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"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."

At least the ones not also on the *professional* payrolls of the drug and human smuggling cartels.

Military, law enforcement caught in FBI drug trafficking sting
Associated Press
May. 12, 2005 06:15 PM
TUCSON - Pretending to be cocaine traffickers, FBI agents in Arizona snared 16 current and former law enforcement officers and U.S. soldiers who accepted more than $222,000 in bribes to help move the drugs past checkpoints, Justice Department officials said Thursday.
Those charged include a former Immigration and Naturalization Service inspector, a former Army sergeant, a former federal prison guard, seven members of the Arizona Army National Guard, five members of the Arizona Department of Corrections and a Nogales, Ariz., police officer, officials said.
All 16 agreed to plead guilty to being part of a bribery and public corruption conspiracy, said Noel Hillman, a Justice Department official. advertisement

"TUCSON - Pretending to be cocaine traffickers, FBI agents in Arizona snared 16 current and former law enforcement officers and U.S. soldiers who accepted more than $222,000 in bribes to help move the drugs past checkpoints,.."

Very good, Archy!

I wonder how will Homeland Securities respond? hehe

Well, that would certainly explain their penchant for the unusual "highly trained professional law enforcement" line.

Not like anyone said they weren't (highly trained or otherwise)...such that the statement is downright weird. It's almost (maybe already is) the language, that expression, of someone drawing a line. They might just as well have said, "stay away, OR ELSE."

It's militant language, and it bothers me coming from people who we are expected to respect to protect and defend.