It’s official…National Guard will
not be allowed to stop illegal aliens
Immigration Reform ExaminerDave Gibsonhttp://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-35821-Immigration-Reform-Examiner~y2010m8d10-Its-officialNational-Guard-will-not-be-allowed-to-stop-illegal-aliens
During a Friday press conference, U.S. National Guard Bureau of Communications Jack Harrison announced that the 1,200 National Guard troops that are supposed to be sent to the U.S./Mexican border “will not be doing direct law enforcement.”
Harrison described their duty along the dangerous border to a reporter with CNS News, saying: “The two mission sets are criminal analysts and enter-identification teams.” He continued: “I can tell you that guardsmen will not be doing direct law enforcement on the southwest border.”
So, just as we suspected…the National Guard troops will be used as file clerks and observers, trained to retreat or step aside when drug and human smugglers invade this country.
Of course, we have seen this type of useless political window dressing before.
President Bush announced in 2006 that he was sending National Guard units to the Mexican border to assist with border enforcement.
However, before issuing the order, he placed a phone call to then- Mexican President Vicente Fox, to reassure him that he was not “militarizing the border.”
Bush made good on his promise to Fox with the hamstrung rules of engagement under which the Guardsmen were operating.
On January 3, 2007, an armed paramilitary group of six to eight men, crossed the border into the United States and over ran a National Guard post located near Sasabe, AZ. The Guardsmen from Tennessee quickly packed up their equipment, jumped back into their truck, and fled the scene. That sorry action by the Guardsmen clearly demonstrated what our president instructed them to do…NOTHING!
Tennessee National Guard spokesman Randy Harris told the Associated Press: “The soldiers did exactly what their mission was, to pull back if they’re approached by armed personnel coming across the border.”
In an award ceremony which was closed to the press, the Tennessee National Guardsmen involved were presented with achievement medals for their actions described their spokesman as a “tactical retreat.”
The office of then Gov. Janet Napolitano (D-AZ) released a report to the Associated Press which praised the Tennessee National Guard unit for fleeing the scene in the face of an armed incursion into the United States. The report said: “We see this as a triumph of the training, discipline, and professionalism of the Guardsmen performing their mission.”
The current Guard deployment under Obama is scheduled to last up to one year, and promises to be just as pointless and embarrassing as the last.
