BUSH SENDS 120 BORDER PATROL AGENTS TO GUARD IRAQ'S BORDER

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Governors Demand Border Security - Bush Pulls 120 Border Patrol Agents to Guard Iraq's Border!

Drug-related violence in Mexico is spilling over our southern border. Now the governors of New Mexico and Arizona are demanding the federal government do something to protect that border. The governors of California, Arizona and New Mexico, states devastated by escalating violence and unchecked illegal immigration are demanding quick action by the White House and Congress. New Mexico's Bill Richardson and Arizona's Janet Napolitano wrote President Bush stating, "very little is being done at the federal level to find a permanent, workable solution to the underlying immigration problem in our country." The governors also say "no real action is being proposed" to deal with border violence. Plans to build a few hundred miles of border fencing are "inadequate" and "we are very concerned" the White House will pull National Guard troops off the border before Border Patrol agents are trained to replace them and the governors say "it makes no sense" to transfer 120 veteran border patrol agents to train border guards in Iraq. Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM) said: "To train those guards that are so hard to get and move them away from the American border for the Iraqi border, 120 of them, is just the height of a lack of sensible priorities. It seems Iraqi security is more important than American security." All three border governors support the idea of so-called comprehensive immigration reform, but they all make clear the federal government is not living up to the border security component of that plan.