NG Border Troops Cut to 300

[Last hard class]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45741920...news-security/



The Government will be doing more with less. I have my doubts.



LHC

[hooah12]

That seems very likely, especially since the drugs and guns coming from Mexico are causing no problems here... oh wait

[lindy]

Originally Posted by Last hard class

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45741920...news-security/



The Government will be doing more with less. I have my doubts.



LHC

It's all about $$$$$ as Guard troops are expensive.

[PSM]

Don't need them. We're going to have "self-serve" kiosks:

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas (AP) -- The bloody drug war in Mexico shows no sign of relenting. Neither do calls for tighter border security amid rising fears of spillover violence.

This hardly seems a time the U.S. would be willing to allow people to cross the border legally from Mexico without a customs officer in sight. But in this rugged, remote West Texas terrain where wading across the shallow Rio Grande undetected is all too easy, federal authorities are touting a proposal to open an unmanned port of entry as a security upgrade.

By the spring, kiosks could open up in Big Bend National Park allowing people from the tiny Mexican town of Boquillas del Carmen to scan their identity documents and talk to a customs officer in another location, at least 100 miles away.

Pat

[Foggy Bottom]

I hope we all remember the last time a border was defended by 300.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-6M5FukAoE