Thread: Natl Guard To Withdraw Half Of Forces Assisting U.S. Border

Withdrawing troops from the border with skeletor claiming that he has a gut feeling that Al Qaeda is going to attempt an attack on the US. Does this mean that bush boy is an Al Qaeda operative?

This withdrawal might say more about the scarcity of our troops than the situation on the border.

Originally Posted by Nouveauxpoor

This withdrawal might say more about the scarcity of our troops than the situation on the border.

Personally, I don't think there is anywhere these troops could be that would be more necessary to protect America than on our borders right now.

Something is going to happen - not sure what.

It could be Mexico is going to export its internal war to the US.

It could be the 'financial difficulties' the government is training for and they will be needed for riot control.

It could be the PResident wants some of this to happen and he can declare martial law.

Or it could be he is having a trantrum because he didn't get his way.

Actually, his 'bosses' may be having a tantrum because he didn't get done what he was supposed to get done.

Originally Posted by nntrixie

Originally Posted by Nouveauxpoor

This withdrawal might say more about the scarcity of our troops than the situation on the border.

Personally, I don't think there is anywhere these troops could be that would be more necessary to protect America than on our borders right now.

Something is going to happen - not sure what.

It could be Mexico is going to export its internal war to the US.

It could be the 'financial difficulties' the government is training for and they will be needed for riot control.

It could be the PResident wants some of this to happen and he can declare martial law.

Or it could be he is having a trantrum because he didn't get his way.

Actually, his 'bosses' may be having a tantrum because he didn't get done what he was supposed to get done.

I would add to your list the possibility that the troups could be needed in Iraq.

One year later, Guard troops along 4 border states to be cut

Web Posted: 07/13/2007 10:45 PM CDT

Mariano Castillo
Express-News Border Bureau

LAREDO — President Bush's strategy for bolstering border security by sending 6,000 National Guard troops to aid the Border Patrol turns a year old this weekend. With that anniversary, the process of drawing down the number of troops here also begins.
By Sept. 1, the number of soldiers assigned to Operation Jump Start in all four border states will be halved, to 3,000, National Guard Capt. Dick Jinks said.

The reduction was planned from the beginning, Jinks said.

"We actually started a couple of weeks ago," said Jinks, spokesman for the operation. "We stopped replacement operations in anticipation of these numbers."

The idea behind Operation Jump Start was to fortify the number of boots on the ground while thousands of new Border Patrol agents were being trained, he said.

National Guard troops were not allowed to make immigration arrests, but freed up more border agents for the field by taking over camera rooms and secretarial jobs and helping man checkpoints.

Both the National Guard and Border Patrol praised the first phase of the two-year program as a success, even if the program had suffered some black eyes, including three guardsmen charged with using their positions to smuggle undocumented immigrants past a Border Patrol checkpoint.

The trio, based in Laredo, are accused of using a National Guard-leased van to transport the human cargo, communicating through text messages and getting through the checkpoint by pretending to be on official business.

The accused soldiers — Sgt. Julio Cesar Pacheco, Sgt. Clarence Hodge Jr. and Pfc. Jose Rodrigo Torres — pleaded not guilty Thursday.

"There have been human beings being human beings," Jinks said. "But we track that and we understand that these things happen, so we have to take the bad with the good."

He added: "Our customer is Customs and Border Protection and everything we've heard from them has been positive."

In Texas, the number of guardsmen will be reduced from about 1,500 to 900.

The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Artesia, N.M., has been pushed to its limits with the influx of Border Patrol trainees, but has coped with the load.

Since October of last year, 230 new agents have been assigned to the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol sector alone, spokesman Oscar Saldaña said.

His sector was prepared for the downsizing of its National Guard companions.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/ ... cc981.html


Clearly this was a frivilous effort to put a band-aid on the problem to hush the critics. The Bush Administration is handling the problem of illegal immigrants in the same manner they handled Katrina - ignore it and hope it will go away. His proposed legislation failed and he has since articulated no plan on how to proceed post-failure.