PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer again called for more troops along the state’s border with Mexico on Thursday.
The Republican governor ordered a reallocation of state National Guard and law enforcement resources and called on the federal government to deploy National Guard troops.
Brewer’s border-security plan follows others released by Arizona politicians over the past two weeks in the wake of the death last month of a rancher on his property in southeastern Arizona.
It also comes two days before a deadline for her to approve or strike down the nation’s toughest legislation on illegal immigration. The GOP-led Legislature passed the sweeping bill that would, among other provisions, require police to question people about their immigration status if there’s reason to suspect they’re in the country illegally.
