During a Monday morning Pentagon news conference, Gen. Craig McKinley, chief of the National Guard Bureau told reporters that National Guard troops will begin a yearlong deployment on August 1, along the 2,000 mile-long U.S./Mexican border.
While the 1,200 troops will reportedly be armed, they may only use their weapons for self-defense.
The troops will be distributed along the border as follows:
-Arizona…524
-Texas…250
-California…224
-New Mexico…72
With another 130 troops assigned to something called a “national liaison office.”
One item which Gen. Craig let slip during the press conference was the fact that the states of Arizona, Texas, California, and New Mexico combined, are currently contributing 54,000 National Guard troops to the U.S. war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
However, the federal government can only supply 1,200 troops back to that region, as they are being invaded by drug dealers and human smugglers.
The number of troops being sent to the expansive, and incredibly dangerous border amounts to .6 soldiers for every mile of the border, this combined with the questionable rules of engagement under which they will be serving, the deployment is nothing more than a pitiable, political gesture from the White House.
In 2005, the Bush administration began to use U.S. combat troops to patrol the borders which define Iraq. In fact, at the time, he announced that there would be a complete lock-down on Iraq's borders during that nation's elections. Obama is now using our troops in that same capacity, as well as in providing border security for Afghanistan.
While protecting the borders of foreign lands has been a priority for both Presidents Bush and Obama, neither has ever shown a portion of that commitment to their own country.
The Mexican border could and should be made a permanent duty station for U.S. troops. This would allow the Border Patrol to fully staff the official entry points, which would dramatically reduce the amount of drugs as well as the number of criminals coming into this country through those checkpoints on a daily basis.
Of course, we have the resources to defend this nation, we need only the political will to do so.
It would seem that the taxpayers of Arizona, Texas, California, and New Mexico are working for the security of foreign lands, rather than for that of their own states.
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Actually, it is only .6 soldier per mile.
Even less if you consider the 130 liason troops.
Then, when you consider that those 1070 active troops will be divided between 4 daily shifts (days, swings, midnights, and days off), each shift will add 267 individuals to the border security effort.
Divide 1950 border miles by 267 soldiers and now it is down to .137 soldiers per mile per shift.
For Arizona, that works out to an additional soldier approximately every 2 miles on each shift.
Think that will stop this? Border Invasion Pics website
What will the 130 liason troops be liasoning?
American people please force your senators to send troops to the border, i am from Mexico and i am telling you what is happening here is just pure hell!
I am a professional who work in this so called Republic who, wishes something was done to help us and for you guys safety!
This mexican low lifers are not the entire Mexican society. that some Mexicans care for!
i agree with americans, when they say! Good fences make good neighbors .
Put troops in the border and kill all the drug dealers cockroaches
Why dont Your own People do anything? For time I can remember Payoffs are easy there, If not they take your car. so if Your very own goverment Wont help, or dont care . then Why should we?
I think Building all new prisons along the Border along with tent city type areas as well, would be a great start , because so much more high profile activity. Just think gun towers, Crime Dogs Every officer armed. well you get the idea.
"While the 1,200 troops will reportedly be armed, they may only use their weapons for self-defense."
Can you imagine what General George Patton and President Eisenhower
would say to that?
They must be rolling in their graves! Laughing their buns off!
Mr. president, you need to go to the border and see for yourself the crap we (agents) and other law abiding US citizens and residents have to deal with.
The trash, drugs, and crime involving smugglers, gangbangers, and plain ole illegal aliens who have no respect for anyone by spitting and screaming in your face "viva la raza" we are going to take over. That is the god's honest truth cause it happens to me on a daily basis. But to have you and your admin do nothing but help the illegals to stay here is the worse thing you can let happen to this country......
After a couple of hours sitting there,if you ever muster the courage and not bring your secret service protection team, you would become the biggest whiner demanding our govt do something about it.
Then again I don't see where you care about anyone who lives near the border or the people in other cities where illegal aliens are becoming the majority.
yes, I belive you. I was told over 10 years ago (by legal Mexican) about their plan to overpopulate, placing their own People into office, then about taking Over useing our own laws.
He told me because this is their Land and Not Americas. Then He mentioned all the western states.
this took place when nacey Reagan was using an illegal as a House keeper. because she was so good.
I say this, if she still using one, then she should go to Jail also !
patrolagent/18years says:
After a couple of hours sitting there,if you ever muster the courage and not bring your secret service protection team,
a real sworn in officer would never contemplate such a situation
Everyone with any money are now leaving CA to places unknown, wherever they are away from the criminal over-plugging-welfare-bulging, rapists, gangs that have overrun CA! ALL BECAUSE OF COMPLACENT leaders of CA too busy stashing their own bank accounts. Thank God we have Gov. Brewer but with less than .6 soldier per mile what is the point? Obama has no clue he is to busy flying around the Country on vacations to know what is going on in real life, having whitehouse partys one after another while us Arizonians are in fear on a daily basis! I hope he gets Impeached!!!
That's hilarious. Suggesting Obama visit the border is ludicrous. How can he fix a problem when he himself is part of that very same problem. Isn't it obvious to everyone the government has no intention to do anything other than line their own pockets? The Federal Government has absolutely no concern with the welfare of American citizens. Who in their right mind would ask for help on the border from someone who files suit against a state for passing a law that protects its citizens?
We are way past the point of expecting political whores to stop this country in its ever accelerating slide into the cesspool of history. America is getting exactly what it deserves for being apathetic and ignorant.
MY UNDERSTANDING IF AMERICAN MILITARY CHECKING OUT TROUBLE AREA? THEY KNOCK ON RESIDENTS DOOR IF THEIR TOLD THEY CANNOT ENTER OUR SOLDIERS HAVE TO LEAVE? DOES THIS TYPE OF ENFORCEMENT SOUND FAMILAR THINK? ANYWAY HOW DO YOU GET ANYTHING DONE WITH THESE RESTRICTIONS? SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS NOT TRUE OUR MILITARY HAS THEIR HANDS TIED BY FEDS??
that was one..... Guess why not so plain !
You had better go Home NOW
This is a slap in the face of every American that lives near the border with Mexico. .6 soldiers per mile of border couldn't slow a dung beetle from crossing the border. Now there are questions about whether Hizballah was involved in the car-bombing in Juarez. Remember them? 400 dead Marines in Lebanon ring a bell? They hate us, they use drug cartels to finance their operations, they are on our borders....When will this administration wake up? This kind of arrogant ignorance smacks of simply not caring for our citizens. I'm not anti-Mexican. It's the OTM's that pose the biggest threat. Will it take a repeat of 9/11 to wake these clowns up? Or do they even care? This smacks of criminal dereliction of duty for a Commander in chief.
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