Operation Jump Start
The Bush Administration’s Immigration Reform Plan
The President has called onCongress to pass comprehensive immigration reform that will secure our borders,enhance worksite enforcement, create a temporary worker program, resolve thestatus of illegal immigrants already here, and promote assimilation into oursociety, including by learning English. National Guard Deployment. Under Operation Jump Start, about 6,000 National Guard members have deployed to help the Border Patrol secure the southern border. In May, the President pledged that we would have up to 6,000 National Guard members in southern border states. Today, the President announced that we have met that pledge. · National Guard members are on duty supporting…