Posts Tagged ‘national guard at border’
No National Guard Troops to Arizona, For Now
11:59 am By Maegan La Mala · arizona|Immigration|military · Comments Off
1 Aug 2010National 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.
Crossing the Border is More Expensive Thanks to Immigration “Reform”
9:37 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Money · Comments Off
19 Jun 2006
President Bush’s move to send National Guard troops to the U.S./Mexico border may be working to slow down people crossing the border in an unusual way. It has been reported that the cost “smugglers” are charging to help those cross the border has gone up in recent weeks by as much as $2,000. This sharp increase in prices has caused people hoping to enter the U.S. to postpone or cancel their trips until they can save more money and has led others to try and make the crossing on their own, without help. Francisco Garcia, a volunteer at a migrant shelter in Altar, a farming town of 7,000 that has become a major gathering point for those heading to Arizona said:
With all this new security, it is obvious the migrant flow will have to move to more dangerous routes, and smugglers are using this argument to increase their prices.
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