Immigration 2014: CA Governor Jerry Brown on Rick Perry Sending Troops to Texas Border: Measure Will Be 'Short-Lived' and 'Wiser Minds Will Prevail'

California Governor Jerry Brown had some wise words on Rick Perry's plan to send 1,000 National Guard troops to the border on Monday, saying that he expects it to be a "short-lived measure" and that "wiser minds will prevail."

When asked about Rick Perry's decision to send National Guard troops to the border, Brown said: "I hesitate to comment on the thinking that goes into the sending of the Texas National Guard to the border. I would suspect that it would be of relatively short duration and that wiser minds will prevail in the next several months."

During a news conference from Mexico, where Brown is meeting with Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Jose Antonio Meade, the California Governor said that the crisis at U.S. borders, where tens of thousands of Central American youth are crossing into the United States from countries like El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala should be seen as a "humanitarian issue."

Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Jose Antonio Meade also chimed in on Perry's decision, which will deploy 1,000 National Guard troops to the Texas-Mexico border in south Texas over the next month in an attempt to stop the influx of immigrants into the United States.

Meade said that use of military agencies "is never justified in cases where children are concerned," unless they are employed in providing aid to the youth.

According to Brown, his "goal is to try as much as I can to frame the issue of the children as a humanitarian challenge. That should appeal to people of all political persuasions."

Meade also spoke about why so few immigrant children seek asylum in Mexico, stating that the low percentage of children fleeing gang violence or poverty in Honduras, El Salvador or Guatemala are merely trying to join family members in the United States.

"The fundamental goal, in many cases, is (family) reunification. That means the migrant's desire is really not to stay in Mexico," Meade said. "That explains why there are so few (asylum) requests in Mexico."