I am curious about your statement - what exactly is a proper use of the military?
The military has been used on the border before - in my lifetime so it has happened before and the republic did not fall.
I believe a well-defined and protected border is the first line of defense of a nation and with that in mind, patrolling the border would be the first obligation of the military.
Now you may be in agreement with the open border policy - assuming you are not, however, what would you propose doing?
Yes, eliminate the freebies and all the other benefits to the employers - but you and I know that would take years of wrangling before anything was done - if ever. IN the meantime, we are lost.
Now we are sending our military around the world to attack a country that is a threat to us - but we are not closing our own borders so that same country can send any number of people and things in to attack us - just makes no sense to me.
I already anwered that. To kill people and to break things.
You want more border patrol officers, go hire them.