Will this placate Arizonans? President Obama will announce on Tuesday plans to send 1,200 National Guardsmen to the Mexican border, plus he’ll request $500 million in funding for border enforcement. An official says the troops will be used “to provide intelligence; surveillance and reconnaissance support; intelligence analysis; immediate support to counternarcotics enforcement; and training capacity until Customs and Border Patrol can recruit and train additional officers and agents to serve on the border.”
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Obama to Send 1,200 Troops to Border
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