June 12, 2008
Second Thoughts on Pulling the Guard From the Border
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD

NOGALES, Ariz. — Swooping low over the Mexican border in her Blackhawk helicopter, Chief Warrant Officer Christina Engh-Schappert of the Virginia National Guard spots ... nothing. No sign of the migrants who would congregate in the washes for the mad dash to the United States. No clusters of people hiding in the bushes. Nobody in the throes of dehydration and heat exhaustion.

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