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What for? To take names and make plaster casts of thousands of footprints headed in the wrong direction? What a joke!
Are they going to wear Blue UN helmets too?
Not inspiring if true - Hardly a solution for a massive long-term problem, and much more like window dressing.
the troops have no arrest or detention powers
THEY WOULD ONLY BE STATIONED AT THE BORDER FOR ONE YEAR.
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Everyone that's shocked raise your hand. Politicians are the enemy of America.
"From and after the passage of this act it shall not be lawful to employ any part of the Army of the United States, as a posse comitatus, or otherwise, for the purpose of executing the laws, except in such cases and under such circumstances as such employment of said force may be expressly authorized by the Constitution or by act of Congress; and no money appropriated by this act shall be used to pay any of the expenses incurred in the employment of any troops in violation of this section And any person willfully violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars or imprisonment not exceeding two years or by both such fine and imprisonment."
10 U.S.C. (United States Code) 375
Sec. 375. Restriction on direct participation by military personnel:
"The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to ensure that any activity (including the provision of any equipment or facility or the assignment or detail of any personnel) under this chapter does not include or permit direct participation by a member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps in a search, seizure, arrest, or other similar activity unless participation in such activity by such member is otherwise authorized by law."
In a nutshell, this act bans the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines from participating in arrests, searches, seizure of evidence and other police-type activity on U.S. soil. The Coast Guard and National Guard troops under the control of state governors are excluded from the act.
Letz see now. They do have the right to defend themselves, I guess. They could also be used to build a fence. Concertina wire or razor wire could be used to build a fence from the Pacific to the Gulf. Letz get innovative. Put their artillery impact areas down on the border. How about a new bombing range that Puerto Rico shut down on us. Rifle ranges could be set up there. Some areas near the border would make a good desert training area. Letz make it dangerous for these coyotes to operate there.
They can put all the guards they want on the border that they want but they still need detention facilities and the will to use them. They are sorely lacking the will to detain and deport.
I did not even have to read this to know it was a scam to quiet down the base. The truth of the matter is that the leaders of this country will stop at nothing to keep the borders open and to give illegal aliens amnesty. If they be Republican or Democrat...It makes no difference. They are playing chicken with the American people and they believe that they are going to win. After all- they always do. We are too spineless to vote them all out and replace them with good people who put American interest first. In this day and age that would have to be people who would be labeled kooky and radical by the mainstream media. They would also be people who were not greedy enough in life to aquire the money and resources to be known well enough to ever get elected. So the decline goes on.
It's because they are militry ..
Was afraid of this yesterday when I first read of the plan.
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Reading this, it would almost seem as though if another country is invading, we wouldn't have the authority to protect our own borders after one year. Well, in fact, that's exactly what's happening. We're being invaded by our neighbor to the south. Such a set of rules is ludicrous--and dangerous.
Actually, I suspect there is a way around these limitations. Let's hope they find it, and implement it.
Even the Patriot Act isn't permanent.
Here is what Arnold thinks(From the Drudge Report):
"SCHWARZENEGGER SAYS NATIONAL GUARD ON BORDER 'NOT RIGHT WAY TO GO'
Fri May 12 2006 20:38:01 ET
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has come out against putting National Guard troops on the border, as President Bush will suggest on Monday night in a nationally televised speech.
"There is all kinds of talk about now that should we use the National Guard," Schwarzenegger explains. "I think that the key thing is that we secure our borders. Going the direction of the National Guard, I think is maybe not the right way to go because I think that the Bush administration and the federal government should put up the money to create the kind of protection that the federal government is responsible to provide."
"Not to use our National Guard, soldiers that are coming back from Iraq, for instance, and that have spent a year and a half over there and now they are coming back. I think that we should let them go to work, back to work again."
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