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June 30, 2006
6,000 Troops on Border? Well, Not Really
Posted by Dave Blount at June 30, 2006 1:58 PM
Stemming the invasion and colonization of the Southwest by hordes of penniless Mexicans continues to be anything but a priority for our government. When Bush agreed to send a token 6,000 National Guard troops to the border to provide support to the Border Patrol as the Minutemen have been doing, even that hollow gesture was enough to drive down illegal border crossings. But the improvement will be temporary, as word spreads south of the border that our bureaucrats have no sincere intention of defending our territory.
According to Bush's promises, 2,500 National Guard troops were to be on the border by the end of June. He's got 10 hours left and there are fewer than 1,000. All 50 states were supposed to send troops, but few are fully cooperating. Others whine that they have more important uses for the troops, like holding them in reserve to deal with forest fires and bad weather.
The full 6,000 are supposed to be in place by the end of July. That deadline will be missed also. But 6,000 is now considered to be a "maximum" — apparently meaning that there won't be more than 6,000 troops, but there may very well be fewer. Bush may as well have said he was sending 50,000 troops. At least that would be enough, were he actually to send them and let them actively defend the country from invasion.
Where there is no will, there is no way Mexico will be stopped from exporting its poverty into the U.S. Unless we find a way to hold the government accountable, this problem will inevitably fester into a crisis of historic proportions.
