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No National Guard Troops to Arizona, For Now

11:59 am By Maegan La Mala · arizona|Immigration|military · Comments Off

1 Aug 2010

National Guard troops were scheduled to go to the Mexico U.S border today, under order of President Obama in effort to put more “boots of the ground” against immigrants and essentially supporting SB1070. According to El Diario/La Prensa, this deployment, which would have sent over 500 National Guard officials to the Mexico-Arizona border, has been delayed.

Officially, according to National Guard spokesperson, the reason is because they are still looking through the applications for medical and other eligibility issues. Another possibility, that the National Guard would never admit to, is that they don’t have enough people applying for open positions.

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Bushborder.jpgReading the headline of a recent article posted on the CBS Evening News website might lead one to envision scores of armed Mexicans shooting Border Patrol Agents. The headline alarmingly reads:Border Patrol Agents Under Attack Violence Against Agents In Yuma, Ariz. Up To 154 In First Six Months Of Fiscal Year. Reading further though, the weapons being used to “attack” are revealed as rocks.

Along the desert stretch where Arizona and Mexico meet, there’s more flying in the air than just dust. There are rocks flying back and forth toward the border agents, CBS News correspondent Kelly Cobiella reports.
It’s part of a nightly bombardment of Border Patrol vehicles and agents all along the southwestern border.

Of course getting hit with a rock has its potential consequences but don’t Border Patrol Agents have guns. Does this
accurately represents the locus of border violence?

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