News From the Border: Bush to visit border near Yuma Monday

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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.

Saturday, April 07, 2007

Bush to visit border near Yuma Monday

The Arizona Republic

Published: 04.05.2007

President Bush is scheduled to return to Yuma on Monday - Gov. Janet Napolitano in tow - nearly one year after the announcement of Operation Jump Start and its roughly 6,000 National Guard soldiers to shore up the nation's southern border.

Days after announcing the Guard buildup in mid-May, Bush went to Yuma and spoke along the border in a heavily fortified spot, chain-link fence and concertina wire at his back. The message was clear: The president intended to crack down on illegal crossings.

But in the year or so since, Operation Jump Start has met with mixed reviews.

About 2,400 Guard soldiers are along Arizona's border on any given day and will be there for another year. Their two years at the border will give the Border Patrol time to recruit and train 9,000 new officers.

Officials, including Napolitano, say there has been a marked decrease in illegal crossings since the Guard arrived.

Bush visit will focus on border, immigration

Labels: Border Patrol, National Guard