Troop Trauma

by Julian Aguilar
June 2, 2010

The expected deployment of 1,200 National Guard troops to the border has angered border advocacy groups, which fear the militarization of their communities will damage the local economy and negatively impact their way of life.

Border residents allege that elected officials in Washington are succumbing to political pressure. Despite the drug violence across the border in Mexico, they say, their communities are remarkably safe.

“Proposals to deploy the National Guard are ill-conceived and motivated by electoral politics rather than border realities,â€