[madfly]

Homeland Security ping!

[Beck_isright]

Why don't we just give the terrs one of our old nuke warheads instead of just letting them truck it across. It would save time for them and get this over with. The idiots in charge obviously don't care if we get zapped again.

[Marine Inspector]

About 25 Guard troops are assigned to inspections in New Mexico, working at ports of entry on the border with Mexico

Ashcroft should get a new advisor in New Mexico.

This bozo Iglesias does not even know that N.M. only has on PORT OF ENTRY not PORTS OF ENTRY.

I'd bet this guy has never set foot outside of Albuquerque.

[Democratic_Machiavelli]

Being a clerk isn't "military" but soldiers are assigned to that task. I don't see a problem with having the National Guard inspect luggage at the border since they are supposed to be guarding our nation.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Hollis said the change would expand Guard roles in land and air reconnaissance, intelligence analysis, construction of border fences and barricades, and radar surveillance of unofficial border crossings.

If constructing border fences and barricades is what they have in mind for the guard, then maybe that's not so bad. The Army Corps of Engineers can do the job faster, more efficiently, and cheaper than private contractors anyway.

[John O]

National guard. Guard duty.

Seems like a perfect fit to me. Give them the authorization to shoot illegal entrants and it would be perfect.