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National guardsmen heading to the border, details remain unclear. >> call rove who was george w. bushs chief of staff when he sent 6000 troops to the border says the law is clear. >> when you send the guard to the border they cannot protect the border in a way you think the border patrol does. they are logistical, they free up people in the border patrol to stand on the border and intercept people, backroom operation in terms of detention. the dog handlers, the dogs you see at the check points s...

They provide air assets. they do some of the backroom operation in terms of detention. they literally -- weve had people in 2006-08 who were the dog handlers. those dogs of the checkpoints, they were the people in in the backroom dealing with the dogs so that there could be more border patrol men who could actually arrest people. under law, literally, laws going back to 1807, the insurrection act of 1807, the 1980 national guard eczema national guardsmen cannot arrest people. so they will be sup...