According to breitbart.com:
US National Guard troops being sent to the Mexican border will be used to stem the flow of guns and drugs across the frontier and not to enforce US immigration laws, the State Department said Wednesday.
The clarification came after the Mexican government urged Washington not to use the additional troops to go after illegal immigrants.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday authorized the deployment of up to 1,200 additional troops to border areas but State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters, "It's not about immigration."
He said the move was "fully consistent with our efforts to do our part to stem, you know, violence, to interdict the flow of dangerous people and dangerous goods -- drugs, guns, people."
He said the extra troops would be used to free up civilians engaged in support functions so that law enforcement personnel can be increased along the 2,000-mile-long (3,200 kilometer) border.
Nearly 13 million Mexicans live in the United States, more than half of them illegally.
"We have explained the president's announcement to the government of Mexico, and they fully understand the rationale behind it," Crowley said.
Obama's announcement came less than a week after a state visit to Washington by Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who asked for greater US backing for a bloody three-year-old war on drug cartels.
Drug violence has claimed the lives of nearly 23,000 people over the past three years.
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Here's what some bloggers wrote:
Mexico spoke and Obama listened. People of the United States speak and he ignores.
Un-F-ing-believable. What the hell are they even bothering to send them for? Are they going to be handing out maps and water? It's time for a civil war.
Between illegals, ObamaCare, taxes, and freeloaders, this admin is about to find the snapping point of the American people. And once that happens, it ain't going to be pretty....
So.... if i understand this correctly, the National Guard is going to screen the folks coming across the border, and let the non dangerous illegals continue into the US and just filter out the dangerous guys to be sent back.
Each soldier shall be allocated voter registrations forms, Obama bumper stickers and census forms to be distributed to each individual entering illegally - oops I mean undocumentedly
Let's just send the Wal*Mart Greeters instead! Probably just as effective.
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WTF? I guess you can see from the bloggers comments above that I'm not the only PISSED American. . . .When will this insanity end. . . .
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.0513d49acfc29bc63d3ee39de8bd3b71.dc1&show_article=1
US National Guard troops being sent to the Mexican border will be used to stem the flow of guns and drugs across the frontier and not to enforce US immigration laws, the State Department said Wednesday.
The clarification came after the Mexican government urged Washington not to use the additional troops to go after illegal immigrants.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday authorized the deployment of up to 1,200 additional troops to border areas but State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters, "It's not about immigration."
He said the move was "fully consistent with our efforts to do our part to stem, you know, violence, to interdict the flow of dangerous people and dangerous goods -- drugs, guns, people."
He said the extra troops would be used to free up civilians engaged in support functions so that law enforcement personnel can be increased along the 2,000-mile-long (3,200 kilometer) border.
Nearly 13 million Mexicans live in the United States, more than half of them illegally.
"We have explained the president's announcement to the government of Mexico, and they fully understand the rationale behind it," Crowley said.
Obama's announcement came less than a week after a state visit to Washington by Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who asked for greater US backing for a bloody three-year-old war on drug cartels.
Drug violence has claimed the lives of nearly 23,000 people over the past three years.
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Here's what some bloggers wrote:
Mexico spoke and Obama listened. People of the United States speak and he ignores.
Un-F-ing-believable. What the hell are they even bothering to send them for? Are they going to be handing out maps and water? It's time for a civil war.
Between illegals, ObamaCare, taxes, and freeloaders, this admin is about to find the snapping point of the American people. And once that happens, it ain't going to be pretty....
So.... if i understand this correctly, the National Guard is going to screen the folks coming across the border, and let the non dangerous illegals continue into the US and just filter out the dangerous guys to be sent back.
Each soldier shall be allocated voter registrations forms, Obama bumper stickers and census forms to be distributed to each individual entering illegally - oops I mean undocumentedly
Let's just send the Wal*Mart Greeters instead! Probably just as effective.
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WTF? I guess you can see from the bloggers comments above that I'm not the only PISSED American. . . .When will this insanity end. . . .
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.0513d49acfc29bc63d3ee39de8bd3b71.dc1&show_article=1
