Obama's National Guard deployment working, but costly
(NEWSER) - The 1,200 National Guardsmen that Barack Obama dispatched to help patrol the US-Mexico border in the summer of 2010 have caught plenty of illegal immigrants—but it hasn’t been cheap. The guardsmen have helped catch 25,514 illegal immigrants and have cost the government $160 million, which works out to $6,271 per bust, the Washington Post reports. “As a mayor, I am not going to say we don’t want more security,” says Hidalgo, Texas’ mayor. “But as a taxpayer? I would say something different.” More»