Guard Troop Withdrawl on the Border

The heaviest withdrawls are happening now. The idea is that new Border Agent hires will be their replacements. Since the government is in charge I wonder how many years it will take to build the entire fence. Or does that mean it won’t ever be completed.

National Guard troops stationed along California’s border with Mexico are being scaled back, as are Guard troops elsewhere along the southern border.

By the end of next month, only about 600 troops – roughly half the number deployed to the California-Mexico border earlier this year – will be left assisting the Border Patrol with air and land surveillance, engineering and other non-law enforcement duties in the agency’s San Diego and El Centro sectors.

Guard troops have been leaving gradually since February, but the heaviest departures began last month, a National Guard spokeswoman in San Diego said yesterday.

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