The National Guard will primarily be patrolling rural areas for cartel, gang, and terrorist activity. In previous operations, we have driven them back across the border. They don’t want to get caught.
As for the illegals who are surrending themselves to BP, I think tent cities similar to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s tent prison camps might work as temporary housing until they can be deported. They should go no farther into the U.S. They should not be released with a NTA and allowed to hop on a Greyhound bus to join family elsewhere in the U.S.
Once they realize that their destiny is a tent city with no opportunities to work for pay, create a home, or purchase goods and services, they’ll go home on their own or stop coming here illegally. Provisions and medical care in those tent cities should be minimal. Treat medical emergencies, immunize everyone, and send them home
Sadly all will be handed over to ICE/BP/Feds and will be turned loose.
Good men and women risk their lives on the border everyday with their hands tied by the Feds.
The problem lies in Washington.
Our system IS broken.
I think a lot of the people don’t realize that this is a multifacet problem/operation.
Drugs and the associated actions are a different ballgame than the illegals crossing
and surrendering to the authorities.
The current policy of sending the illegals into the interior of the US isn’t
the solution, imo. They have to be turned around immediately and sent
packing back across the Rio Grande.
Fencing isn’t the end all solution. However proper barriers help force the
action to be more concentrated in certain areas thus making it somewhat easier to
control. Money and lots of it will be needed no matter the approaches selected.