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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
there are nation guard troops already here? The ones that Bush sent are gone, what troops are you talking about?
I just brought up that because it's a joke that we make people take off their shoes to get on a plane and yet let people walk into the country
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We have 8,000 people serving in the AZ national guard, not all are active and not all are at the border that are active, but she damn sure has the power to make them all active and at the border, legally.
The problem is she and her crew of shit stains ran the state in the ground and ignored the illegal immigration problem for so long, that now we're like 40 billion in the hole, so bad our rest stops can't even stay open. She wants Obama to pay for it though....that's the "only" issue she has - and it allows her to turn it into politics.
If it was really about security, border security, whatever.... she would fire up those troops herself and pay for them. If it's "that" bad.... it's jacked up, yes.. more/better security is needed - and she is the key to making it happen and proving it works.
Bush did kind of do something right when he sent the 6k troops here, however they didn't go to the border. They were stand-ins for our BP and immigration agents, to build more staff, train more, better, etc. We increased 40% in BP agents alone to just over 16,000 - the problem today is we can't find'em as fast as we need them.
I think the shoe crap is ridiculous, but history wise... the southern border hasn't produced a problem with terrorists and planes have, and so has the northern border.