State lawmakers want to know why National Guardsmen retreated from the border in the face of armed gunmen last week and also want to nail down what exactly the soldiers' role on the border should be...
"Why would this be allowed to happen?" Nichols, the [AZ state Homeland Security and Property Rights]committee's chairman, asked. "Why do we have National Guard running from illegals on the border? Are they (National Guardsmen) armed? Do they have bullets in their guns? We need some answers to some of these questions."...
Rep. Russell Pearce, the Legislature's strongest voice on border security, said two National Guardsmen who work on the border told him their weapons do not have bullets...
In a separate announcement Tuesday, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas called on the Legislature and Congress to investigate the National Guard incident on the border. "This incident should not just be brushed by and forgotten," |