The "Great Border Plan"
May 16, 2006 11:37 PM EDT
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The administration has done it again. Another half baked plan to throw the military at a problem. Besides the murky legality of the question of using troops to enforce laws and the problem of who is going to pay for this boon doggle , there is the problem of how to man it. 6000 men on two week stints means roughly 145,000 Gaurdsmen a year or roughly half of the total Army National gaurd or one third of the combined Air and Army National Gaurd. And how effective can you expect part time soldiers to be when they spend their whole allotted 'field training' period every year playing border patrol 1000 miles away from home?
I suspect this is another dumb idea which will gradually fade away into the sunset after a few million spent on a Haliburton or other crony company study or two . Just a bid by a totally out of touch and out to lunch administration to be seen as doing something right. These people are shooting themselves in the foot so often it is a miracle they are still ambulatory.0
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They tried the NAFTA agreement and, while there was certainly some benefit in moving the work to the underpaid, there are problems. In their own countries, workers either have a voice and want increasing pay and benefits or are controlled by 'patrons' who keep wanting an increasing 'cut of the action'. Also, some of the work just isn't possible to move. A guest worker plan solves both problems. You get a work force with no security or voice to demand rights and the 'powers that be' are the 'patrons' so there is no need to cut someone else in on the action.