Our Border Needs Our Military

Our Border Patrol and local lawmen have been under fire for years. The Mexican military has crossed the border and been caught 216 times in the past ten years. And it is getting worse:

Assaults against Border Patrol agents have more than doubled over the past two years, many by Mexico-based alien and drug gangs more inclined than ever to use violence as a means of ensuring success in the smuggling of people and contraband.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff acknowledges that although the department has begun to make progress against “the criminals and thugs” operating along the U.S.-Mexico border, “we are beginning to see more violence in some border communities and against our Border Patrol agents as these traffickers … seek to protect their turf.

“We must provide the manpower and resources they need to carry out their duties, and we are working hard to make sure they get them,” Mr. Chertoff said during a speech in Houston this month.

This is our BORDER you moron. Send the military down there. What is going on here? Why isn’t this being taken care of? I just don’t get it. Mexico has the military on their southern border to keep out people they don’t want in their country. We allow our Border Partol to be subjected to violence and respond with words.

Several noted that one six-mile section of border near San Diego, regarded as one of the most dangerous alien- and drug-smuggling corridors in the country, previously was assigned as many as 50 agents, but has been expanded to 13 miles and has one agent posted for each mile.

“That kind of situation is becoming increasingly common,” Mr. Moran said. “The status quo is unacceptable. Agents are being assaulted four to five times per shift. Ironically, the region has often been touted as the cornerstone of Operation Gatekeeper. Well, the cornerstone is crumbling and if changes don’t happen soon, we will lose an agent.”

Will that change anything? I doubt it. It is estimated that 12 Americans die because of illegal aliens each day. What would one more mean? There would be words, promises, maybe a wreath laying, then back to business as usual.

Don’t let this happen. Save lives. Build the fence. Militarize the border.