A military contractor is recruiting current and former agents with the U.S. Border Patrol to teach Iraqis how to secure their national borders. The U.S. State Department has asked Virginia-based DynCorp International to find 120 people with Customs and Border Enforcement experience to go to Iraq for the training.
Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano said she was worried that DynCorp’s effort is distracting from security along the U.S.-Mexico border. She and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson wrote President Bush this week to say the deal “makes no sense.”
“We should be focused on supporting our nation’s security efforts along the Mexican and Canadian border instead of hampering (the Customs and Border Patrol) by sending our best agents to a war zone in Iraq,” the governors wrote.
Are they supposed to train the Iraqi Border Patrol to keep their hands off illegals on their way to work for spinach farmers or chicken pluckers or stucco contractors? Our guys already have the experience.
ISNT he in a DEAD DUCK situation…
Its to LATE.
He is going to TRY and place as many people Over there as he can….
It will make it harder and HARDER to get out.
NOW he wants to pay ANOTHER corp, to go in….AND WE PAY FOR IT.
Makes mi proud to be uh ‘Merican.
The agents know what to do; the problem is their management.
The two who did the right thing went to jail for it – so there may be a lot of former BP agents soon.
Well, they do have experience hunting down brown skinned folk.
well,
Lets see…
deplete the HOME defence by 90%.
Send all military and State Over to Iraq…
We can only monitor 10% of ALL imports coming in from SPECIAL locations, and forget the rest of the imports…Thats less then 1% coverage of ALL imports.
Forget the drug wars, WE GOT a REAL war to wage…
We are sitting in a VERY vulnerable position… and the only defenders are Gun toting COPS.
Why is the article about border patrol, but the picture says “Border Parole?” Oh, my goodness, don’t tell me.