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Arizona Sheriff: Why More US Troops in Korea Than on Mexican Border?

On Monday, Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu told CNS News that the 1,200 U.S. National Guardsmen that will be kept along the U.S.-Mexico border until Sept. 30 is far from enough. The sheriff accused the Obama administration of “pandering” with this decision on manpower levels, indicating the sheriff believes it is a purely political gesture that will have a negligible effect on US-Mexico border security.

Arizona Sheriff: Why More US Troops in Korea Than on Mexican Border?

Section of the US-Mexico Border Fence

Only 520 guardsmen are deployed in Arizona, according to the sheriff,  and Arizona is a state with a 276-mile border with Mexico. In 2010, approximately 212,000 illegal aliens were seized in the Tucson sector of Arizona – or 47 percent of all illegal aliens taken into custody, according to a Department of Homeland Security study cited by CNS News.

To illustrate his point, Babeu compared the number of U.S. soldiers assigned to protect the US-Mexico border with the28,500 US troops that have been stationed in North Korea for 58 years.

Referring to what he views as a grossly undermanned US-Mexico border-particularly in the State of Arizona-Babeu said:

“The gravest national security risk that we face is right here with the unsecure border with Mexico…right from the beginning, these 1,200 [National Guard] soldiers fall far short from what’s really, truly needed to achieve a secure border.”

The Sheriff went on to claim that 6,000 U.S. troops are needed to properly secure the US border. In his opinion, 3,00o National Guardsmen in Arizona and 1,000 in each of the other three border states would do the job over a two-year period.

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  • Xerus rutilus
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:41pm

    The problem is that Obama needs to get off his high horse, and realize that mexican people are the problem with the county and the sooner we wake up to that problem the better off we will all be

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on June 23, 2011 at 8:50pm

      The problems the messican people present to the U.S. is just what he/they (democraps) want and need to facilitate their leftist agenda. And their leftist agenda is completely at odds with our Constitution and American way of life.

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  • WHIZ
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:25pm

    Whatever! Half my posts get taken down anyway!

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  • TulsaYeeHaw
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 8:59pm

    ADRIANOPLE. Enough said

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  • GEETAR
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 8:45pm

    lou dobbs reported that bush had signed a treaty with canada and mexico behind our backs and thats why they are relucted to close the border. look it up

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  • nomercy63
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 6:27pm

    They are building 2 new houses next to me, over 100 workers so far not a American in the bunch all Mexican.

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  • AZ_Dennis
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 6:15pm

    We do not needs US troops in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Libya. Dear Lord, we’ve had US troops in South Korea for sixty years. None of these countries want us there — just one year ago the people of South Korea were demonstrating/rioting against the US. We don’t have to be the police department for the world; we need to mind our own business. Our foreign aid does more harm than good. We need to close foreign bases and bring our troops home. We need a presidential candidate who will kick the United Nations out of the US and terminate all funding to the UN. We need a presidential candidate who will terminate all foreign aid. We need a candidate who will secure our border

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    • Arizona Don
      Posted on June 21, 2011 at 7:26pm

      You are right Dennis. I cannot disagree with anything you said. Maybe we just see things differently here in AZ. Nation building is BS. We went into Afghanistan because that was the main base and the main place the terrorists trained. There was nothing wrong with that, they attacked us. Our goal was to get Bin Laden. We got him, now we need to bring the troops home. But before we leave we need to tell the terrorists if they move back in we come over and clean them out again, and again, and again if need be. The government and the people allow them to train and plan in Afghanistan they are just as responsible as the terrorists. Take no prisoners, let God sort them out. Building their nation is destroying ours and I personally do not consider that a bargain. Getting our guys killed for the Afghans is also BS. Enough said!

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  • geonj
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 6:06pm

    if obama was sincere about securing the border, he would man the border with enough guardsmen and border cops to seal the border. in reality he does not want a secure border. he is a leftist loon. a real loser who has no respect for the law of the land.

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  • Centralsville
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:05pm

    If you don’t want 50 million poor, uneducated Mexicans and Central Americans flooding into your country it means you are full of hate. Don’t believe the numbers. There isn‘t a town in America that isn’t touched by this problem. If there isn’t 50 million yet give it a few years.

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  • SandyfromChesterfield
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:00pm

    How else is obama going to win the next election if we do not let these illegal immigrants into our country so they can vote?

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    • Calvo
      Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:13pm

      Bush and McCain are every bit as bad as the Democrats when it comes to illegals. The fact of the matter is that 40% of illegals are not Mexican. They came with visas and over stayed. We tried amnesty once, when there was supposed to be only a million illegals. There were really more than 3 million. Now they say there are 12 million, I bet it is closer to 30 million.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on June 23, 2011 at 8:43pm

      That’s not exactly true CALVO, the republicans are ambivalent about illegal immigration, because they don’t know what the hell to do about it. The democraps are much more sinister, they purposely don’t want to do anything about it, for purely leftist reasons, such as World Governance, Globalism, voter numbers, and to be able to use these people and the problems they create to further their agenda’s such as government contolled healthcare, gun control, increased taxes, etc.

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  • Lotus503
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:44pm

    I think he must have meant “U. S. troops stationed in SOUTH Korea”. I’m sure Kim Jong-Il wouldn’t be too pleased if they were in the North.

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:44pm

    No one should be able to cross our borders illegally. No one. I don’t care if they are a Mexican or a blond haired, blue-eyed Swede. No one should illegally come here. There is always the ones who speak of how good the Mexicans work at the menial jobs. The truth is they take good jobs from Americans too. They cost us billions in education and in medical bills. A large percentage of them are criminals and they prey on unsuspecting Americans. They form and enlarge drug gangs. There are some that are revolutionaries and want to take the Southwestern states from America and make them a new Spanish speaking Country allied with Mexico are part of Mexico. They are a plague. Then there is the fact that other people are crossing the unprotected southern border.., including terrorists. What a stupid government we have in Washington D.C.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on June 23, 2011 at 8:34pm

      The commies use the messicans just like they use blacks, to undermine our Constitution, culture, freedoms, etc. If illegal mexicans are burdening our medical system for example, it serves the leftists for the purpose of such things as Obumercare. If intercity blacks are killing each other in record numbers, driving up our crime rate, it serves the leftists in the area of gun control, gun confiscation. They are pure evil.

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  • Thighmaster
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:43pm

    Eventually it will sink in that this president isn’t who he says he is, on the other hand he is exactly who he says he is. Listen closely and watch both mouths…

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  • fitsgibbons
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:28pm

    I’ve been censored again?

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  • Kneale
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:24pm

    Comprehensive immigration. If you can’t solve 20 million illegals already in the country why stop a few hundred thousand more a year. We have been told this by both political parties for 30 years (wait…a few hundred thousand a year for thirty years = 20 million). What if we had stopped them starting thirty years ago, There would be 19 million fewer to send back now. Comprehensive anything is just a code word for doing nothing. Comprehensive=paralysis. We buy the mantra like a bunch of punks.

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  • fitsgibbons
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:22pm

    I’m telling you….with a prez like we have, we civilians will have to secure our own borders..not just the Mexican border, but also the Canadien border. It’s just a matter of time. obama will not protect us from threats like this. Let’s elect a leader who cares more about America, than he and his slutty wife‘s personal agenda’s.

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  • Centralsville
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:13pm

    It is sick how our government is giving away our country without lifting a finger to do the will of the people. The immigration problem alone is proof that we have lost our government. Compared to what is happening right now in this country due to uncontrolled immigration from Mexico I could care less what happens to South Korea. Our own federal government is doing a better job of destroying us than some dictator in North Korea could ever do.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:39am

      And Americans aren’t making any noise at all about China being sold 50K acres in Idaho, and other areas- but we want to bitch and piss and moan about wetbax coming across the border.
      Is there something wrong with this picture?

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  • ICEDRAGONNITE
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:05pm

    What about spreading hate and discontent, don’t you get? The more hate, the more separate we become, the more discontented, the more we will not listen to common sense. IT IS TIME TO CALL THIS GOVERNMENT DOWN AND CHARGE THEM WITH THE PROPER CRIMES. WE ARE AT WAR, SO TREASON, SEDITION, HIGH CRIMES, MISDEMEANORS, ARE APPROPRIATE IN MANY AREAS.

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  • starchy
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:05pm

    Really? 3000 in AZ, and only 1000 in TX would do the job? I think we need a lot more than 3000 to secure our borders.

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  • Rightsofman
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:58pm

    Yeah why ARE there more troops on the N/S Korea border than on the US/Mex border ? Mr. President? Anyone? Anyone?

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  • Baikonur
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:53pm

    Because Mexicans are just coming here to work –as gardeners, nannies, cleaning ladies, agricultural workers, food service personnel, chefs, business owners –and they do a great job.

    In Korea, we have troops because there to keep an eye on insane people with nuclear weapons.

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    • yosemitefan
      Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:28pm

      Never trust a Cardassian – Chief O’Brien says.

      I grew up 7 miles from the Mexican border – sure the Mexicans want US jobs. Right now about 18 million legal Citizens would love to have those jobs. When we have 3-4% unemployment again we may consider letting them return legally as Braceros with 90 day temporary visas then they must go home. Even Mexico will shoot and kill Guatemalan’s trying to cross their southern border.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on June 23, 2011 at 8:21pm

      If we want 3-4% unemployment again, we’ll have to bring George W. Bush back.

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  • cemerius
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:49pm

    Can’t stop the flow of more uneducated lettuce pickers coming in due to the corporate owned farms!! Quit thinking of “farmers” as Farmer Green Jeans…most farms are corporate owned and operated!!! Add to this mess the “instant citizen act” similar to the one here in Florida called “wet foot dry foot”!!!

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  • reconmarine
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:47pm

    The difference is that Obama WANTS the Mexicans to come over the border. He has armed them to boot. Guns for votes.

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  • llotus
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:44pm

    More military on the border would mean less ilegals getting across the border. Give me an A. Lotus.

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    • WE ARE NEVER HEARD
      Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:14pm

      For years we have asked that the border be closed. why hasn’t any of the Presidents, including Reagan, closed it? What is the game they are playing and with whom? I wonder what would happen if armed citizens went there and killed eveyone who crossed it. They would oly be doing what our Government isn’t doing. Who is going to take charge and lead such a campaign, where d I sign up???

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on June 23, 2011 at 8:36pm

      The signup sheet is in the lobby, get in line.

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  • ALibertarianCitizen
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:43pm

    Sign an official peace treaty with N. Korea, China, and S. Korea get our BOG back here in the USA and put them on guard houses every 200m with orders to fire warning shots on sight and to kill anyone who doesn’t stop. An INVASION should never be tolerated!

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  • HKS
    Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:39pm

    I guess we know who is more important.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:55pm

      Everything the lying man-child does has a political agenda.

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    • fastfacts
      Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:12pm

      BECAUSE THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION DOESN’T CARE

      Look at the ATF, Obama wants to replace the current director with a gun control advocate: http://tiny.cc/93jy1. Look at how many have died by those guns.

      Look at all the money we are wasting on illegals: http://tiny.cc/93jy1

      ANOTHER OBAMA FAILED POLICY

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    • Brighter_Bart
      Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:30pm

      I know why! Because they have a base to live on like a fortress. In Korea lands.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:38pm

      Because the socialist democrat people haven’t figured out how to sneak and get Koreans to vote in their elections.

      Because the socialist democrat people haven’t figured out how to get Koreans social security cards so they can vote.

      Because there are no ACORN offices in Korea to register them to vote in U.S. elections.

      Because the socialist democrat people haven’t figured out how to get SEIU to register DEAD Koreans to vote.

      Because obama isn‘t pandering to Americans with Korean heritage so he isn’t trying to immigrate the entire nation of Korea.

      Because Korea isn’t trying to slowly conquer the U.S. through the slowest invasion in history.

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    • avenger
      Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:13pm

      owe bummer needs the illegal votes to steal the election 2012…

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    • ConsiderThis
      Posted on June 21, 2011 at 6:40pm

      Hey, Sheriff,
      The answer is very simple. There are groups out there making sure Hispanics vote. Koreans don’t!

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    • JRook
      Posted on June 21, 2011 at 6:41pm

      Well perhaps if the US gun shops along the boarder would stop selling guns to smugglers who they know are taking them to Mexico, and a host of small business people like construction, landscaping, housekeeping, maintenance, etc. companies would stop knowingly hire them the problem might start reversing itself. But yes I am in favor of reducing our military footprint everywhere.

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    • hifi74
      Posted on June 21, 2011 at 7:36pm

      Brighter_Bart
      Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:30pm

      I know why! Because they have a base to live on like a fortress. In Korea lands.
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      A base, yes. A fortress, NO! After being stationed there for little over a year, there is definitely no fortress. There are some meandering caves and tunnels but definitely not a fortress.

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    • hifi74
      Posted on June 21, 2011 at 7:41pm

      JRook
      Posted on June 21, 2011 at 6:41pm

      Well perhaps if the US gun shops along the boarder would stop selling guns to smugglers who they know are taking them to Mexico, and a host of small business people like construction, landscaping, housekeeping, maintenance, etc. companies would stop knowingly hire them the problem might start reversing itself. But yes I am in favor of reducing our military footprint everywhere.
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      Taking the knife away that cut you won’t stop the bleeding until you first put a dressing over the wound. You can’t stop the bleeding until you patch it.

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:44pm

      I had rather see my tax dollars pay US Soldiers guarding our border than pay illegals health care once they cross the border.

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    • Jackers
      Posted on June 22, 2011 at 5:19am

      Sheriff Paul Babeu is a national hero! It’s no wonder he received the “Sheriff of the Year” award… This man speaks the truth, and we desperately need more American patriots with the courage to stand up and speak out.

      Why do we secure the borders of foreign nations while leaving our southern border wide open to mass human smuggling, drug smuggling, gangs, crime and corruption? As Sheriff Babeu states, this is not about race; this is about the rule of law.

      A country without borders is not a country at all. We must stop being a big fat “free for all” for any and all invaders from across the globe as this has made us the laughingstock of the world and will most certainly be our downfall…

      We must secure our borders and protect the safety and security of the American people; and the only way we can accomplish this is by electing political representatives who will honor their oaths to the Constitution and serve the majority will and best interests of the American people.

      Enough with these open-border, We-are-the-World, global elites running our show! After all, our “royal” members of the ruling class don’t have to live with the devastating consequences of wide-open borders and mass illegal immigration… We the People do.

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    • mr.jones024
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 8:49pm

      Look up the Northern Union and you’ll see why the American/ mexican baorder is unimportant to him and most Demicrats.

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