Obama Considers Deploying National Guard to U.S.-Mexico Border

 As President Barack Obama considers deploying National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to control escalating violence,

 Arizona's governor has requested about 250 more National Guard troops on its border with Mexico, and the Texas governor is considering a similar action. “We’re going to examine whether, and if, National Guard deployments would make sense and in what circumstances they would make sense as part of this overall review of our border situation,” Obama told reporters yesterday, according to media reports. “I haven’t drawn any conclusions yet,” reporters said Obama told them. “I don’t have a particular tipping point in mind.” While emphasizing that he does not want to “militarize” the border, Obama called it “unacceptable if you’ve got drug gangs crossing our borders and killing our citizens.”

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Comments

[Janna]

if??? helloooooo

[referman]

The thousands of miles of border is way to much for local and border patrol agencies to handle.FOB posts along the border is a good place for guardsmen to do their 2 weeks a year.It's the desert,hot and nasty.Somewhat like Iraq,Afghanistan and as of this morns riots pakistan.This time give the guard real ammo.Drug money is a large part of terrorist funding.Mexican cartels may be convinced at some point their survivability would be to side with a third party.We need to seal the border not only for security but also for the jobs.The tent towns popping up in the west,unemployment soaring these people need the work.Help Americans first.