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Obama to send 1200 troops to US-Mexico border

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Wednesday, May 26, 2010 3:40 AM

... fully loaded, safety off...

AZ's recent "squeaky wheel" law seems to have generated some activity:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-05-25-obama-immigration_N
.htm?csp=hf

"A month after Arizona passed an immigration law that reignited a national debate, President Obama is sending up to 1,200 National Guard troops to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border.
The troops will be a "bridge to longer-term enhancements" on the Southwestern border, helping with intelligence and surveillance while additional Border Patrol agents are trained, Obama's national security adviser, James Jones, said in a letter to Senate Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich.

Obama will also request $500 million for border protection and law enforcement, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., said."

Plus:

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/arizona-immigration-law-feds-reverse-law/stor
y?id=10746964

""This bill breaks the trust with our communities," L.A. police chief Charlie Bick told USA Today.

Police chiefs from across the country, including three from Arizona , will meet with Attorney General Eric Holder in Washington today to share their concerns over Arizona's controversial immigration law.

The 10 chiefs, from major cities including Los Angeles , Houston and Phoenix, argue that the law stretches already-limited resources and could intimidate crime victims and witnesses and keep them from coming forward.

Attorney General Holder has said in the past that he doesn't think the law is a good idea, but he doesn't believe it is racist. He is considering whether to file a federal lawsuit challenging the Arizona law. Five similar suits have already been filed."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/illegal-immigration-fact-check-mayhem-u
s-mexico-border/story?id=10690707&page=2

Deportations are up and crime is down:

"U.S. Border Towns Report Low, Declining Crime Rates
Meanwhile, Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained and deported a record 387,790 unauthorized immigrants across the U.S. in 2009, and is on pace to set a new record in 2010.

And the growing number of deportations comes as the overall size of the U.S. illegall immigrant population -- 62 percent of which hails from Mexico -- continues to decline. The U.S. unauthorized population in 2009 was 10.8 million, down from a peak of 11.8 million in 2007.

In many of the U.S. border communities themselves, local law enforcement officials report violent- and property-crime rates that have fallen over the past year, and, in several cases, are among the lowest in the country.

Cities like Tucson; Chula Vista, California ; and Lardeo, Texas , have all seen year-over-year drops in violent crime, murder, and rape. El Paso, Texas, continues to have one of the lowest rates of violent crime of all U.S. cities, just behind Honolulu, according to the latest FBI Uniform Crime Report."

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Wednesday, May 26, 2010 6:28 AM

KANEMAN

Sure. It's to bad they can only look at the flood of Mexicans slipping over and under the fences....Nice gesture Mr. president!!!.....Well, it's true.......

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Wednesday, May 26, 2010 6:34 AM

BYTEMITE

I get this most disturbing feeling that having troops on the border is less about keeping people out, and more about keeping people in.

I also suspect this is riot control under a more popular guise.

How long until Obama declares a federal state of emergency? "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."

We got our "rebellion" AND our "invasion." ._.

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Wednesday, May 26, 2010 12:31 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Ayep, that stuck out at me too.

But it's funny, the righties demand Obama do something like this, and then have the nerve to turn right around and start bitching at him for doing it - the partisanship coming off that is so obvious it's laughable.

You wanted the troops, you got em, now shut up.
Meh.

-F

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Wednesday, May 26, 2010 12:56 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Cue rightie-mighty-whiteys to start bitching about the wasteful government spending involved in...

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Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:01 PM

WHOZIT

Anything to draw attention away from the growing "BRIBE" scandal.

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Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:04 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

This is how Mexicans treat their police officers...
www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&q=mexico%20police%20decapita
ted&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw

Great. One soldier to pick up trash on 5 miles of unfenced, unmarked farmland. No bullets nor arrests allowed.

One military base has 5,000 to 30,000 troops. Best to relocate US military bases to the border with 500,000 troops. 200,000 US troops are now growing heroin in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Or they can arrest Saddam Hussein Obama Bin Laden Soetoro, for being a citizen of the British Empire, Kenya and Indonesia, as required by AZ law.

$24,000 Rolex stolen from US citizen by TSA airport goons
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/specials/weirdflorida/blog/2010/0
5/woman_sues_after_rolex_goes_mi_1.html