Texas Rangers patrolling border areas irks some

Governor's initiative called ‘wrong signal’
By Ana Campoy

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
2:00 a.m. September 20, 2009

Many local officials on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande are panning Texas Gov. Rick Perry's latest initiative to stem illegal activity along the U.S.-Mexico border, complaining that the governor is wrongly painting their region as a lawless no man's land.

On Sept. 10, Perry said he was sending special teams of Texas Rangers to the border because of “the federal government's ongoing failure to adequately secure our international border.â€