A grassroots borders enforcement organization is joining the growing call for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to dispatch National Guard troops to the Mexican border in the wake of the recent brutal murder of an Arizona rancher.

The murder of Robert Krentz on his own property has sparked an outrage among border-control advocates. Former Congressmen Tom Tancredo and J.D. Hayworth, along with many state lawmakers from border states, have called for troops to be deployed to the border. (See related story)

William Gheen is president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), which has officially joined that call. "We feel that troops at the border, stopping the flow of illegal aliens and drugs north in a better capacity -- as we know is possible -- would help protect American jobs, wages, health, and very lives," he states...