Obama weighs sending National Guard to border

CNN ^ | July 24, 2014 | By Halimah Abdullah, CNN

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The Obama administration, after initially resisting the idea, is weighing whether to deploy National Guard troops to the southern border to help address a surge of migrant youth from Central America, many of them unaccompanied, a White House official told CNN.

The Pentagon and the Department of Health and Human Services sent a team earlier this week to assess Border Patrol efforts in the Rio Grande Valley, the official said, where tens of thousands of children have poured into the United States this year.

The administration's latest efforts in what most agree is a humanitarian crisis come as Washington struggles to address the matter with little optimism for a solution before Congress breaks for its month-long August recess.

[ArmstedFragg]

If the administration federalizes the National Guard, it’ll be with the knowledge that the Posse Comitatus law will thereupon prohibit them from performing any useful enforcement function.

In other words: It’s a Ploy.

[SMARTY]

That will be interesting if any of those guards personnel are hurt or killed in the process.

[kenmcg]

Obama’s National Guard will be diaper changers, set up soccer games, hand out clothing and candy etc. Whereas the only solution is to order the illegals to return and if they don’t chain them and send them back to Mexico.

[kenmcg]

Obama’s National Guard will be diaper changers, set up soccer games, hand out clothing and candy etc. Whereas the only solution is to order the illegals to return and if they don’t chain them and send them back to Mexico.