US to deploy troops on Mexico border

• Spartaaaaa wrote on 2010-07-21 10:31

  US to deploy troops on Mexico border
  
  Press TV [1]
  July 20, 2010
  
  The US will start sending some 1,200 troops to its border with Mexico in August to help in monitoring and arresting illegal immigrants, officials say.
  
  The deployment is part of President Barack Obama’s border plan to reduce drug smuggling and human trafficking on the US-Mexican border.
  
  Obama asked for $500 million in supplemental funds from the Congress in late May to deploy more troops to secure the almost 3,200-kilometer (2,000-mile) border.
  
  The Army and Air National Guard troops “will provide direct support to federal law enforcement officers and agents working in high-risk areas to disrupt criminal organizations seeking to move people and goods illegally across the southwest border,” AFP quoted Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as saying on Monday.
  
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  Gen. Craig McKinley, commander of the National Guard, said that the troops will be trained in four border states, including California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, by September 1.
  
  Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon has expressed discontent with the decision.
  
  Mexico does not object to US plans to station troops along the border between the two nations as long as the soldiers do not arrest Mexicans trying to get into the United States, President Felipe Calderon said.
  
  “They have a commitment to uphold the law on the American side and not to use the National Guard for immigration purposes or to deal with immigration issues,” Calderon said.
  
  The announcement came as a controversial new Arizona immigration law, which takes effect July 29, allows police to ask anyone they suspect of being in the state illegally about their immigration status.
  
  The legislation is deemed racist, as it would allow law enforcement officers to single out individuals based on the individual’s appearance.
  
  The US government has sued Arizona to halt implementation. It says only the federal government can handle immigration issues.
  

  
  
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• Pocoyo wrote on 2010-07-21 11:11
  Cool.
• Bankai231 wrote on 2010-07-21 14:53
  Bout' dam time. I want a job soon.
• Hiccup wrote on 2010-07-21 15:13
  lmao how we gonna get low wage/benefits (if any) workers now D:
• Spartaaaaa wrote on 2010-07-21 17:07
  Of course, there are idiots out there playing the "race card" and delaying this...
• Axx wrote on 2010-07-21 17:36

  Quote from Spartaaaaa;99922:

  Of course, there are idiots out there playing the "race card" and delaying this...

  
  Well, duh. Most illegals [at this area] are Mexican (or Hispanic, whatever). Therefore any legislation aimed at reducing the number of illegals targets minorities. And if a minority group is impacted by the law, IT MUST BE RACIST. [/sarcasm for those with rNovice internet sarcasm detecting]
• Zid wrote on 2010-07-21 17:44
  Still not the best solution. And I don't think there will be, so long as the US is what it is to Mexico.
• Cucurbita wrote on 2010-07-21 18:18
  This is actually good.
  
  Illegal Immigration isn't the only thing we're stopping by deploying troops. We're putting a serious reduction on the transport of weapons and drugs that flow between the US and Mexico, which could really help the cartel problem below, along with the drug issues here. This is probably what they want to cut off the most. Its a serious problem.
  
  Illegal Immigration wasn't such a huge problem before, but with our economy the way it is now, and not enough jobs being around to fill everyone, it'll only become more and more difficult to let people through. In about 25 to 30 years though, they estimate that there will be more than enough jobs for immigration to become a necessity, so I'm all for this.
• Justified wrote on 2010-07-21 19:33

  Quote from Axx;99934:

  And if a [s]minority group is impacted by the[/s] law, IT MUST BE RACIST.

  
  
  Fixed.
• Remoraid wrote on 2010-07-21 19:44
  About time :x . Let's see what El Paso is going to do about this xD .
• Spartaaaaa wrote on 2010-07-21 20:20

  Quote from greenpepe;100018:

  About time :x . Let's see what El Paso is going to do about this xD .

  
  
  I suppose there will be much baaawwwwing from Felipe Calderon (whose immigration policy is much harsher than the US's btw) over this.
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-07-21 20:23
  The American border guards are nice compared to the Mexican border guards
• Serathx wrote on 2010-07-21 21:05
  About time. :l
  And of course someone's gonna play the racist card.
• Tokiko wrote on 2010-07-21 21:16

  Quote from Spartaaaaa;100052:

  I suppose there will be much baaawwwwing from Felipe Calderon (whose immigration policy is much harsher than the US's btw) over this.

  
  I'd like to know what it is O:
  
  I don't know why people would want to set foot in Mexico rather than to run away from "The man",man.
  I've seen so many documentaries on how violent Mexico is.
  And isn't Caulderon mean pot in spanish O:?
• Kayate wrote on 2010-07-21 21:21
  I'm Mexican and I think this is a good idea
  and also I lol'd at the Arizona being sued part