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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 732697" data-attributes="member: 12952">Rep. Mitchell joins calls for Obama to send troops to&nbsp; US-Mexico border&nbsp; Mike Sunnucks&nbsp;U.S. Rep. Harry Mitchell, D-Ariz., has joined the calls for President&nbsp; Barack Obama to send troops to the US-Mexico border.&nbsp;Mitchell is co-sponsoring a bill with U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher,&nbsp; R-Calif., calling for Obama to send 3,000 Army National Guard troops to&nbsp; help secure the border.&nbsp;U.S. Sens. Jon Kyl and John McCain and U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, all&nbsp; Arizona Republicans, also have called for troops at the border to help&nbsp; combat illegal immigration and drug and human smuggling.&nbsp;“The cross-border smuggling is out of control, and we can’t wait&nbsp; anymore. We need additional National Guard troops, and we need them&nbsp; now,” said Mitchell. “Arizona continues to pay a huge price for the&nbsp; federal government’s failure to secure the border. Here in the Phoenix&nbsp; metropolitan area, smugglers and Mexican drug cartels have set up drop&nbsp; houses, which are magnets for crime and violence — so much so, Phoenix&nbsp; has become a kidnapping capital.”&nbsp;Mitchell said there are as many as 1,000 drop&nbsp; houses in the Valley.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 732697, member: 12952"] [B]Rep. Mitchell joins calls for Obama to send troops to US-Mexico border [/B] [B]Mike Sunnucks[/B] U.S. Rep. Harry Mitchell, D-Ariz., has joined the calls for President Barack Obama to send troops to the US-Mexico border. Mitchell is co-sponsoring a bill with U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., calling for Obama to send 3,000 Army National Guard troops to help secure the border. U.S. Sens. Jon Kyl and John McCain and U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, all Arizona Republicans, also have called for troops at the border to help combat illegal immigration and drug and human smuggling. “The cross-border smuggling is out of control, and we can’t wait anymore. We need additional National Guard troops, and we need them now,” said Mitchell. “Arizona continues to pay a huge price for the federal government’s failure to secure the border. Here in the Phoenix metropolitan area, smugglers and Mexican drug cartels have set up drop houses, which are magnets for crime and violence — so much so, Phoenix has become a kidnapping capital.” [COLOR=maroon][B]Mitchell said there are as many as 1,000 drop houses in the Valley.[/B][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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