This from the Washington Tmes:

Georgia Rep. Charlie Norwood, a critic of President Bush’s efforts to secure U.S. borders, wants the administration to deploy 50,000 troops to guard America’s southern and northern borders.
“For those who say that deploying tens of thousands of soldiers to secure our 7,000 total miles of border is unrealistic, please explain our posting 37,000 troops for 50 years to secure 155 miles of South Korea’s border,” Mr. Norwood said.
Mr. Norwood, a Republican who unsuccessfully has sought the passage of legislation to give 600,000 state, local and tribal police officers authority to enforce federal immigration law, said Mr. Bush’s deployment in May of 6,000 National Guard troops on the southwestern border is a “weak response” to the flood of illegal aliens.

Mr. Norwood said the deployment would cost $2.5 billion a year, less than 4 percent of the minimum $70 billion a year the nation spends for the health care, education and incarceration costs of illegal aliens.
The six-term congressman said that since the House investigation, former U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Robert C. Bonner and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have estimated the number of auxiliary troops necessary at 50,000. He said that Texas Gov. Rick Perry put the number at 60,000 and that the Heritage Foundation called for a force of at least 48,000.
“President Bush responded … by ordering 6,000 National Guard to the southern border,” he said. “The size of the deployment is a fraction of what’s necessary to do the job right. It simply will take that many soldiers posted on the 2,000-mile border with Mexico to stop this crisis.”

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