We know what the Minutemen, the border governors, Vicente Fox all have to say about Bush's plan to send National Guard troops to the border.
But what does the Border Patrol think? You'd think they'd be thrilled to have an additional 6,000 people helping them out.
Think again.
The McAllen Monitor, (a town on the Texas border) tracked down the President of the National Border Patroal Council
for this story.
McALLEN -- Border Patrol officials say they wouldn't turn down the help of the 6,000 National Guardsmen that President Bush plans to deploy to the nation's southern border, but said their assistance wouldn't be of great help either.
"We wouldn't turn it down," said T.J. Bonner, National Border Patrol Council president. "But it's of marginal value. It's being touted as something that could free up all these Border Patrol agents."
And if you think troops on the border is a bold new initiative, the Border Patrol calls it a big case of big-there-done-that.
There are already a couple of hundred agents helping the Border Patrol by serving in support roles, but there aren't 6,000 positions for the guardsmen to fill, he said.
Bonner dismissed Bush's five-part plan, which was outlined Monday primetime in a live address to the American people, as a "political smokescreen" to appease those who are calling for more border security.
Why does the Border Patrol hate America?