National Guard To Patrol Border

So Bush will send National Guard troops to police the Mexico-US border. And what is likely to happen?

The US president, George Bush, is today expected to announce proposals to use thousands of national guard troops to help secure the border with Mexico.

Mr Bush is set to reveal the plans - intended to reduce the number of illegal immigrants entering the US - in a televised address.

It is believed several thousand troops could be sent to the 2,000-mile border, but a White House official said the number was likely to be less than the 10,000 quoted in some reports.

Remember Kent State? How about this? Yep that's just what we need, open season on brown folk.

Guns are dangerous, duh. Its always wrong to employ them when the only people around are innocents or, at most, minor law breakers. Crossing a border isn't a capital offense. Mexico isn't invading US.

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