[GhostofWCooper]

Of course they don't want any volunteers to assist the BP.
It might slow down the invasion...

[peyton randolph]

should continue to be done by the highly trained, professional law enforcement officials."

When they START doing it, let me know. Until then, Border Patrol has all the effectiveness of the prison camp guards on Hogan's Heroes.

[afnamvet]

No surprise here.

[etcetera]

The Feds don't trust civilians enough to allow them into Fed turf.

[SwinneySwitch]

Oh, the difference a day makes.....24 little hours!

[commonasdirt]

WOW! That did not take them very long at all.

[RoyalsFan]

I'm sure after that border patrol commissioner said that, Bush made some quick phone calls. Heaven forbid that illegal immigration slows down even a trickle.

[Lancelot Jones]

The good news is that all these people are now free to volunteer to patrol the streets of their towns and cities and rid themselves of drug dealers, thieves, pimps, prostitutes, and murderers.

Beauseant!

[Donna Lee Nardo]

And which one of the many good benefits of such a civilian patrol do they NOT want?

I'm flabbergasted.

[usurper]

Looks like Bonner just got the official smack down.

[Black Tooth]

There are currently no plans by the Department of Homeland Security to use civilian volunteers to patrol the border," spokesman Brian J. Roehrkasse said. "That job should continue to be done by the highly trained, professional law enforcement officials."

You've got to question a government that alleges that one needs to be "Highly trained" to stop and apprehend individuals that cross our borders illegally.

They are talking about border patrol, not flying 747s or heart surgery.

[janetgreen]

"That job should continue to be done by the highly trained, professional law enforcement officials."

If that's true, then why aren't there enough of them to do the job? It has become clear that Washington DOES NOT WANT TO DO THE JOB.

[layman]

The federal government is relentless in their pursuit to acquire more and more authority, but they consistently demonstrate their unwillingness and inability to implement the very laws they pass. The time is now for states to assert themselves ... pass and ENFORCE laws important to your states ... let the ACLU lawyers whine and appeal and file briefs until the Supreme Court rules, maybe four years later. Then pass new initiatives, ENFORCE them, and watch the briefcase bandits do their four year dance again. The states must EXERCISE THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. The bloated federal bureaucracy has achieved the inevitable state of inertia, and the federal bureaucracy is the enemy.

[Carry_Okie]

Well, that sea change may have just met the tide.

[CedarDave]

Major Bummer!

Original article here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1447239/posts?page=1

[Logical me]

""There are currently no plans by the Department of Homeland Security to use civilian volunteers to patrol the border," spokesman Brian J. Roehrkasse said. "That job should continue to be done by the highly trained, professional law enforcement officials." " Then why in the hell isn't the Homeland Security doing it? What a pack of a@@holes.

[Amerigomag]

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Robert C. Bonner told The Associated Press that his agency was considering the training of volunteers to create "something akin to a Border Patrol auxiliary.".... In a refutation of that controversial idea, a Homeland Security spokesman issued a statement Thursday backing off Bonner's suggestion.

Is it a possibility that there is a mutiny in the ranks over Bush's demonstarted unwillingness to enforce our boarders?

If there is a mutiny of common sense and patriotism brewing, I hope it surfaces soon before all the good Bush has done in the middle east is washed down the drain by the invading Mexican hordes.

[HiJinx]

"There are currently no plans by the Department of Homeland Security to use civilian volunteers to patrol the border,"

And that, my friends, is the lie of the day. The Department of Homeland Security, through the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, uses civilians to provide border security on a daily basis.

The idiot that made that comment is either ignorant or stupid...or else he thinks we are. Yeah, that's probably more like it.

[Czar]

Translation: the "lets do nothing some more" Washington bureaucrats are still in charge.

Business as usual.

[LNewman]

Two bookmarks, two days. And, I guess, according to Bonner's statement, they're worried about "clericals"?