Crisis in America's Bosnia heightens as states forced to protect border in face of federal inaction
(AFP) Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano ordered more National Guard soldiers deployed to the state's border with Mexico to help fight crime and stem the flow of undocumented migrants.
Napolitano decreed a state of emergency on the border with Mexico in August 2005, citing violence on the Mexican side and increased undocumented immigration.
The estimated annual undocumented migration over Arizona's border with Mexico "has increased nearly fivefold since the 1980s," reads the governor's executive order.
That has resulted in an "increase in the threat to public health and safety from gangs, coyotes (smugglers) and others engaged in dangerous criminal activities," as well as "damages to vegetation, wildlife, livestock and personal property."
The governor did not say how many National Guard soldiers were to be deployed or how much the deployment would cost.
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