AP source: Guard to seek volunteers for border

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_us_border_troops ^ | 7-01-09 | edcoil

[edcoil]

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is developing plans to seek up to 1,500 National Guard volunteers to step up the military's counter-drug efforts along the Mexican border, senior administration officials said Monday.

[edcoil]

Volunteers at the border to help... wait I heard of an organization like that hated by his party.

[mainepatsfan]

Wouldn’t this be considered “meddling” on the border?

[taxtruth]

Send o and the congress.they get paid via Americans to defend the country.
this is totally nuts.

[magslinger]

Volunteers at the border to help... wait I heard of an organization like that hated by his party.

Yes, but that group wants to stop illegal aliens. Hussein0 wants to stop drugs. Or maybe just cut out the middle man.

[Mister Muggles]

Will they give me a badge and let me walk around with a pink plastic gun...but NO bullets?

[Miss Behave]

Beck and his guest today (can’t remember his name,) were citing the utter ignorance of Obama on this—the crazy reality that the armed Minute Men may be saving the unarmed GUARDS’ bacon...who are not even to question citizenry status. Citizenry defending Military. This is a bad dream, right?

[HiJinx]

From the article: A previous program — Operation Jump Start — used National Guard troops

A program previous to Operation Jump Start — Joint Task Force 6 - used troops from both the Guard and RA in a similar role. The operation was totally federally funded and had some reasonable successes...

[Gay State Conservative]

With Hussein as Community Organizer-In-Chief I wouldn't volunteer in a million years.Doing so would just be begging to be court-martialed for some God-awful abuse of some poor “undocumented worker”.

[max americana]

Volunteers??? Oh you mean ACORN/COI/AMERICORPS/DEMOCRAT volunteers who will block the Border patrol for doing their jobs, right?

[Recovering_Democrat]

[gubamyster]

ping

[SwinneySwitch]

Bumping!

http://www.texasbordervolunteers.org/home.php

[NorwegianViking]

The Guard should never have been removed three years ago. And the article said that they would not be used for “law enforcement”?.....Give us a break....that’s like sending a man into the jungle without a chance of survival. 1,500 is not that many considering the length of our border. Thanks for the link and bumb, SwinneySwitch.

[AH_LiveRight]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282858/posts

They do not want to stop drugs from Venezuela/Honduras. They need “volunteers” to direct traffic. Pretty nifty, huh?

[magslinger]

So I was right about cutting out the middle man? At least he is trying to economize somewhere.