washingtontimes.com
A Texas congressman, concerned about the government's lack of manpower and resources to protect America's borders against criminal aliens and terrorists, wants a "corps of civilian volunteers" appointed to help guard the nation's borders.
Rep. John Culberson, Texas Republican, has introduced legislation to authorize and fund the "Border Protection Corps" for states along the Mexican and Canadian borders, comprising civilians named by the governors to work as sworn law-enforcement officers, alongside state and local authorities and the U.S. Border Patrol.
Known as the Border Protection Corps Act, the bill would fund -- through $6.8 billion in unspent Department of Homeland Security first-responder funds -- the volunteer groups and the federal government's cost of detaining and deporting foreign nationals caught at the border.
Posted by katie at August 26, 2005