Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer will meet Monday in Phoenix with federal officials dispatched by President Barack Obama to provide specifics for Arizona regarding his plans to tighten security along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The meeting in Brewer's office stems from Brewer's June 3 visit to the White House where she and Obama discussed border security and immigration. Brewer has asked for specifics on how the plans apply to Arizona.
The president previously announced that he plans to send 1,200 troops to the border, and he asked Congress for $600 million to pay for 1,000 more Border Patrol agents, 160 new federal immigration officers and two unmanned aircraft.
Brewer had called on Obama to deploy the National Guard to help stem the flow of illegal immigrants and drug smugglers across the border, and she reacted to Obama's initial announcement by saying 1,200 Guard personnel wouldn't be enough. She also urged Obama to send National Guard helicopters and surveillance drones to the border to help tight.
The White House has said the delegation to Arizona is headed by John Brennan, deputy national security adviser for homeland security and counterterrorism.
Before meeting with Brewer on Monday afternoon, the delegation was scheduled to meet in Tucson with Arizona officials including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and Attorney General Terry Goddard, also a Democrat.
The meetings follow months of heated debate over illegal immigration sparked by the passage of a new Arizona law on April 23. The law generally requires police investigating another incident or crime to ask people about their immigration status if there's a "reasonable suspicion" they're in the country illegally.
The meeting comes as Arizona officials await word on a widely anticipated federal legal challenge to the measure. Obama has called the law "misguided." Brewer has said its enactment was necessary because of federal inaction on border enforcement.
stan000 posted at 11:36 am on Mon, Jun 28, 2010.
Bring a video camera or just like last time... "It never happened" will be the fed's story.
mobique posted at 12:00 pm on Mon, Jun 28, 2010.
Isn't it amazing they came to see jan brewer but first they have to go to tucson and speak with 2 democraps that are against the bill. You can look at the actions of goddard and see what kind of a govener he would make as govener if elected. Another puppet for the scum bags we have in washington. Every one of the people from the president down should be impeached on conflict of interest charges. They have all shown their true colors. We put them in there to work for us instead they are working for them selves and the heck with us. We spend billions on a war that is going no where and yet we have homeless on the streats of America, we have the highest unemployment in a decade and the democraps scrap a job's bill but bail out big banks and wall street. They won't do anything about immigration because of the mexican vote. What about jobs, face it folks there are no good jobs left in America, they have all gone over seas there are 2 more companys in az. that are closing in december they have provided jobs for 30 years. Back east we heard an automotive assembly plant hiring 700 people may be leaving at years end. It's hard to raise a family and put a roof over your head on 7.00 dollars an hour. I believe it is time to make some changes in this country or you might as well move the mexican border up to the canadian border and call this great country the UNITED STATES OF MEXICO.
forkedlift1 posted at 12:22 pm on Mon, Jun 28, 2010.
Oh I think a small audio recording device, supplied by the feds, when the meeting takes place with Brewer in her office will suffice. For one who insists that the majority of illegal "trespassers" into our country are drug smugglers and that her father died fighting the Nazis, one never knows what she's apt to say.
cascasual posted at 11:30 pm on Tue, Jun 29, 2010.
Can't we just have one of our armed forces training camp right on the border?????? kill two birds......