Obama Weighs Keeping National Guard on US, Mexico Border to Fight Illegal Immigration
Still, advocates on both sides of the immigration debate agree the National Guard mission has been success and should continue at least for the short term.
"The military doesn't even have to be doing anything, just maneuvers there, and the cartels basically feel threatened and stay away," said Roy Beck, president of NumbersUSA, which favors a permanent deployment of the National Guard along the border. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obama-talk-immigration-weighs-national-guard-us/story?id=13547658
By DEVIN DWYER -- ABC News