Not enough to really do anything. It's a breadcrumb to throw "See what I did". Not to mention that the national guard troops won't be allowed to really do anything.
The National Guard troops will work on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support, analysis and training, and support efforts to block drug trafficking. They will temporarily supplement Border Patrol agents until Customs and Border Protection can recruit and train additional officers and agents to serve on the border, according to a letter Tuesday from top administration security officials to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich.
Do you think they will even be armed? I don't.
Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said the situation on the ground now is different from when Bush deployed the Guard. Arrests have fallen in the Arizona sector and there've been record drug seizures.
She said the border is more violent and law enforcement is outgunned. She and other lawmakers want the troops to be armed - they were not in the previous deployment.
The ONLY reason why the Evil One took this action at all was because Republicans said they were going to bring it to a congressional vote. That would have put everyone who voted against border security on record and not looking good this November.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100526/D9FUFH2O0.html
05-26-2010, 05:09 AM
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