The first 33 are being assigned surveillance work, according to Lt. Valentine Castillo. Plans are to continue training a new batch and deploying them every week until there are 532 soldiers stationed in the area, a goal the Guard hopes to achieve by Oct. 1. Mario Escalante of Customs and Border Patrol said the soldiers will be doing more than simply looking for people trying to enter the country illegally. The deployment, part of 1,200 soldiers sent to the border by the president for up to a year, comes as the Obama administration is under fire, mostly by Republicans, for...