News From the Border: General: Guardsmen did not flee

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, January 18, 2007

General: Guardsmen did not flee

B. POOLE

Published: 01.18.2007

National Guardsmen carried loaded M-16 rifles when they were approached by armed men near Sasabe on Jan. 3, but they backed off because they were following rules agreed upon by border states and the federal government, the National Guard's top general in Arizona told the Tucson Citizen in a recent interview.

They did not flee, said Maj. Gen. David P. Rataczak, commander of National Guard troops in Arizona.

"They left because that's what they were taught to do," Rataczak said.

Labels: Illegal Crossing, National Guard