Pentagon considers sending troops to border

Reuters ^ | 05.12.06 | Will Dunham

[MeanWestTexan]

That's because the Mexican troops do the smuggling.

There was an armed confornation --- IN THE UNITES STATES --- near Eagle Pass, Texas between local US Sheriffs and Mexican troops that were escorting a drug-carrying (stolen) Cadillac Escalade.

Poor Deputy Sheriff staring down HMV-mounted .50's with his sidearm.

I want General Pershing Part II.

[stopem]

No cut and run!

Support our troops support the president!!

[MeanWestTexan]

No, it does not. PC relates to domestic. This is international.

Google General Pershing, Ft. Bliss, Texas.

This is not new.

[Disturbin]

"Pentagon considers sending troops to border"

Sounds like a half-assed attempt to silence us crazy right-wingers who want to preserve the sovriegnty of the USA.

Funny but inaccurate quote from Wikipedia:

"The U.S. Border Patrol is too underfinanced and understaffed to effectively fight illegal immigration (with an average of four agents per mile of the border), and the Mexican government, receiving tens of billons of dollars each year in expatriate remittances, stops one step short from actually encouraging emigration."

One step short? Apparently this author has not seen the pamphlets that they distribute down there in Mexico.

[MizSterious]

I'd be curious to hear a legal-eagle's opinion on the PC, but it seems to me that protecting our own borders should certainly be something our troops can do.

[BlueZeus]

This is great news and it's about time!

[paul51]

The amazing part though, is that with that kind of security around, the Mexicans manage to smuggle drugs and people through the border like it was a sieve.

They are not there to stop it. They are there to regulate and collect their take

[paul51]

"The U.S. and Mexican governments continue to work together to control the border and collaborate on these important efforts," said U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. J.D. Gordon, a Pentagon spokesman. "This cooperation includes limited U.S. assistance with training, equipping and funding Mexico security forces so that they can better meet our shared challenges in protecting the border," he said.

Was he able to say this with a straight face?

[SevenMinusOne]

It is laughable to watch some (a small minority) on the right now complain about this...."too little to late" "should have done it sooner"..."cry, cry, cray".

Yeah, I guess with that type logic, we shouldn't lower spending either "cause it just being done for the wrong reason", "should have done it sooner"....and we shouldn't cut taxes because "they're only doing it to make tax-cutter voters happy" "and it should have been done sooner".

My God are a minority on the right a bunch of whiny cry babies like I didn't imagine existed within our party. Thank God we have real men out fighting in this WOT and not these bunch of doom and gloomers who only know how to cry and whine that the end is near and NEVER enough is being done.

You people (and it is clear who you are) are pathetic.

[Tarpon]

I meant the border troops ... sorry it wasn't more clear, bad joke, my bad.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Why not simply use military assets to find people and vehicles heading for the border from Mexico that aren't headed for manned border crossings. If the military thinks those people and vehicles constitute a threat to the security of the United States, that is, an invasion, they simply smoke them just inside the United States.

[ArrogantBustard]

Guys with M-16s can be bribed.

[Max in Utah]

The amazing part though, is that with that kind of security around, the Mexicans manage to smuggle drugs and people through the border like it was a sieve.

Money has the power to make smugglers invisible. This is a little-known but amazing fact.

[mikeybaby]

"Always keep enough Gold to bribe the border gaurds".
Old saying.

[ncountylee]

"The U.S. and Mexican governments continue to work together to control the border and collaborate on these important efforts," said U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. J.D. Gordon

Aid to the invader?

[lesser_satan]

An excellent point.

[HardStarboard]

>>>"This cooperation includes limited U.S. assistance with training, equipping and funding Mexico security forces so that they can better meet our shared challenges in protecting the border," he said.<<<

Net net: We ship them money and guns, they send us Jose, Maria and the kids.

[NEMDF]

I guess this is a good thing, to have military presence in border patrol. I was also shocked on my way home yesterday to hear a radio ad recruiting people to be border patrol agents. Shocked... I wonder if they will be able to find Americans to do the job or will have to resort to hiring those who do the work Americans will not do.

[NEMDF]

I guess this is a good thing, to have military presence in border patrol. I was also shocked on my way home yesterday to hear a radio ad recruiting people to be border patrol agents. Shocked... I wonder if they will be able to find Americans to do the job or will have to resort to hiring those who do the work Americans will not do.

[NEMDF]

I guess this is a good thing, to have military presence in border patrol. I was also shocked on my way home yesterday to hear a radio ad recruiting people to be border patrol agents. Shocked... I wonder if they will be able to find Americans to do the job or will have to resort to hiring those who do the work Americans will not do.