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I'm not being sarcastic..and haven't decided on whether this is a good idea or not. Please tell me the difference between patrolling our borders and defending our borders. Can they both mean the same thing? (The national guard perhaps?)

IMO having troops on the border is fraught with problems..but using their technology and manpower could be worked into effective border control.

The big deal about the statement is a switch in attitude.

It has always been said in border areas if the man at the top(president) publicly stated it was time to close the borders, then they would be much easier close. All of upper INS management would get the message and give the Patrol Agents more freedom and resources to do their job instead of tying their hands behind their backs and blindfolding them. Immnigration judges will turn on a dime and quit releasing aliens without bond. Voluntary returning aliens without deportation will change to formally deportating them instead and less turnstile aliens.

Once people coming here realize they won't be met with bleeding hearts & open hands, immigration counseling, welfare etc but possibly the military then much incentive will be take away to come here.

Having the aliens put into work camps instead of luxury federal prisons for punishment or instead of immediately being returned to Mexico to try again will send stories back to their homeland with them about how things have changed, and the problem will IMO slow to a trickle and then terrorists will be easier to catch, unable to hide among the thousands of ordinary economically motivated illegals that currently cross our borders.

I'm not being sarcastic..and haven't decided on whether this is a good idea or not. Please tell me the difference between patrolling our borders and defending our borders. Can they both mean the same thing? (The national guard perhaps?)

There is a saying to the effect that the function of the military is to "kill people and break things". I pretty much go along with that.

It is not a police force. It is not a border patrol.

To the extent that it is used in ways other than its primary mission, it is weakened. Diluted.

If we want more border patrol officers, then we should hire them. That is one job. It is not the job of the Army.