A National Affair

     As of late Romney has been getting flak for wanting to invoke 1000 National Guard to the US-Mexico border. This news was initially leaked to The Monitor by anonymous sources under the title, "Gov. Rick Perry to deploy 1,000 National Guard troops to RGV," and confirmed when Fox News interviewed him on TV, which can be found on Youtube following this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAwrEtpIBfU. Now, I actually agree with Romney that the border needs manpower and help; I also agree that the National Guard is a valid resource to help the boarder. However, just not for the reasons of a giant display of power. Romney said in his interview, "What we’re talking about now is sending the message back now so we can staunch the bleeding..." On the other hand, he does mention why I think the Guard should be sent to the border which in his words are, "It’s important to do that because this flood of children is pulling away the border patrol from their normal duties of keeping bad people — keeping the drug cartels. They’re being distracted. So, that is a very obvious that I would suggest to you that those National Guard troops should come play an important role." This is the important reason, in my opinion, for sending aid to the border, because according to CBS DFW in an article titled "Overrun By Immigrants, Border Agents Doing Paperwork Instead Of Patrolling" Congressman Henry Cuellar tells CBS DFW, "Almost 40 percent of the Border Patrol Agents are not at the border they’re actually filling out paperwork, transporting, feeding, moving these folks around." Considering it's been a month since then I can only imagine the situation is worse. Yet, it appears to be worse as Town Hall released their article "EXCLUSIVE: Photos Show Drugs Pouring Over Southern Arizona Border as Agent Resources are Overwhelmed" it shows you pictures of drug runners sneaking past the border while border agents are doing paper work. On top of that, the drug cartel is getting more courageous as Fox News reports, in their article "Cartels suspected as high-caliber gunfire sends Border Patrol scrambling on Rio Grande," on first hands accounts of the cartel fire rounds at border the suppress them long enough for smugglers to get children across. So, I believe the situation is dire enough to rally the National Guard to the border, especially if border fire continues or drug runners find more success. Do you?