Thread: Texas Border Business Leaders Attack McCaul’s Border Plan

ByAnna WernerCBS NewsJuly 21, 2014, 7:19 PM

Texans frustrated land has become highway for illegal immigrants

McALLEN, Texas -- On Monday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said it's time to send in the National Guard. He's authorizing the deployment of 1,000 troops to his state's border with Mexico to bolster security. The number of illegal immigrants, many of them children, trying to cross the border has surged in recent months.Lorenzo Anzaldua
Few Texans are as eager to welcome the National Guard as Lorenzo Anzaldua. His family has lived in McAllen, Texas, for close to 175 years. But now their land has become a highway for illegal immigrants coming across the Rio Grande River just a mile or so away, three weeks ago. "It's like a funnel and they all get on the border or on our land, or you know, American soil and they take three or four routes but they all merge into one. And that's right behind me, that road."

Many wind up in nearby McAllen, Texas. Seventy-six percent of the illegal immigrants in this recent surge have come through the Rio Grande valley region.

Volunteers have offered help to the immigrants at a catholic charities shelter downtown.
Lazaro Fernandez Jr.
Lazaro Fernandez Jr.'s fabric company is two blocks away. "I am frustrated because we should have never gotten to that point and that situation. And our government has put us in that situation and that is wrong," says Fernandez.

Officials in McAllen want Washington to reimburse the city for the $700,000 it expects to spend this year to deal with the latest surge of illegal immigrants, including transportation and security costs.


"We're being invaded and the quicker the politicians realize it's an invasion, the quicker they'll close the border," adds Anzaldua. He hopes the arrival of the guard is the first step in that direction.



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From the posted article of this thread:

The editorial quotes Keith Patridge’s, president and CEO of the McAllen Economic Development Corp, description of McCaul’s plan for border security. “There’s a feeling in the United States that we have an insecurity on the border and the Republican Party was saying we need to tighten up border security. And there’s a lot of people across the country who feel that way,” Patridge said. “Unfortunately, it impacts us because we recognize the interaction and cross-border relationship between our communities.”

The editorial board wrote, “We agree with United Brownsville Executive Director Mike Gonzalez who said on Monday that a solution to the immigration crisis requires greater inclusion of border communities as well as a bi-national, integrated border control approach with economic development alternatives.”

Okay, so lets get this straight. McAllen, Texas is where most illegal aliens end up after crossing the Rio Grande. The costs of these people on the community of McAllen is so high they're clamoring for reimbursement from federal taxpayers for what they spend on them, i.e. for the "recent" surge alone, the city wants $700,000 from US taxpayers.

But the McAllen editorial board and the President of the McAllen Economic Development Corporation don't want a fence, they want "inclusion", they want a "bi-national approach" to securing the US border, and they want "economic development alternatives". Well, we have NAFTA which couldn't be friendlier to business "leaders" on the border, especially the Mexico side.

So something doesn't add up here. In July, CBS found that McAllen Texas wants illegal immigration stopped, because it's a "funnel", a "highway" to illegal alien invasions in McAllen and the city wants $700,000 from the federal government to pay for the burden these illegal aliens are causing McAllen, Texas. Yet in January, just 6 months later, they want to oppose the building of a fence that would certainly curb if not stop it altogether without interfering at all with legal business enterprises on either side of the border. So what's up with this?

Someone needs to check the pockets and wallets of those opposing the fence because there's something very rotten in Denmark going on here, and it won't take a rocket scientist to figure it out.