet they're not doing that. It makes me sick.