Thread: AZ: White House responds to Guard deployment call - NOT NOW

I don't understand how Gov. Richardson of NM sent his guard troops but AZ and TX haven't. Can anybody here explain?

Breaking News: White House responds to Guard deployment call

Posted: Apr 01, 2010 4:21 PM PDT
Updated: Apr 01, 2010 10:51 PM PDT
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White House responds to Guard deployment call
2:24
Reporter: Steve Nunez
Web Producer: Forrest Carr

TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - After a second day of trying, KGUN9 News has finally obtained a response from the White House on Governor Brewer's request to send the National Guard to patrol Arizona's border. While not directly addressing the deployment question, the statement promised that the administration will continue "monitoring" the situation.

On Wednesday KGUN9's Steve Nunez documented how Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has made five written requests for such a deployment over the last year and a half. The governor said none of those requests elicited a reply. Since the murder of prominent southeast Arizona rancher Robert Krentz on Saturday, many other politicians on both sides of the aisle, along with many ranchers and law enforcement officers, have echoed the governor's request. Nunez tried repeatedly to get a response from the White House to those calls on Wednesday. He spent the day being shuffled from one agency to the next and ended the day with a score of zero.

On Thursday Nunez tried again, retracing his steps and asking the same questions of many of the same people. Among the questions 9 On Your Side wants to know: What is the President's stance on sending troops to the border? Why has his administration simply ignored the requests from Arizona's governor? What does the President have to say to Arizona citizens and politicians who are now renewing that call and asking for his help?

By the end of the business day, Nunez was able to obtain this carefully worded statement from White House spokesman Adam Abrams: "The President is firmly committed to ensuring our borders are secure. It is why the Administration has taken important steps – including deploying additional law enforcement resources to reduce illegal flows across the border and supporting Mexico's efforts against drug trafficking organizations. We are carefully monitoring the situation and will continue to ensure that we are doing everything necessary to keep communities along the Southwest border safe."

The statement sidestepped the question of why the administration has simply ignored Governor Brewer. Adams told KGUN9 News that the statement quoted above is all the White House will have to say on this issue for now.

Calls for National Guard deployment erupted anew over the weekend following the Krentz murder. Someone shot Krentz to death Saturday at his ranch about 25 miles northeast of Douglas. Investigators have no suspects and no confirmed motive, but have said the most likely scenario is that Krentz encountered an illegal border crosser.

Ranchers along the border have been complaining for years that they're overrun with border crossers. On Sunday Cochise County Larry Dever confirmed that burglaries, home invasions and even kidnappings are now a routine occurrence along the border corridor.

In doing research for these stories, KGUN9 News found in its files a 1999 interview from a rancher in that area who lamented that no one was listening. It's the same complaint ranchers have today -- but in the wake of the Krentz murder, ranchers are making the complaint more forcefully. This time, at least some politicians are making a point of listening. On Wednesday night, hundreds of ranchers and area residents turned out in the border town of Portal to meet with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on the issue. Giffords, a Democrat, is among those calling for National Guard deployment.

On Thursday Nunez also pursued the story through the Department of Homeland Security, now headed by former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano. While she was governor, Napolitano had a reputation of being fairly accessible to citizens and the media. A department spokesman told Nunez today that if he wanted to question Napolitano about the border security situation in Arizona, he should put in a request, and expect to wait at least a month.

http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=12244731

They want us to be Over run. The Federal Government will do JUST ENOUGH to win a court case saying they are protecting us, but no more...

It is why the Administration has taken important steps – including deploying additional law enforcement resources to reduce illegal flows across the border and supporting Mexico's efforts against drug trafficking organizations.

"Illegal flows across the border" is not about border security, this is about guns going south. The Obama administration has pulled BP off the border and put them on gun watch.

What additional law enforcement?

February 2, 2010
President Cuts Border Security in Proposed Budget
http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-1013084.html#1013084

Administration to Cut 384 Agents from Mexican Border...
http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-957519.html#957519

What "illegal flows"? Obama is not stopping the illegal aliens as implied, he's more concerned about the guns and money going to Mexico.

This is the flow Obama is talking about southbound flows, not illegal aliens.
http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-1025450.html

Dixie

The FEDERAL GOV. will force American citizens to defend themselves and their own property. Sounds like it is time for a WELL ARMED MILITIA, formed by the citizens of the threatened towns. Too bad the Minuteman Patrol recently disbanded. We need more action, forcible action.
Unfortunately, patriotism is now punished in the U.S. Such militia groups, formed for mutual defense, are seen as extremists and murderers, rather than defenders. Civil war may be coming. When citizens of the U.S. are forbidden from protecting their own land and heritage, and the U.S. government refuses to protect American Sovereignty while prosecuting and villianizing the defenders, something is VERY WRONG.
The Drug cartels kidnap, rape, steal, murder, and advocate the killing of Border Patrol agents. Yet, if captured, they get all kinds of legal protection from "our" government, and theirs. But if one American Rancher shoots a Mexican, the lawyers, court, and U.S. gov. will do everything possible to ruin the rancher.

When citizens of the U.S. are forbidden from protecting their own land and heritage, and the U.S. government refuses to protect American Sovereignty while prosecuting and villianizing the defenders, something is VERY WRONG.
The Drug cartels kidnap, rape, steal, murder, and advocate the killing of Border Patrol agents. Yet, if captured, they get all kinds of legal protection from "our" government, and theirs. But if one American Rancher shoots a Mexican, the lawyers, court, and U.S. gov. will do everything possible to ruin the rancher.

This is the worst lack of protection for citizens our government has managed to provide in all my memory. It's true our government seems to be ignoring the safety of its own people.

THIS IS TREASON.

this moron needs to get outta the residence at 1600 penn avenue
and he needs to literally be thrown out

They are gearing up for amnesty. More voters.

Originally Posted by jamesw62

THIS IS TREASON.

this moron needs to get outta the residence at 1600 penn avenue
and he needs to literally be thrown out

DITTO!

What they need to do is file a congressional request! That way the feds have 14 days to respond!

Is it paranoid to wonder if it is not a coincidence that Mexican Drug Cartels now are emboldened enough to attack the Mexican army in a major city as far north as Monterrey (which used to be know as the "Boston of Mexico"!). Do you think they realize that Mexico is not able to stop their steady takeover, and that the United States has no interest in stopping their steady progression north? Could it possibly have been pre-planned for Calderon to stir up all this conflict with the drug cartels until civilian order in much of Mexico simply collapsed, the U.S./Mexican border was completely overrun (or "kicked in") by droves of Mexicans fleeing the resulting violence, resulting in a defacto merger of the United States with Mexico? I do not wish to believe that is true; however, the deafening silence on the part of our own government in the face of the growing climax of this decades-old situation is frightening. Since both Bush and Obama have used the National Guard rather than a national draft to fight their two wars, I don't believe the state governors any longer has enough state guard troops and equipment at home to temporarily protect their own borders themselves if they wanted to.

Drug Gangs Attack Army Bases Near the Border
http://www.alipac.us/ftopic-193557-0-da ... rasc-.html