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borgslayer
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| Quote: | (CNN) -- The Pentagon has been asked to draw up options for deploying military personnel to help secure the border with Mexico, CNN has learned.
President Bush could announce a plan as soon as next week, and Pentagon sources told CNN on Friday that National Guard troops might be involved.
Bush is scheduled to speak on immigration and border security at 8 p.m. Monday in an Oval Office address. (Full story)
Pentagon sources told CNN that one idea under consideration is to deploy several thousand additional National Guard troops in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. The troops would assist civilian authorities by providing logistics, intelligence and surveillance, and would remain under the control of the governors of those four states.
The National Guard already is participating in such roles in small numbers.
The Pentagon said it could sustain a National Guard force of up to 10,000 troops along the border by rotating the forces during regular training cycles, but that it's too early to discuss exact numbers. Any such use of the Guard would be temporary, it said.
"This is a job we can train our forces to perform," said Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank specializing in security issues. "We can utilize the panoply of sensors and detection devices and monitoring equipment and military hardware to ensure that we do not continue to be subjected to what amounts to an onslaught every single day."
Although generally under the control of state governors, National Guard units can be federalized by the president. Federalized units may serve domestically or be sent overseas.
Defense officials told The Associated Press that they have been asked to determine what military resources could be made available if needed, including what options are available for using the National Guard under either state or federal control. The strategy also would explore the legal guidelines for use of the military on U.S. soil, the officials said.
Active-duty U.S. troops are barred from domestic law enforcement by a Reconstruction-era law known as Posse Comitatus, but National Guard troops under state control can perform some law enforcement functions.
Earlier Friday, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, told CNN Espanol that he would support calling in the National Guard if necessary to secure the border, but that the states should make that decision.
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Republican_Man
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| Fri May 12, 2006 8:01 pm |
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Definitely. I am VERY glad to hear this news. I hope it materializes. We need it, now more than ever.
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Theresa
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| Sat May 13, 2006 4:33 pm |
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In the AOL poll, I voted yes. Along with 87% of the other voters.
(That it was a good idea)
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Republican_Man
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| Sat May 13, 2006 4:46 pm |
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Well, I'm not surprised, on either front. Usually you're for good security measures  and most Americans are for securing our southern border, including be placing the Guard down there.
It's a necessity, and America knows it, but the politicians and Mexico fear it.
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Starbuck
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| Sat May 13, 2006 5:58 pm |
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Because having armed forces on our bored sends such a great message.....  ...... do either of you want to pick oranges or clean toilets for a living?
I didn't think so.......
(I did NOT mean it to come out as racist as that sounded)
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Theresa
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| Sat May 13, 2006 6:12 pm |
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| Starbuck wrote: | Because having armed forces on our bored sends such a great message..... ...... do either of you want to pick oranges or clean toilets for a living?
I didn't think so.......
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If that were the only job available to me? You bet your ass I would.
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borgslayer
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| Sat May 13, 2006 6:54 pm |
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The law must be followed and these illegals have no right to demand that law on immigration be abolish because they are suffering in poverty. Troops on the border is a good idea a very good I might add.
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