The military needs to replace the border patrol even if we have to close bases in Europe to do it. We need to lock down the border preferably with full militarization. Throwing illegal immigration aside Mexico is on the verge of civil war and it will spill over into this country if we let it and it could kill thousands of US citizens.
Mexico is a much bigger threat than China or Russia if only because its unstable and right on our border.
“Mexico is a much bigger threat than China or Russia if only because its unstable and right on our border.”
According to some congresspeople, even open border proponents, Mexico is the biggest threat of anyone.
Lugar: Mexican drug lords ‘most immediate’ threat to U.S. security
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2596614/posts
Border Patrol veterans speak out
[snip]The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers, or NAFBPO, has issued a proposal for “Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement and Reform.” Unlike the speeches by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, these proposals have some relation to reality. Who are the members of NAFBPO? Some are retired and former high-ranking Border Patrol managers, individuals who managed the agency’s training academy, supervised hundreds of agents in field operations or held senior positions at headquarters. Cumulatively, they have several hundred years of professional experience guarding our borders. The picture they paint of what needs to be done is based on that experience, not political...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2601255/posts
The military would have to follow the same environmental laws that the Border Patrol does. The BP is not the problem the problem is that they are not being allowed to do their jobs.