Did they ever fully attain the 6,000 number? Every report that I read indicated that there never was 6,000. And the excuse was due to the 2-week rotations.
Also, there is no surprise that less than 20% of the promised new Border Guards have been hired.
The Bush speech in Yuma a few days ago was nothing but hypocrisy. He talks about securing the border while doing everything he can to erase it.
“The NG on the border was a shellgame anyway.”
Remember the TN National Guard that “ran away” when the large group of masked heavily armed gunmen approached them?
They were local guys who had just returned from a long deployment in Iraq where they had performed heroically...
Hardly the sort to be cowards, but they were UNARMED on the border...