I''m kinda curious how American soldiers might feel about holding off the illegals at the border ...?

Question

should that have to be done. Many of you fine folks are fighting in Iran and elsewhere, only to hear that your country is being overridden with folks from down south of the border with no concern for our laws, our infrastructure and for some your wives and the benefits of your children. Maybe you can't say but if you can, is there frustration in your hearts? Will you come back to the USA and deffend our borders if you need to?

Nancy: WE got a lot of logs in the fire don't we? I have to wonder sometimes which "danger" is really more important. Time will tell. Can't say life is dull in the USA anymore.

Not to argue Edgar: but if your country were taken over, without fight cuz the gov folks thought it wasn't sucha good idea but 90% or so of the populace thought otherwise, you don't think that's an important issue? I do clearly see your point and both need to be done in my mind.

I'm gratified to hear of our capabilities and I personally deeply appreciate what you folks all do for those of us here. I just don't want run out of the hen house, while we all stand around here talkin about it. Timing is everything. Thanks to you all.

Answer 1

Actually, there are laws that prevent the US military from being the actual guardians of the border. Look up 'posse comitatus".

That being said, we are using the Army National Guard to support the CBP agents with logistical support so more of them can get out of the admin role and out on the beat. We are also supporting them by helping with their infrastructure.

Once I get back from this deployment, I'll spend about three weeks on the border, next year.

Something else you need to understand, the US military has the ability to multi task with few seams. At one time we were fighting a war in Iraq, Afghanistan, peacekeeping in the Balkans and the Sinai, operating counter drug missions in Central and South America as well as Katrina and Rita hurricane operations.

We're large enough to get all that done at one time. We can do it just fine.

Answer 2

Good question here. However, if you don't get very many questions tonight, try asking it again earlier tomorrow because I find that sometimes a question will get buried in here if it is asked late at night and many people who are on the computer in the daytime would have answered if they had seen it.

I like the answer you got from usarmor... and would be interested in hearing the answer to this question from more of our military personnel.

I'm not in the military, but I feel that many would feel that the task of defending our borders would be right on up there with any other duties of our military.

I will look back on here tomorrow to see what answers you received to this question.

Answer 3

First off in this time that we are in anyone found trespassing on American soil should be shot. If the Border Patrol did there patrols with M-4's and if there were signs that read "Anyone that trespasses into American Territory's illegally will be shot" I think the illegals would think twice about jumping the fence. And maybe they would all run back to there own country.

Answer 4

No. they do no longer experience the experience like we people do. it somewhat is with the aid of fact we've an important irritating device working with the aid of our vertebra (backbone) which sends messages to our ideas. this implies that if if our leg is harm, we experience the discomfort on the final ideas. on the different hand, the bugs are non-vertebra and that they have not got necessary irritating device. subsequently if an ant's leg is overwhelmed, in basic terms the leg will experience close by discomfort. apart from, their discomfort fee is short, considering the fact that they produce great style of off springs and their life is short. they could additionally reproduce their lost organs. it somewhat is been pronounced that in case you chop back a cockroach's head, it somewhat is going to die after a month with the aid of ravenous. Scientists have cut back a lobster's leg and feed him, which he ate. it is likewise genuine that aside from human beings no different animal knows its life.

Answer 5

About 2,300 miles from DHS headquarters and the squabbles over its future in Washington, José Maheda guards the southern border. He is one of about 2,300 Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector, a 260-mile stretch from Western Arizona to Douglas.

Of the 1.1 million illegal immigrants the Border Patrol picked up in fiscal 2004, about 500,000 were caught in the Tucson Sector, the highest number on any border. That's up from 350,000 in 2003. Violent confrontations between agents and drug runners and immigrant smugglers have reached record levels. During the first half of fiscal 2005, the sector recorded 132 assaults on agents, including 15 shootings. In fiscal 2004, there were 118.

The agent hides his irritation when a reporter spills a drink in his new white and green Border Patrol Ford Expedition as they buck and skid along the roads outside Nogales. A town of 28,000, about 70 miles south of Tucson, Nogales straddles the border. Maheda points to a well-worn trail that migrants follow on the trek north. Many such routes are known and patrolled, but migrants just keep coming, Maheda says. Off in the desert distance, agents rove on foot. Mobile camera units with sensors and night-vision technology send images back to central command at the Nogales Border Patrol station. Chatter crackles across the radio all morning, reporting sightings of illegal migrants and, in a few cases, apprehensions.

The U.S. side of Nogales is a mecca for Mexicans living nearby. Every day, thousands use their border-crossing credentials - credit-card-sized identifiers containing biometric information - to legally cross in search of bargains at the many local thrift stores. On the Mexican side, about 333,000 people live in tin-roofed shanties squeezed next to each other along narrow dirt roads. The two towns are separated by a 15-foot-high fence made of corrugated scrap metal the Army used during the Vietnam War. It runs for about four miles before shrinking away on each end into barbed wire strung between rusty metal poles among desert brambles.

Agents have caught a Mexican national trying to cross illegally not far from the Nogales port. He identifies himself only as Felipe. From here, he'll be taken back to the Nogales station, where a Border Patrol agent will take a full set of fingerprints and a photo and query the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System to see whether Felipe has a criminal record. If agents want to do a more extensive search, they can contact CBP's National Targeting Center in Washington. It is staffed around-the-clock with CBP officers and analysts who can pull information from sources such as the National Counterterrorism Center.

If our Border Patrol was supported by the governmemt and the Justice Department the military would only be needed as back up.

Answer 6

Dont even compare the two situations. They are not even close, the whole immigration prolem is more of a social and economical issue and has nothing to do with the millitary.

Answer 7

I'm sure they would LOVE to do what you are asking, but right now, I really think they have more important things to think about.

Answer 8

Why don't you join and find out? By the way its IRAQ not IRAN!!!!!

Answer 9

i'm all for it....go USA...