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Even I could do the math.
A couple weeks ago, someone stated 1,200 troops is the number the states asked for. If that was the case, why are Tx. and Az. now saying it's an insufficient number. Or, did MSM slip that misinformation into the program? Like I sad before, 1,200 is a token action. It did manage to get the Liberals whet with excitement that Massah numero uno did something historic.  Wut a joke!
Texas, Arizona governors say share of National Guard troops not enough to secure border 12:00 AM CDT on Tuesday, June 29, 2010 The Associated Press PHOENIX – The Texas and Arizona governors criticized the Obama administration's border security plans Monday, saying not enough National Guard troops are being deployed to their states. "What we heard wasn't anything what we hoped to hear," Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer told reporters after a 90-minue briefing by federal officials sent by President Barack Obama. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican like Brewer, said in a statement that the deployment was "insufficient to meet the needs of securing the Texas-Mexico border." A White House statement said plans to deploy 1,200 additional National Guard soldiers along the U.S.-Mexico border would "complement the unprecedented resources and additional efforts already devoted by this administration to securing the Southwest border." Arizona would get 524 National Guard troops, Texas would get 250, California 224 and New Mexico 72, officials said. Another 130 would be at a national liaison office. Brewer has said the deployment should total 6,000, including 3,000 in Arizona, the state with the most illegal border crossings. Perry asked in January 2009 for 1,000 National Guard troops to help with border security in Texas. The White House statement said the extra Guard troops would be used to provide intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance support as well as backup to counternarcotics enforcement until more civilian officers are trained and stationed at the border. The federal team that visited Arizona was led by John Brennan, a national security adviser who Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard said has the job of evaluating "the whole picture." "He never said this is all," Goddard said. "He said this is what we're going to do right now." C.J. Karamargin, a spokesman for Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, said the 524 troops are being trained for deployment in August, and Goddard said two drone aircraft also will be used in Arizona. Brewer said that Obama assured her during a White House visit June 3 that the majority of the troops he had announced for the border would go to Arizona. |
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Isnt AP part of MSM?
Well, I wasnt there to read the requests or see how the decision was made. I have read plenty of information about the border though. Much of it points to the number of illegal immigrants crossing actually decreasing in correlation with economic downturns and increasing with economic upswing and having little to do with the number of agents which has been INCREASED each year since 1992. |
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