“I could give two s**ts about the 1st cav. So they rode horses along the border before world war one, big deal. The purpose of having a fence or troops on the border is to force people to go through authorized entry points, but
most of these amendments would have made US soldiers subservient to Customs, and that the soldiers couldn’t really DO anything without a Border Patrol guy bossing them around. We shouldn’t have soldiers playing Customs officials, searching trucks and airplanes.”
Shows how little you know Private Pyle.
Because the 1st Cav wasn’t formed until AFTER WW1 you dumba**.
The rest of your moronic post isn’t even worth a detailed reply.
Read the laws. By my reading, at least half would have made soldiers answer to the whims of customs officials.
What I meant by that comment is that the history of the 1st Cav has little to do with our current situation along the mexican border. I really doubt we will have horse mounted patrols along the border today. Therefore, the history of the 1st Cav is irrelevant to our discussion.
Do you disagree with any of these points:
-No matter how many troops we have along the border, we will still have legal border crossings
-We should not force our soldiers, 1st Cav included, to answer to the Border Patrol
-Our soldiers are trained to fight wars, not to search trucks or airplanes as they enter the country.
Now, if we conclude these points are accurate, then the only purpose of stationing troops along the border is to force border crossers into controllable points of entry, where Customs officials can deal with them. That is the reasoning behind building a border fence, and should be how we approach stationing troops along the border. From my readings of the amendments, most did not do this. They simply tried to make the US military forces an extended arm of Immigration. I don’t think that is a good idea.