Do you think the minute men working to help guard our borders are doing the job of the National Guard?
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No, the National Guard is for time of national emergency not for a permanent job. The borders will always need guarding, that would be more border patrol & more power for the border patrol. Are we willing to pay more tax for more border patrol - I am but what about everone else?
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It really sucks, doesn't it!?!   It infuriates me that these people are able to sneak into our country in the first place. I have seen the videos showing the coyote layup sites (where they meet up with their smugglers).  What a huge mess.  It is a real shame!\n\nI have joined the Minuteman project (National as well as my state chapter). They are at least trying to make a dent in it.  Check out the videos and other information at their website.\n\nI love the new motto "National Citizen Neighborhood Crime Watch - Securing America's Border"
560684
No. It's the present!\n\nThat article was written poorly!  After reading it three times, I still haven't figured out if it's the American police or Mexican police!   Anyways, it doesn't matter regarding your question.  It sounds like one criminal group is fighting another for an illegal smuggling route.  What does the immigration law have to do with that? \n\nBreaking the law is just that!  We are finally trying to enforce some of our immigration laws. Our Southern border is our weakest link in our national security. It's about time we're doing something about it!
840857
I suspect we can't afford the war we are already fighting.  I don't understand what you think he has to protect his people from.  Most of them on the northern border are waiting to wade across the river, and any additional military presence there would sure cut down on the illegal immigration problem.  As poor as Mexico is, I think the reason they don't crack down more on that is because it helps solve a problem for them.  They have fewer poor citizens to support, and those people often cross the border, get jobs and send money back home to family.  It's kind of a win-win for the government.
503813
The men and women of the National guard will be happy to have the help and the men and women of the minutemen will be honored to work with the guard. it is only the politicians that can not play nice together.
491515
Amen Brother!! I hear ya!! But the job and the duty of the United States has always been to protect and help other countries, even if we neglect our own citizens, redundant I know
1033519
No, our job is not done. How can you start helping a country then back out when you're in the middle of doing so? Only a sissy ass liberal would do a thing like that. GOD BLESS USA & GW!
1103406
No ! Keep the Minutemen on the Canadian border. We had seventeen supposed prepetrators in Canada and you only had seven.in Florida and they don't look so guilty right now
1125660
What IS the national guard's job again? As I recall the PRIMARY job, & sole purpose for its creation, is indeed to defend the national borders & internal security of the US. The SECONDARY job is to backup federal troops overseas, and AFTER all that, to respond to natural disasters when local authories are overwhelmed, incapable, or incompetent to do so. And, when they are under the command of a Gov, they DO have law enforcement powers. \n\nSo, not only do I think they should send 6,000 down to build infrastructure & run survellince gear, I think they ought to send 30,000 & give them guns. It's a drop in the bucket. I really don't care so much about the illegals. There's so many here now using services that even if you could seal the border we'd still be bleeding to death. You honestly can't have a wide open border in time of terrorist war though & you have to cut off the drug flow. They should have done this 25 years ago & not pulled troops till border patrol could hard seal the border alone. This is just a political statment though.
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i don't want to have us look like a police state, and we already have a border patrol, so i say beef up the border patrol , or transfer forces from another Branch somehow.  point is, we need our border patrol to do it, but they need the resources.  also, thanks to any border patrol agents reading, and i would love to see some input from you.
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Armed men in Mexican military uniforms have illegally crossed into the United States to provide cover for drug smugglers, and have fired upon U.S. Border Patrol agents on several occasions, a congressional panel was told Tuesday. \n\nBorder Patrol Union President T.J. Bonner detailed three incidents since 2000 in which U.S. agents were chased and fired upon by what he characterized as Mexican soldiers operating inside U.S. borders.  Bonner testified before the House Homeland Security Investigations Subcommittee on Tuesday.  \n\nThe Department of Homeland Security said there have been 231 documented incursions by Mexican military and law enforcement personnel into the U.S. since 1996.  \n\n“There is little doubt that the majority of these incidences are accidental,” said Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas., chairman of the Security Investigations Subcommittee.  “However, there are several reports of intentional violations of U.S. sovereignty by groups, often smuggling hundreds of pounds of drugs, which appear to be associated with members of the Mexican military or police forces,” McCaul said.\n\nAn incident last month in Hudspeth County, Texas, along the border east of El Paso, pushed the issue of alleged Mexican military incursions into the national spotlight.  “It was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” McCaul said.\n\nOn Jan. 23, a group of Texas deputy sheriffs, acting on a tip, intercepted a group of drug smugglers and were surprised to find what they believed to be Mexican soldiers with automatic weapons and a military vehicle providing armed security.  \n\nWhen confronted by the deputies, the drug smugglers raced back across the border while men in Mexican military uniforms, driving a Humvee, “took up a defensive position” that Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West described as a "military maneuver." \n\nWhen one of the vehicles carrying drugs got stuck in the river, the uniformed men fanned out and took up protective positions as others unloaded the marijuana, West testified.  When the drugs were unloaded, the truck was set on fire “and still sits in the river where it burned,” West said.  \n\nMexican officials said Friday that, after an initial investigation, none of its military were involved in the episode.  A State Department official testifying Tuesday said that a separate U.S. investigation is still being conducted.\n\nNothing unusual\nMexican soldiers caught inside U.S. boundaries “isn’t a new phenomenon,” said David Aguilar, chief of the U.S. Border Patrol. Although the Mexican military has an “internal policy” that states they won’t operate within about two miles of the U.S., that policy is routinely violated or simply ignored, he said. “We often spot them” near or inside U.S. borders, Aguilar said.\n\nAnd on several occasions the U.S. has chased, apprehended and even detained members of the Mexican military, Aguilar said during his testimony. However, the U.S. has no concrete evidence that the Mexican military is in any way involved in drug smuggling, Aguilar was quick to point out.\n\n“However, we address these (incursions) as the serious criminal acts that they are, and these cases are actively pursued,” Aguilar said.\n\nUnion president Bonner asked Congress to treat the issue with more seriousness because the violence was widespread, leading to a “growing problem of armed incursions across the southwest border of the United States by current and former Mexican soldiers and law enforcement officers.”  \n\nBonner also urged the subcommittee members to hold Mexico accountable as well for not doing enough on its side of the border to help stem the problem.\n\nThe violence is escalating even as state and federal border crackdown initiatives take hold, law enforcement officials told the panel Tuesday.\n\nDrug smugglers have moved to sophisticated techniques and increasingly lethal weaponry, including machine guns, said West.  “And I’m afraid the situation wi
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no, they would just sneak over the border and do lawn maintainence for the liberal elite.\n\nLOL\n\n\nAccording to the Wacko Weekly World News, they have already been here and have advised the past several presidents
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Stop? No.\n\nWill the National Guard help at all?  In their present "supporting role", all they will be able to do is count how many illegal border crossers run past them and radio it to the Border Patrol.\n\nWill a wall help? Anecdotal evidence from parts of the border that have walls says that it will reduce the number of crossings but nothing will stop some crossings. Even the Berlin Wall didn't stop people from crossing but the numbers that did make it were really small.  (Please note that I am not saying that we need to make our southern border like the Berlin Wall, I am merely pointing out that no wall is 100% crossing proof but they do cut down on the easy crossings).
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They are not vigilantes, they are Americans trying to defend our nation because our government won't.\n\nSend money to their cause or go volunteer if you can. Also, send a brick to your congressman and urge him or her to build a wall and stop the invasion of America!\n\nAnd for those of you who think they are shooting people, educate yourselves. They are standing watch because nobody else will do it. They call the border patrol when they see an illegal alien crossing into OUR country so they can be escorted back into THEIR country.
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Yes they are.. Imagine that you live in a neighborhood and your house is being robbed by vandals and the police don't do nothing about it,, wouldn't you defend your property. Well this is what the brave American citizens are doing, defending our country from just about the same, illegal immigration, drugs smugglers, terrorists, criminals, etc. And they doing it free of charge. These brave Americans are called The Minutemen, the name they took from another brave Americans that fought the English in our Revolutionary War.
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No worries at all. They're almost sure to succeed, unless Bush actually gets involved and tries to help.\n\nBad news for the rest of us, but what are you going to do -- actually get involved, speak out and try to stop them?\n\nI'm already stocking up on canned goods.
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Minute-Men should start picking up vegetables, work on construction, and doing all the hard labor to keep immigrants from working. Instead of hearing whites saying that they can do all those jobs without the Mexicans I would like to see them actually doing those jobs. More action less words!