Whenever we hear talk of deploying the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border, whether it's to combat illegal immigration or fight drug traffickers and arms smugglers or, heaven forbid, to seal the border against the spread of the swine flu, we're naturally apprehensive.

Such was the case when we learned that the Pentagon and Homeland Security Department are developing contingency plans to send National Guard troops to the border under a $350 million initiative that would expand the ...

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