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The first problem that I see is that the National Guard has got to be pretty weary of the President finding new and exciting things for them to do. If these guys (and gals) wanted to be in the regular Army or Air Force, they would have joined the regular Army or Air Force. I have yet to hear a National Guard soldier or airman complain about performing a mission for their country, but consider the load that has been put on these folks during the past few years: Iraq, Afghanistan, Louisiana for Hurricane Katrina, the various other disasters that their governors send them to handle, and now the Mexican border. Also consider that law enforcement may be the industry most heavily represented among National Guard troops. Every time their commanders tell them to pack up their troubles in the old kit bag and smile, smile, smile, a police department, sheriff's office, highway patrol or state prison gets its staff reduced. Cops are the first line of defense for homeland security. This initiative, at best, just moves the playing pieces around on the board.

AS I understand it the plan is to deploy the Guard only during their usual 2 week summer drill period.

That makes it a total joke. By the time they travel there, go through orientation, training etc maybe they will have time for 2 days doing something productive.

Just another case of the politicians proposing a fix that doesn't but hopefully will lull the ingnorant voters into thinking the government is addressing the problem.

Deployment of the Guard isn't going to help, given the role they're to be given. Since they won't be used to actually put the arm on people, about all they'll be good for is either doing the rear-echelon stuff or sitting at the border spotting people for the BP to apprehend. The BP already knows where there are lots of people sneaking in, they just don't have the personnel to make the arrests, or detention space to hang on to them. The Guard can report all the movement it wants, but the BP isn't going to be able to respond to most of the things the Guard sees. The President could send 100,000 troops to the border, and if they couldn't detain anyone, it might as well be zero. As T.J. Bonner said, "They're just going to tell us how many we missed."

I agree we should have more border patrol agents and a fence. Americans should respond to the foreigners and do a counter-protest June 3rd.

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