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Finally, someone in government has offered a rational proposal to help solve the nation's chronic illegal immigration problem. Interestingly, the idea has been before us for years.Robert Bonner, Customs and Border Protection commissioner, suggested to members of the House Government Reform Committee last week the Border Patrol begin to train and utilize scores of civilian volunteers, as a cost-saving force multiplier aimed at boosting the pairs of eyes along our porous southwestern border."We need more Border Patrol agents, there's no question about that," Bonner said. But in recognition of the cold, hard fiscal facts, he also knows he's not...

The new message delivery system is far more efficient than the old one and operates at a fraction of the cost. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BROOKSVILLE - The 14-year-old girl vanished from a Bible study group last Wednesday. The only thing left behind was the church's cordless telephone she used to make a call and a backpack filled with her belongings. Racing against time to find a girl they thought was abducted, Hernando County investigators went to CodeRED, a new message delivery system that alerted residents in the area of the girl's disappearance. The system got results. The girl was found early Thursday...