News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Arizona Guard are already on border

Jon Kamman
The Arizona Republic
May. 16, 2006 12:00 AM

Arizona's National Guard has been helping to improve security along the Mexican border for more than five years and has partnered with law enforcement agencies on anti-narcotics and anti-terrorism enforcement since 1988.

Meanwhile, 742 members of the state's Army and Air Force Guard, or 10 percent of Arizona's 7,400-person contingent, are on active duty in support of the war in Iraq. That will increase to 1,100 by the end of summer, said Maj. Paul Aguirre, spokesman for the Guard.

Five of the state's Army Guard members are assigned full time to work with the Border Patrol in preparing to put about 600 Guard personnel to work this year on field engineering projects during their required 15 days of concentrated training.

The troops, mostly from out of state, will perform such duties as installing light poles near the Yuma crossing, building fences west of the Douglas port of entry and improving patrol roads.

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