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.

Monday, May 15, 2006

Bush to call for National Guard on Mexico border

From Reuters

Mon May 15, 2006 8:11 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush is expected to call for thousands of National Guard troops along the U.S.-Mexico border to help curtail illegal immigration as debate over the divisive issue heats up.

Bush is to deliver an Oval Office address to the nation on Monday evening at 8 p.m./0000 GMT to announce tougher border security measures in a speech devoted to immigration, a challenge faced by both Republicans and Democrats in the mid-term election year.

Bush backs a guest-worker program that would let immigrants work temporarily in the United States, which has cost him support among some conservatives who view the idea as a type of amnesty for illegal immigrants -- a characterization Bush rejects.

The president is expected to outline immigration reform proposals, including deployment of several thousand National Guard troops in a support role along the 2,000-mile border, but less than the 10,000 that had been talked about at the Pentagon, a U.S. official said on Sunday.

posted by missionaryman | 7:48 AM

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