Guard Not to Patrol Border

US Pres. Bush to address nation tonight on illegal immigrants at 8:00 Pm.

National Guard troops tapped for duty on the border with Mexico will not chase down illegal immigrants but instead will play behind-the-scenes roles in support of border guards, officials said Monday. Among the tasks they are likely to perform over the coming year: training federal Border Patrol guards, building barriers near the border, improving roadways, providing support for aerial and ground surveillance, analyzing and sharing intelligence, and providing communications systems and transportation, the officials said.

Mexico said Tuesday that it would file lawsuits in U.S. courts if National Guard troops on the border become directly involved in detaining migrants. Mexican border officials also said they worried that sending troops to heavily trafficked regions would push illegal migrants into more perilous areas of the U.S.-Mexican border to avoid detection.

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Shame... an M16 pointed at the face of an illegal immigrant would likely more than prove as a way of saying "GET BACK OVER THERE, YOU PUNK!"

Ah, let's hope they can have more control over the situation eventually... this is getting ridiculous.

So much for it going quietly away. Now the question is. How many become legal citizens. And how much will this tax our already burden down system.

The Senate endorsed a chance at citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants Wednesday but also voted to build 370 miles of triple-layered fencing along the Mexican border in increasingly emotional debate over election-year immigration legislation. Taken together, the votes gave fresh momentum to legislation that closely follows President Bush's call for a major overhaul of the nation's troubled immigration system.

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Yeah, it's getting ridiculous.

Maybe they just need some chili nachos or something.

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The gov't shouldn't have trouble finding workers to build the fence or paint it . [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Yeah really.... [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

What i don't understand. Susposedly 11 million here illegally. Why that many. Have we not been deporting any over the years. If not i can understand why our border patrol is having problems. What good does it do them to stop them. 11 million people didn't just show up over night.

I know this is a big deal. Due to what it does to our country economically and to our system overall.
But i have to wonder if this isn't a concern, brought to the forefront, to take minds off Iraq.
It is a problem. But we have a bunch of them right now.
Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, just to name a few.

Lack of learedship? [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] But if the rich want cheap labor? [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beer1.gif[/img] But if someone won't work for minium wage, how can you claim to have created jobs? More profit without the SS and medicare match, makes an illegal much, much cheaper.

Well....happy hunting boys and girls. And do you think promising to shore up our social services net is a little odd for the pissident? He reminds me of our cat- he would slink up to the table whispering, "You do not see the cat." [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]