Border states more bitter than sweet on troop plan

“President George W. Bush’s plan to put troops on the U.S.-Mexico border to stem illegal migrants met mixed reactions in stressed border states ”” from support in Arizona to skepticism in California and New Mexico to outrage among Hispanic activists.

Bush told the nation Monday he would dispatch 6,000 National Guard troops to the 2,000-mile border as part of a new plan to tighten security and placate those who want a crackdown on the millions of poor who seek work each year in the world’s richest nation.”

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