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Democrats stop bid to send 6,000 troops to US-Mexico border

Democratic senators have stopped a move by John McCain to send an additional 6,000 National Guard troops to the US-Mexico border.

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A National Guard unit patrols at the Arizona-Mexico border on Jan. 19, 2007 in Sasabe, Ariz. The Obama administration announced Tuesday it was sending as many as 1,200 National Guard troops to the border.
  • By Associated Press

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President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in the Senate have repelled a move by presidential rival John McCain to send an additional 6,000 National Guard troops to the U.S-Mexico border.

The Arizona Republican says the security situation along the border has deteriorated so badly that 3,000 Guard troops are needed just to help protect his state. But McCain failed to muster the required 60 votes for his plan as the 100-member Senate continued debate on an a war funding bill.

Obama on Tuesday promised to send 1,200 Guard troops to the border to support efforts to block drug trafficking and temporarily supplement Border Patrol agents until more agents can be trained.

Former President George W. Bush sent thousands of Guard troops to the border in 2006.

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