This article is discussing Obama's consideration to deploy troops to the U.S./ Mexican border. President Obama stated this past Sunday, “Obviously there have been calls to increase National Guard troops on the borders”. The troops may in fact be National Guard troops that Obama will be deploying. President Obama believes the U.S. should continue consulting with the Mexican government as much as possible. Obama believes the U.S. should work on reducing the demand for drug and reducing the cash flow and gun distribution and he voiced that the violence along the Mexican American border is creating a serious threat to any communities that reside along the border; Obama said this problem has “gotten out of hand.” Obama also believes we should increase our personnel, surveillance equipment in order to help Mexico in their assistance to us.
I'm glad that the President is working on fixing this issue, however I feel like there are more pressing issues, such as with our current economic status, that he personally (along with several other expects) should be working on. obama even stated that he does not feel there is a threat with this issue so I am wondering why he himself is dealing with this issue and not with more pressing issues that do in fact cause a threat to the American people. Regardless, of the so-called pressing importance of this issue, I am pleased to see that he is trying to carry out such a cooperative relationship with our neighbor, Mexico.
I have not been following this particular subject, but it would be interesting to see how long it took President Obama to react to the issue and how long it will take for him to stop considering his options and to react to the issue at hand.
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Well as the President said on TV the other day when asked why he had't responded to something, he said I like to know what I am talking about before I speak. So its hopeful that a slow response was because he was getting to know more information about the subject..
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