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U.S. may deploy troops if Mexico border violence escalates

 

Published 3/13/2009 at L.A. Times - Politics

The National Guard or Army would be called only as a last resort, a Homeland Security official says. > With drug-related violence growing along the Mexico border, the U.S. is willing to consider deploying troops to the Southwest -- but only as a last resort -- a Department of Homeland Security official told members of Congress on Thursday. (link)

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