Obama is sending 1,200 National Guard

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1200 national guard troops works out to about one troop per every 2 miles if they work 24x7x365. If they work 40 hour shifts, it is about one every eight miles.

Which is why AZ has been asking for triple that amount

Why are they asking? Why doesn't the governor deploy the national guard? They report to her.

Probably because most of Arizona's National Guard is occupied with Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan.

[Anonymous]

Money. When called up the the Federal Government, the national guard is paid pursuant to Title 10 USC. That's federally funded. The state pays when the National Guard is called up by the governor.

Arizona (and border states) consider immigration enforcement a federal matter (and Obama and Holder keep saying the same thing), so why should the governor call up the guard and have his/her state's citizens pick up the tab for providing a service the Feds are obligated to do?