National Guard is already missed at U.S.-Mexico border From: dallasnews.com
Tagged: borderPosted on: June 23rd, 2008
The National Guard troops sent to the U.S.-Mexican border two years ago have mostly been withdrawn, despite pleas from governors who were once skeptical of using soldiers to catch illegal immigrants and drug smugglers.
When the Guard was posted along the frontier in 2006 to help the strapped Border Patrol, critics warned that sending soldiers would be an insult to Mexico and that innocents could get shot by troops trained for combat, not law enforcement. “*
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