Thread: Texas governor to Obama: Send more troops to border

Aug 09, 2010

Texas governor to Obama: Send more troops to border

03:46 PM

By Carolyn Kaster, AP

Texas Gov. Rick Perry had a little something for President Obama when he greeted him today at the Austin airport: A three-page letter requesting that more federal troops be sent to the Mexican border.

More force is needed to combat the "dire threat" from drug cartels, which Perry said have killed some 28,000 people since 2006.

"I respectfully but urgently request that the federal government quickly deploy 1,000 troops to the Texas-Mexico border, as well as additional law enforcement tools and technology," Perry wrote. "We must show the cartels that Washington will no longer tolerate their terrorizing and criminalizing the border region."

White House spokesman Bill Burton said Obama's border security efforts are unprecedented.

"The president has put more assets on the border to secure the border than has ever previously been there," Burton said. "That includes National Guard troops, technology, things he has done on enforcement. That's something that he is working very hard on."

Perry, who handed his letter to Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, writes about several incidents of drug violence along the border.

"The purpose of this letter is to reiterate the dire threat amassing on our southern border in the form of international drug cartels and transnational gangs, and to again request sufficient federal resources to combat the increasing violence," Perry wrote.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... e-border/1

"White House spokesman Bill Burton said Obama's border security efforts are unprecedented"

A joke? right?

Valerie Jarrett, one of the most corrupt administration staffers most likely file thirteened the letter. The border really is secure when Americans are being killed by drug cartel and smuggling violence and the government puts signs in the Arizona desert warning Americans to stay away from parts of our own territory because of the danger of violence from smugglers. Unarmed National Guard troops are manning desks miles from the border. Obama cut funding for the border, reduced border patrol numbers and Napolitano gutted interior enforcement. They must think the American people are idiots. A pox on this administration who has the blood of Rob Krenz and the Nun on their hands but doesn't care.......

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Senate approves $600 million for border security

The legislation includes $176 million for 1,000 new border patrol agents to form a strike force to be deployed at critical areas, $89 million for another 500 customs and immigration personnel and $32 million to deploy unmanned aerial vehicles or drones.

It provides an additional $196 million for the Justice Department to bolster its forces of U.S. marshals, and FBI, DEA and ATF agents along the border.

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-208420.html

Letter here: PDF File
http://www.divshare.com/download/12229272-223