No. Building roads is NOT patrolling the border. Given the debate and sensitivity of the dispatch of the Guard to the border, we ought to be more careful.
Utah Guard unit patrols U.S.-Mexico border
By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN
The Associated Press
SAN LUIS, Ariz. - Military bulldozers, road graders and other heavy equipment rumbled along the Mexican border early Monday as more than 50 National Guardsmen from Utah became the first unit to get to work under President Bush's crackdown on illegal immigration.
The soldiers with the 116th Construction Support Equipment Company rolled out at 3:45 a.m. for more than two weeks of duty. They will improve a dirt road running parallel along the border, reinforce a fence and wire new lighting to help the Border Patrol spot illegal immigrants trying to come across.
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