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April 27, 2009

Report: US Considering Deploying National Guard Troops to Mexico Border
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The Washington Post reports the Pentagon and Homeland Security
Department are developing contingency plans to send National Guard
troops to the US-Mexican border under a $350 million initiative that
would expand the US military’s role in the drug war. Last week, the
governors of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas sent a joint
letter to Congress requesting additional troops for the four
Southwestern border states under the National Guard Counterdrug Program.



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