Barack Obama to Send 1,200 Troops to the Border

President Barack Obama will send approximately 1,200 National Guard soldiers to the SW border of Mexico and seek increased spending on US law enforcement there to combat drug smuggling after demands from US Republican and Democratic lawmakers that Mexican border security be tightened.

The decision was disclosed by a Democratic lawmaker and confirmed by US administration officials after Mr. Obama met on Tuesday with Republican senators, several of whom have demanded that United States troops be placed at the Mexican border. But the move also reflected political pressure in the president’s own party with midterm election campaigns under way and with what is expected to be a tumultuous debate on overhauling US  immigration law coming up on Capitol Hill. The source of this article is www.nytimes.com