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    Texas 'navy' to patrol the Rio Grande

    Texas will deploy a fleet of six gunboats on the Rio Grande.

    February 29th, 2012
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    Texas 'navy' to patrol the Rio Grande

    Texas is getting its own navy.

    Next month, the state's Department of Public Safety will deploy the first of a fleet of six gunboats on the Rio Grande, the river that forms the border between the state and Mexico, CNN affiliate WFAA-TV reports.

    The 34-foot-long boats, each powered by three, 300-horsepower outboard engines, will have bulletproof plating and six machine guns apiece, not unlike the river patrol boats the U.S. Navy used during the Vietnam War.

    The vessels will be able to operate in as little as 2 feet of water, according to the report, and will work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to combat drug smuggling coming across the Rio Grande.

    "They're finding out when those people are coming across, and one of the things they need to be able to do is interdict them on the water," Texas state Rep. Paul Workman told CNN affiliate KVUE-TV when the first of the boats, the JD Davis, was christened in December.

    "If you're trying to suppress organized smuggling activity, there's no substitute for putting people on the ground," Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven C. McCraw said at the December ceremony. "The way they're operating right now, you need them on the water as well."

    "It sends a message: Don't mess with Texas," Jose Rodriguez, a regional commander of the Texas Department of Safety, told WFAA.

    The six boats will be named after Texas state troopers killed in the line of duty. The first was named after Jerry Don Davis, who was shot and killed in 1980. Another, to be commissioned Thursday in Austin, will be named in honor of trooper David Irvine Rucker, who was killed in 1981, according to The Brownsville Herald.

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    WOOO HOOO! Now this is what I call deterence!

    The 34-foot-long boats, each powered by three, 300-horsepower outboard engines, will have bulletproof plating and six machine guns apiece, not unlike the river patrol boats the U.S. Navy used during the Vietnam War.
    Texas has their own "brown water navy"!

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    The Swiss-made Pilatus PC-12 NG Spectre features surveillance gear like that used by the pilotless U.S. drones in war zones and elsewhere around the globe. (Photo: Pilatus Inc.)

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    Never thought I would say this "Hats off to Texas, they are better then California"

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    Time to bring out the big guns.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MontereySherry View Post
    Never thought I would say this "Hats off to Texas, they are better then California"
    When Texans get mad, then they have had enough, they get into action. Now if some other citizens would send tax money to TX instead of Washington, now that Texans have had enough, we might see some semblance of border security.

    I doubt that we can go it alone, but we will make a difference. It would help if other states just volunteered to shelter, clothe, feed, educate all these present border jumpers coming now. It is only a few thousand a week. I'm not happy with those Americans now saying, as in the long forgotten past, "It is the border states problem, not ours." How chicken sheet is that when most of the cheap labor advocates are elsewhere and their chicken sheet Congressional friends are from elsewhere.

    America truly is a land of constant amazement.

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    They've had these boats since 2012.
    They don't seem to have done much to secure the border.
    It's still a sieve.
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