Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday it has no plans to enlist citizen volunteers to help patrol U.S. borders, one day after its top border enforcement official said he was exploring such an idea.
On Wednesday, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Robert C. Bonner told The Associated Press that his agency was considering the training of volunteers to create "something akin to a Border Patrol auxiliary."
But a Homeland Security spokesman issued a statement Thursday backing off Bonner's controversial suggestion.
Posted by katie at July 22, 2005