They want to be on their jobs, protecting the food supply, guarding our borders," he said.
They want to be on their jobs, protecting the food supply, guarding our borders," Cox said.
Most of the security firms supplying guards are British.
At best, there will be some improvements in the border-security co-ordination system known as Frontex, which supplies guards, surveillance aircraft and patrol ships to augment national forces.
The Bush administration expanded the outsourcing strategy after the invasion of Iraq, with companies like Blackwater and its two main competitors, Triple Canopy and DynCorp, supplying guards and training at many levels of the war.
Each country supplied guards for the prison for a month at a time on a rotating basis.
G4S has come under intense criticism in recent days after admitting it has failed to supply enough guards for the Olympics.
G4S's profits collapsed by a third after the security contractor was forced to pay out £88m over its failure to supply enough guards for the London 2012 Olympics.
The security firm had been committed to supply 13,700 guards as demanded in its contract, worth £284m, which it now says it is unlikely to be able to fulfil.
The latest blow for G4S comes after the security behemoth's name was besmirched by its London Olympic fiasco last year, where the security giant paid out £88 million over its failure to supply enough guards for the Games — forcing the Army to be drafted in instead.
The real 17th century musketeer d'Artagnan, who lived two doors down from Mr. Banier's house, was well aware of a French proverb that counted on wealthy aristocratic women to supply dashing guards with bags of coins on their saddles: "The most beautiful girl can only give what she has," the proverb says.
