[kstewskis]

when is the military going to start protecting our border? When it is too late. I am very distressed about this, we should be in lockdown, I say before iraq we should have been in border lockdown. Such a sad situation this country is in.

We in the desert southwest have been jumping up and down screaming about this for a long, long time...and most vocally over the last year. This situation is beyond sad...our backs will be against the wall, and it's going to get ugly if the borders aren't tightened...soon.

[madfly]

Our government is certainly concerned about Border Security in other parts of the GLOBE.

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE website)

OSCE Report Urges Training for Central Asia Police, Border Services

Washington File

18 October 2002

OSCE Report Urges Training for Central Asia Police, Border Services

(Oct. 17, Vienna: Davidson statement to OSCE Permanent Council) (241)

Douglas Davidson, Deputy Chief of the U.S. Mission to the OSCE,
praised a report prepared by the Special Adviser to the OSCE
Chairman-in-Office on Central Asia, Ambassador Herbert Salber, which
calls for increasing training for police and border services in
Central Asia.

Such training would help the OSCE fight terrorism, organized crime and
trafficking, and "improve the respect for human rights," Davidson
said.

Following are his comments: . . .

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