Why didn't Bush just deploy the Guard immediately to protect our borders? The Posse Comitatus Act does not stop him. He does have full constitutional power to deploy any troops needed to protect our borders.

I guess it is obvious but he is just trading any possible deployment of the Guard for the passage of the immigration bill he wants. Now, it appears that the house might not be so kind to him as the Senate. So, does he back down on the Guard deployment? He knows that each week we wait more try to rush across the border. But what may be against him is that the borders states are doing more...not less to secure their borders.

If Bush does not get the bill he wants do you think he will still deploy the Guard? Or maybe he dares not to since he promised.