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.

Friday, August 04, 2006

Governors visit troops along border

BY MARK RANDALL, SUN STAFF WRITER
PHOTO BY JACOB LOPEZ/THE SUN
Aug 3, 2006

SAN LUIS, Ariz. — Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius stood at the U.S. border and proclaimed that only a summer in Arizona could make a Kansas summer seem cool.

She and Gov. Janet Napolitano visited Kansas National Guard troops on Thursday.

Fifty-five Kansas troops have joined Kentucky Guard members in building a section of security fence along the border as part of Operation Jumpstart.

The governors thanked them for their service and reminded them of the importance of their mission.

"This is our first Kansas unit to be requested, so I wanted to come and get a briefing from the governor on immigration issues that the border governors are dealing with, and get a sense of what our guys are doing," Sebelius said.

Napolitano told the troops that Arizona is being strangled by illegal immigration and that the U.S. Border Patrol couldn't secure the border without help from the units.

"There were over 600,000 apprehensions in Arizona last year," Napolitano said, referring to illegal immigrants.

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