Domestic Policy

Where is the National Guard?

July 1, 2006 ⋅  E-Mail Article ⋅  Print Article ⋅ Post a comment

President Bush vowed to enact “comprehensive” immigration reform that will help secure our country, mainly its borders. The Bush Administration had planned to deploy up to 2,500 National Guard troops to our nations border by the end of June. But where are the troops?

According to military officials in the four most southern Border States, the Bush Administration has only sent fewer than 1,000 additional troops to secure our country’s borders. Well below half of the 2,500 National Guardsmen it planned to have on the Mexican border by the end of June.

If the Bush Administration is having a hard time mustering up ~1,000 National Guardsmen now, how in the world do they plan on providing the 6,000 additional troops President Bush promised in his Immigration Reform address?

Is this a glimpse of how the Bush Administration will handle the other issues facing President Bush’s “Comprehensive” Immigration Reform?

Here are just some of the other issues the “Comprehensive” Immigration Reform is to address:

• Must Hold Employers To Account For The Workers They Hire.
• Must Help Us Secure Our Borders
• Must Create a Temporary Worker Program That Helps Us Secure the Border
• Must Address the Reality That Millions of Illegal Immigrants Are Here Already
• Must Honor the Great American Tradition of the Melting Pot

Do you think the Bush Administration will be able to pull it off? So far it doesn’t look likely.

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