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Last Update: 07/11/2006 12:58:18 PM
By: Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey is sending fewer National Guard troops to help patrol the Mexican border than was previously anticipated.
New Jersey had planned to send as many as 650 soldiers and airmen to New Mexico as part of an initiative by President Bush to use National Guard troops to help the Border Patrol stop illegal immigration.
But a spokeswoman for New Jersey’s Military and Veterans Affairs Department says the state now expects to send about 250 troops.
New Jersey officials say they agreed to send troops as long as it was only for two weeks, and if they’re needed back in New Jersey, they will be sent home.
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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