Should active duty military be used to secure the borders and ensure the safety of our nation?

Posse Commentadus (SP?), i.e., it currently is against the law, so forgive me the spelling, I'm old and forget a lot!

Good idea,while boarder patrol is a police agency and subject to the whims of political funds the military .Has advance funds that do not.

No, because border enforcement is a matter of law enforcement. As such, it would be a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which forbids using the Army as law enforcement and states as such;

Sec. 15. From and after the passage of this act it shall not be lawful to employ any part of the Army of the United States, as a posse comitatus, or otherwise, for the purpose of executing the laws, except in such cases and under such circumstances as such employment of said force may be expressly authorized by the Constitution or by act of Congress ; and no money appropriated by this act shall be used to pay any of the expenses incurred in the employment of any troops in violation of this section and any person willfully violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars or imprisonment not exceeding two years or by both such fine and imprisonment[6]

The active component has enough on their plate, the national guard/reserves should carry this mission.

All components (active and reserve) should be used. A good answer was that about Title 10 and Title 32 ant the Posse Act. However, just like the Navy being used in drug interdiction, they have no power of arrest. The Navy or Army adds eyes and ears. The Border Patrol will be called in for the arrest. As would the Coast Guard.

Yes but I also believe that the border patrol should also be considered a part of the U. S. Armed forces.

We train our troops to kill or capture people. Let's not confuse the situation by having them perform "Police like" duties. Stay with our primary reason for "being"!!!

it would help the border patrol. and maybe use it as in deployment work up in crowed control or something. most other countries in the world use the military for this why not us? yes there will be "incidents". sorry but no matter how well your trained "STUFF" happens. and the better liar wins. oh wait lawyer, same thing
the idea is to send them back before the get set up and living here with out "papers". you want to become and American cool. fallow the rules to start with.

Not active duty mission. It is a job for the Guard. Though instead of burdening the south western states it should be rotated through all 50 as the illegal alien issue is a national issue. The Guard should be given more options than just calling ICE. We have already seen that the government isn't willing to fulfill its agreement to the states or up hold the laws already passed.

They will do a lot better job then Border Patrol