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I don't think the problem's of a nature that the LEOs aren't competent to handle. It's just that there aren't enough of them, and they get very little support in other ways.

The fact that a problem has national security implications doesn't mean the military is the best equipped to deal with it. The military's designed to deal with a specific type of national security problem: other militaries. But if, for example, we find out that So-and-So has likely been providing financial support to terrorists, we don't send the Army in after him, even though it's clearly a national security matter. I think it's the same along the border. If there's no army to fight, civilian law enforcement is capable of handling the job.