[StoneColdGOP]

The state of California's control over the national guard is pretty limited. They National Guard can be called upon by the governor in certin situations, but they are a federal entity not a state entity.

True. Even if the Governor were to do the right thing and deploy the California National Guard to the Mexican border, the president could simply federalize them and sent them right back to their barracks.

The state has no standing army. All they have are the state police, or if their laws provide for it, they could have a state militia.

Actually, we do have a small, virtually unknown California State Military Reserve, primarily a land force but also with an air component, and plans to even add a naval militia.

California State Military Reserve.

[untrained skeptic]

"Actually, we do have a small, virtually unknown California State Military Reserve, primarily a land force but also with an air component, and plans to even add a naval militia."

Thanks for the information, I was unaware of that.

[politicalwit]

Appears California needs something like Texas. Although the Texas State Guard is voluntary it cannot be federalized. The Governor of Texas needs to expand the roll of the TSG to include border patrol since their duties also include "Homeland Security."

http://www.agd.state.tx.us/stateguard/

[JeffAtlanta]

Even if the Governor were to do the right thing and deploy the California National Guard to the Mexican border, the president could simply federalize them and sent them right back to their barracks.

Arnold would never start this process in the first place but if he did and Bush called them back, that would destroy Bush's credibility among conservatives and leave him almost no friends to defend him against liberals.

It would finally force his hand to do something about the border problem.