Border Patrol Union Says Needs US Military

By Sher Zieve – Speaking before a Congressional Homeland Security committee on Tuesday, the president of the National Border Council TJ Bonner said that it needs US military personnel to take up strategic positions along the US-Mexico border. The National Border Council represents 10,500 Border Patrol Agents.

Bonner told the House Homeland Security subcommittee on Investigations: "If the Mexican military is coming into the United States, our law enforcement agents do not have the training to deal with that.” Although Mexico continues to deny that the Mexican military has engaged in incursions into the US and has said they are drug smugglers posing as the Mexican military, the Daily Bulletin reports that Texas officials believe that it may be both.