National Guard border force to be halved; "private contractors" to augment Border Patrol?

From this:
The number of National Guard troops posted near the southern border nationally and in Arizona will drop by half in September, but federal officials have assured Gov. Janet Napolitano that key personnel will remain... While those numbers will drop by half within the next couple of months, Napolitano said the drawdown will involve troops performing administrative duties, not those conducting surveillance and other security functions... "They're not moving Guard from actual observation posts," Napolitano said Wednesday. "What they're doing is removing people from back-office duties."
Meanwhile, from July 7:
The U.S. Border Patrol could dramatically increase its presence on the nation's southern frontier by adding hundreds of private contractors [aka "mercenaries"] to its ranks, according to a proposal presented to Congress last month.

DynCorp International, a Virginia-based military security firm, said it could train and deploy 1,000 private agents to the U.S.-Mexico border within 13 months, offering a quick surge of law enforcement officers to a region struggling to clamp down on illegal immigration.

...So far, the idea has received a tepid response from officials at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, who say their hiring efforts are on schedule.

"That's not even something the Border Patrol would consider," said Ramon Rivera, a Washington-based spokesman for the agency. "We are on track (for hiring) and should be meeting our numbers for 2008."

But the proposal has gained early support from some Republicans, including U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., who introduced a bill last summer that would mandate the addition of 5,000 to 8,000 contract agents.

The bill died in committee, but Rogers may reintroduce it if the Border Patrol fails to meet its hiring goals, his staffers said...

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The Pigs in Government hate the ideals of borders and nation states, What Bush wants is the North American Union and he like his friends will do anything to get to that evil place, I say this war and this Government and the people working for it are our enemies and like this war it is made-up by evil people who will not stop at the murder of billions for the ideals of one world and if that world is all muslim/third world world the bush boys will help. Bush Is Bin Laden, read Alex Jones listen to Savage Nation and buy Guns for life.

This is just what the open-borders crowd wants... an excuse to scream "fascist" and this time they may be right. Just imagine what the media who savaged the LAPD for fighting back the circle-A jerks will do when a mercenary shoots a drug-runner on the border. It could set us back years, and open the floodgates.

David K the foodgate is opened and the enemies of freedom are inside the city and own this Government, its just a matter of time before the rats of the third world own it all and look at you as the enemy, its a replay of 1933-45 and people who can't see that fact will become the new jew inside a death camp. And understand one fact the U.S. Army will not be around to open the gate to free you from that camp or free any of us, D-DAY AND VE AND JV DAY WILL NEVER COME And that evil world that is coming will eat us all alive.