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 News from Around the Americas | June 2006 
Schwarzenegger to Order Troops to Border
 Aaron C. Davis - Associated Press
| | President Vicente Fox, pictured here with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on 25 May 2006, touted the importance of immigrants and said they deserved the immigration reform bill passed by the US Senate a day earlier. (AFP/Justin Sullivan |
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger agreed Thursday to send the California National Guard to the Mexican border, ending a 17-day standoff with the Bush administration, a Schwarzenegger spokesman said.
The two sides had been at odds over whether California Guardsmen would join the effort to bolster the Border Patrol and who would pay for it.>
They reached an agreement under which California will contribute about 1,000 Guardsmen for border duty and the federal government will pick up the full cost, said Schwarzenegger spokesman Adam Mendelsohn.
However, in a separate act that was not part of the agreement with the federal government, Schwarzenegger will sign an executive order that ends the California National Guard's participation on Dec. 31, 2008, state officials said.
All together, President Bush has proposed to send 6,000 National Guardsmen to the U.S. border with Mexico. The overall cost of the multiyear deployment has been put at more than $1 billion.
"This allows us to participate in the plan to secure the nation's border while also addressing the concerns the governor had raised," Mendelsohn said. |
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