Obama has authorised more troops to the Mexican border. Will they actually be allowed to arrest the illegals as they come into the country? Will the left protest this the same way they protested the Arizona law? Will we hear how unconstitutional it is to ask for ID? I just can't get that picture out of my head of the Democrats in Congress giving a standing ovation against Arizona for Calderon. It's time they stop playing politics and start leading this country into a bright future instead of this. Since Obama is sending a bunch of troops that are untrained to do the job maybe they can clean up the mess from the human trafficking and labor slave trade.
New York Times: LOS ANGELES — President Obama will send up to 1,200 National Guard troops to the Southwest border and seek increased spending on law enforcement there to combat drug smuggling after demands from Republican and Democratic lawmakers that border security be tightened…
The troops will be stationed in the four border states for a year, White House officials said. It is not certain when they will arrive, the officials said.
The troops will join a few hundred members of the Guard already assigned there to help the police hunt for drug smugglers. The additional troops will provide support to law enforcement officers by helping observe and monitor traffic between official border crossings. They will also help analyze trafficking patterns in the hope of intercepting illegal drug shipments…
The soldiers will not directly make arrests of border crossers and smugglers, something they are not trained to do.
