National Guard Border Drawdown: The Administration’s Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Written by usopenborders.com Friday, 27 April 2012 04:24

Last week, former presidential candidate and Texas Governor Rick Perry blasted the White House for reducing the number of National Guard troops on the country’s border with Mexico. Even peak deployment was only 250 troops (Perry asked for 1,000) for the entire 1,200-mile Texas border, which now will have no troops on the ground and a handful of helicopters monitoring the border instead. The president says he’s eliminating ground troops primarily due to low morale and cost, which will be reduced from $120 million for the scant 1,200 troops that were on the ground along the entire border to $60 million for a handful of helicopters in the sky. California — where there are reports every week of huge drug busts on the border — only had 264 National Guard troops. Now it will have to make do with 14.

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