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May 13, 2006
We're in Charge of the Borders..
So ah..Use state National Guard troops to protect it. So goes the logic of the top minds of the Bush administration. USANG troops, many freshly returned from lengthy overseas deployments, are now gonna be tasked with "border security". And no doubt at state taxpayers expense too. Go figger these guys in Washington.
How many times over past few years have the citizens of California, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico tried to deal with immigration issues through legislation and ballot initiatives only to be rebuffed by federal courts? ("Immigration is a federal matter you people!) So now the Bush administration, in a sad and transparent attempt to shore up what's left of its conservative base, is moving on the immigration issue by passing the buck for a very likely to fail border security program that it isn't even willing to fund. Sheesh.
Posted by Ali Massoud at May 13, 2006 10:34 AM
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Of course, the national guard is all over there fighting in the middle east. This poses a logistical manpower problem. Maybe the feds plan to cheaply outsource these border patrol jobs to immigrant Mexicans?
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at May 16, 2006 08:46 AM
Ironically that is a very sound and market-based solution Sisyphus. Hah!
Posted by: Ali_Massoud at May 20, 2006 12:53 AM
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