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.

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Local Guard on standby

By NORMA A. AGUILAR, Staff Writer
BRIANNA LUSK PHOTO

A National Guard official confirmed local units are on standby for deployment to the U.S.-Mexico border but declined comment on whether any guardsmen have been assigned to the Imperial Valley.

“We are on standby,” said Sgt. Wenceslao Trejo of the Army National Guard unit in El Centro. “We are waiting for orders from the high command.”

During a primetime broadcast Monday, President George W. Bush called for comprehensive immigration reform and outlined a plan to assign 6,000 guardsmen and women to the southern United States borders. President George W. Bush is expected to visit Yuma on Friday to check on conditions at the border.

Vincent Bond, spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said discussions are under way between state and federal agencies to determine when and where deployments will take place.

“At this point, we are coordinating with the Department of Defense,” Bond said. “There will be details that need to be worked out to carry out the plan the president has outlined.”

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