National Guard troops expected by Aug. 1

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• Accuracy posted at 4:24 pm on Mon, Jul 19, 2010.

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  1,200 National Guard troops deployment actions, but insufficient

  President Obama admitted that the federal government has failed. So, in May he authorized the deployment of up to an additional 1,200 National Guard soldiers to the Southwest border to support (one year) for intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance and counternarcotics enforcement.

  Arizona will get 524 out of 1,200 National Guard Troops that will be deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border Aug. 1 for the yearlong deployment to keep a lookout for illegal border crossers and to crack down on transnational smuggling and cartel violence.

  Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, said the deployment is not enough "nor tied to a strategy to comprehensively defeat the increasingly violent drug- and alien-smuggling cartels that operate in Arizona on a daily basis."

  “But the governors of Texas and Arizona, both Republicans, complained last week that 1,200 troops are insufficient’………..

  Gov. Jan Brewer said the deployment is not enough "nor tied to a strategy to comprehensively defeat the increasingly violent drug- and alien-smuggling cartels that operate in Arizona on a daily basis."

  U.S. Reps. Ann Kirkpatrick and Gabrielle Giffords, both Arizona Democrats, separately called the announced actions welcome but insufficient.
  

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• coyote posted at 11:05 am on Tue, Jul 20, 2010.

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  Does anyone know how many is enough? We have doubled the number in the last year.

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• Rich posted at 2:11 pm on Tue, Jul 20, 2010.

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  coyote,

  If it helps you to figure The Chinese built a wall with 3,889.5 miles of sections of actual wall, 223.5 miles of trenches and 1,387.2 miles of natural defensive barriers such as hills and rivers. They garrisoned it with 2.5 million troops. It was finished in 1600 AD. It failed in 1644 AD. So, obviously the "dang fence" is going to have to be pretty impressive and garrisoned by whole lot more than 1200 weekend warriors. If history is any guideline.

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• Masterrogue666 posted at 8:29 am on Fri, Jul 23, 2010.

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  Rich: Interesting that you'd mention the Wall of China. I would agree that a wall won't completely stop ILLEGAL ALIENS from invading our country. But it would so them down to a trickle that could be handled much easier then.

  Since the wall failed, the Mogols conquered China. If the wall wasn't put up, they would have been conquered sooner. Me, I'd rather fight than roll over for an invader...

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasion_of_China
  

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