3000 troops to be put on Texas border

[Horse with no Name]

http://www.dallasnews.com/
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The troops are to come from the four border states – California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas – but those states' governors may also seek Guard troops from other states.

No Texas National Guard troops were called up Tuesday, said Tech. Sgt. Gregory Ripps, a spokesman. Ripps said the Guard is in the planning phases, but provided no details.

Perry spokeswoman Rachel Novier said the president will call up the troops and pay costs associated with their deployment, but they will remain under state control.

[MadMaddie]

1. Can't the states do something to stop the reserve units

from being deployed on the border?

[Horse with no Name]

2. The way that I read it is

that Bush has committed them and the federal government, not the states, will pay them. Therefore, they are really under his control.
I really didn't think this was allowed unless a state of emergency was called, however, I think nowadays if they can do it without anyone saying anything--it is considered "allowed".

[MadMaddie]

3. Damn.....there are so many things wrong with this plan...

[Ms. Clio]

4. Just a few months ago, DHS head Chertoff dismissed this idea

http://public.cq.com/public/20060515_homeland_15nationalguard.html">DHS Does About-Face In Backing Use of National Guard to Seal Border
By Patrick Yoest, CQ Staff

In December of 2005, Fox News talking head Bill O’Reilly floated an unlikely — even brash — idea to the Homeland Security secretary to seal off the porous southwest border.

“Why don’t you put the National Guard on the border to back up the border patrol and stop the bleeding, and then start to increase the Border Patrol, the high-tech and all of that?” O’Reilly asked.

Michael Chertoff, in those relatively calmer days before mass pro-immigration rallies, heated immigration reform politics in the Senate and cellar-dwelling opinion polls for President Bush, dismissed the idea out of hand.

“Well, the National Guard is really, first of all, not trained for that mission,” Chertoff told O’Reilly. “I mean, the fact of the matter is the border is a special place. There are special challenges that are faced there.”