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RE: I'm going to ask the question
The problem is that using the military to humanely capture border crossers is prohibitively difficult and therefore way too expensive to be worth it.
From what I have heard of the task, I thought the military was to provide support, not combat. Intelligence, surveillance, etc does not include interception and detention without weapons. Unfortunately, the same crowds that scream that the President is doing too little about illegal immigration across the borders are the same that will complain about military aid to those who have that job. They will scream when more money is spent to hire more. They will complain when it does not work.
The part that does not seem to ever get through is that we have no reasonable route to become a citizen so it makes a group of illegals that are a great foil to wave in the air as a failure. Mo money for fences, no money for more …
RE: I'm going to ask the question by VnutZ
Well, the administration seems to think there is plenty of money for bank bailouts, health care and unemployment extensions. Maybe that’s why they’ve made noise about suing Arizona for making immigration an issue – to add some more dough for those programs. May as well make a slew of new border patrol jobs available to the unemployed …
I’m for border enforcement … but long term deployments of the National Guard isn’t the right answer.