Under political pressure for his failure to secure the border and with midterm election campaigns under way, President Obama will send 1,200 National Guard Troops to the border.  

According to the NY Times: From 2006-2008, President George W. Bush deployed 6,000 Guard troops under a program called Operation Jump Start.  

These troops arrested more than 162,000 undocumented immigrants, rescued 100 people stranded in the desert and 305,000 pounds of drugs.