Federally Funded "Border Militia" Proposed

NBC San Antonio ^ | October 5, 2005 | Jim Forsyth

[Jim Robinson]

Sounds like a plan to me. Wonder if the minutemen will go for it?

[TXBSAFH]

Good.

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. Interesting.

[Alien Gunfighter]

Don't we have one of these already? US Border Patrol?

Hey Feds, don't throw more money at the problem. Fix it with what you already have, like the rest of us with finite funds have to.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Slick claimed he put 100,000 new cops on the street. Should have put all of them on our southern border.

[ARCADIA]

Why do we have a National Guard?

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

"Don't we have one of these already?"

Yes we do....and it's apparently dysfunctional.
These congressmen want to add additional dysfunctionality to the border problem, and increase their financial assistance from the federal government at the same time.

The group they want to establish would be severely restricted in what they could say and do about border problems....and that's what these congressmen want.

They haven't done their job, and they don't want anyone else...(Minutemen)... to expose their lack of response to the illegal immigration fiasco......

[HEY4QDEMS]

Let the military do it. They're being paid anyway.

[n230099]

Amazing. One of the only things they are Constitutionally charged with doing and they're still dickering over how to get it done.

[JerseyHighlander]

...the reserve deputies would have to be residents of the county where they would be deputized.

Very strange idea. Why?

Every coyote and illegal immigrant will now presume all residents are BP. This is a very dangerous proposition for the people who join this force.

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

"the reserve deputies would have to be residents of the county where they would be deputized....Very strange idea.
Why?

Good question.
The obvious answer is that not only would it be easier to control anything they may say to the media, but can't you imagine a posse of these dudes comprised of Hispanics with family in Mexico that they'd love to help cross the border?

[JerseyHighlander]

Worse yet, I hadn't even thought it through to that point yet.

Those heavily Blue counties in South Texas are going to end up with competing Sheriffs' posses. (again)

It sounds like a great make-work project though. Get paid by Uncle Sam to put on a uniform and take your government issued 4 wheeler/pickup out into the open areas and drive around for a few hours, all whilst getting paid at a federal employee pay scale. Those counties are going to end up with 0% official unemployment as everyone and their father gets in on this pork.

[stopem]

" the Minutemen, who are out there on their own, and we don't know who they are or what their motives are," Cuellar said.

We do know who the Minutemen are. They are American Patriots trying to protect the U.S.A.!!!

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

"We know who the minute men are. They are American Patriots trying to protect the U.S.A."

Exactly....and by the way they're doing it at their own expense.
If congressman Cuellar wants to push some meaningful legislation, he should introduce a bill to allow all expenses incurred by minutemen to be TAX DEDUCTABLE.

You can expect this to happen when Hell freezes over for the 2nd time........

[DustyMoment]

The Border militia will be a great idea - if we get rid of the Border Patrol. If one service isn't doing the job it is supposed to, why should tax payers have to foot the bill for a redundant agency that (theoretically) will do what the first agency is supposed to do?

This is typical big government, leftist thinking. Why not have two bloated government agencies to do the job that one government agency is supposed to do?

If the Bush administration wants to re-make the Border Patrol into the Border Militia, that's fine. But, if the two agencies are supposed to operate side-by-side, this is a deal-breaker.

[Jim Robinson]

I thought you guys wanted to beef up the border? Here's your chance. The people manning the border have to come from somewhere. Might as well recruit the minutemen as anyone else.

[durasell]

Yes, but are they effective?

[DustyMoment]

Beefing up the border is fine, Jim. Funding another agency to do the job that the Border Patrol is supposed to be doing makes no sense.

When we have to have two agencies doing the job that one agency is supposed to be doing now, something is terribly, terribly wrong with the equation.

[Jim Robinson]

Recruit them into the Border Patrol Agency then. What's the difference?