The Governor of Arizona is a Democrat and this is an election year for her. She has vetoed about 5 or 6 bills dealing with immigration and thoroughly angered everyone who pays any attention to the subject. So here's what she said in her State of the State speech:
The federal government has promised more border patrol agents for Arizona.
But, until they are here, I have asked Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld to invoke article 32 of the federal code, which allows the federal government to pay for us to station the National Guard at our border. That financial support would allow the Guard to expand its presence and become even more involved in enforcing the rule of law at the border.
At first glance it sounds she wants to have the Guard at the border. But if you read it carefully you can see that if she gets no Federal money she won't be doing a thing with the Guard. Then she said this:
I also propose that we give the Department of Public Safety the manpower it needs to keep up with the overwhelming enforcement challenge.
And I want to make sure that law enforcement in the cities and towns that have been hit hardest by illegal immigration have the tools, training and personnel they need.
DPS doesn't do any border enforcement now, so it's a mystery what the new manpower will be doing. And the second sentence doesn't have anything to do with border enforcement or even arresting illegals. She vetoed the bill last year that would have given police the ability to arrest illegals.
She's a big-time leftie trying to make up for past mistakes by blowing smoke. Don't trust her - most people don't.
I stand corrected.