Arizona Gov. Demands Border Enforcement -- na Gov. Demands Border Enforcement

Arizona Gov. Demands Border Enforcement
Calls For More National Guard (ABP found none)

Vehicle tracks across Colorado River near Yuma, January 18, 2008. (See story about proposed moat) -- American Border Patrol reports that during its most recent aerial survey it could find no National Guard lookout stations along border in Arizona. "All of the National Guard stations along the Colorado River had been removed," said Glenn Spencer of ABP.

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix -- March 13
Napolitano says U.S. needs to offset border fence delay
    In light of news that the "virtual" fence along Arizona's southern border won't be operational until 2011, Gov. Janet Napolitano has asked Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to deploy National Guard troops there in the meantime.
    Those troops, stationed along the border since June 2006 as part of Operation Jump Start, are being drawn down as the operation nears its expiration July 15. At its peak, the operation brought 6,000 troops to the border states, including 2,400 to Arizona. That has been reduced by half, with roughly 1,200 troops now stationed along the Arizona border. [...]
    "Real solutions to fix our broken borders cannot wait that long," Napolitano wrote Chertoff.