Brewer asks feds for added National Guard troops

by The Associated Press on Mar 12, 2009, under Local

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PHOENIX – Gov. Jan Brewer has asked the federal government to send more National Guard troops to Arizona’s border with Mexico to assist in anti-drug efforts and other duties.

In a letter Wednesday to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the governor requested an additional 250 National Guard members. Currently, 150 troops are at the Arizona-Mexico border.

Brewer spokesman Paul Senseman says the request was prompted by a combination of Arizona’s long-standing problems from immigrant and drug smuggling and rising violence in Mexico’s war with drug cartels.

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