WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama will send 1,200 National Guard troops to the Mexican border, an administration official said Tuesday, following calls from politicians in both parties to step up the fight against illegal immigration and border violence. "This proves that until we have comprehensive immigration policy, we'll subject the country to a series of band-aids, rather than a long-term solution," said Rick Nelson, a national-security analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He called the troop deployment "more posturing than an effective measure." "We are outraged," said Pablo Alvarado, director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, a Los Angeles-based immigrant advocacy group. "Instead of addressing a domestic human rights crisis, the president appears to be caving into extremists who are further shattering an already broken immigration system," he said. (I would like to remind Mr. Nelson that if he and the government would just obey the law that is currently on the books this would not be a problem, nor a band-aid as he calls it. As for Mr. Alverado, this is not a human rights crisis. Why not just go home to Mexico where you belong. Instead of committing a crime when you cross the border. You are invading OUR rights not us invading yours.) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704026204575266792744749152.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us