Via CNN.com
05/15/2006

In Oval Office address, Bush urges Congress to increase funding

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush will announce plans to deploy "up to 6,000" National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to support border patrol officers when he addresses the nation Monday night, an administration official said.

"We do not yet have full control of the border, and I am determined to change that," the president will say, according to excerpts of his speech released by the White House.

"I am calling on Congress to provide funding for dramatic improvements in manpower and technology at the border," Bush will say in his Oval Office speech to the nation, which will be carried live at 8 p.m. ET Monday on CNN and Pipeline.

Earlier, a senior administration official said the president would announce the deployment of several thousand troops to provide surveillance and security for U.S. border patrol agents as part of his push for a broader overhaul of immigration laws.

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