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09-10-2009, 08:25 PM #1
TEXAS RANGER teams to go to Texas-Mexico border
Perry: Ranger teams to go to Texas-Mexico border
By MICHAEL GRACZYK, The Associated Press
5:01 p.m. September 10, 2009
HOUSTON — Special teams of Texas Rangers will be deployed to the Texas-Mexico border to deal with increasing violence because the federal government has failed to address growing problems there, Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday. "It is an expansive effort with the Rangers playing a more high-profile role than they've ever played before," Perry said of the Department of Public Safety's elite investigative unit.
The forces, dubbed "Ranger recon" teams, are the latest effort "to fill the gap that's been left by the federal government's ongoing failure to adequately secure our international border with Mexico," he said.
The governor early this year asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for 1,000 National Guard troops and renewed his call last month in a letter to President Barack Obama. The request is bogged down over who will pay for the troops and how they will be deployed.
Perry's announcement Thursday comes amid increasing border violence, particularly in El Paso, mostly involving people with ties to Mexican drug gangs.
"They'll be deployed to high-traffic, high-crime areas along the border," he said. "They'll give us boots on the ground, put people in these hot spots no matter what or where they may exist."
Perry said the effort also would focus on remote areas where farmers and ranchers have complained of being overrun by smugglers and gangs from Mexico in numbers that also overwhelm local law enforcement and border patrol officers.
"Washington is shortchanging them, not giving them the support they need," Perry said. "As a result, we're having to dedicate our resources to deal with the challenges we have along the Texas-Mexico border and ensuing issues that porous border has created all across state of Texas."
He said the state would pick up the tab of $110 million, allocated by the Legislature in the past two sessions.
Perry's announcement drew immediate criticism from U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who is running against the two-term incumbent in the March GOP primary.
"Today's announcement is yet another empty election-year promise from Rick Perry on border security," Hutchison spokesman Joe Pounder said.
Perry fired back that it was the "height of hypocrisy for someone who's been in Washington, D.C., for 16 years, who's had the opportunity to help Texas on our border security, and they've been no more successful in delivering the resources and help."
"So please do that job up there first before you come down here and start criticizing about the state of Texas," he said.
Hutchison also took Perry to task for the absence of any Texas agency from a federal program that allows Homeland Security personnel to work with local law enforcement on immigration issues.
"Texans need a governor they can trust to actually improve our security," her campaign said in a statement.
"I happen to think we've taken advantage of every program that's been effective," responded Perry, who has been branding his opponent as someone from Washington out of touch with her home state. "Pointing out one program that has been funded and leaving the 800-pound gorilla – which is 1,000 National Guard troops that we need – I am stunned someone from Washington, D.C., would say they've done enough to secure our border."
Brig. Gen. Joyce Stevens, commander of the Texas Army National Guard, said about 200 soldiers and airmen already have started integrated operations with the Rangers.
Tony Leal, assistant director of the Texas Rangers, declined to provide the number of his officers involved in the effort.
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09-10-2009, 08:48 PM #2
Go Texas!!! Federal government be dam!ed!!!
The Feds are completely negligent and worthless when it comes to securing the borders of our sovereign nation from invasion. We need to just give up on them, and the border states will now have to take matters into their own hands.
Those of us in non-border states need to help and support them somehow. The time has come, before it is really too late, that we have no choice but to take matters into our own hands, if we want to stop the illegal invasion.<div>Number*U.S. military*in S.Korea to protect their border with N.Korea: 28,000. Number*U.S. military*on 2000 mile*U.S. southern border to protect ourselves from*the war in our own backyard: 1,200 National Guard.</
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09-10-2009, 09:05 PM #3Originally Posted by builditnow
I don't know about AZ. and N.M.NO AMNESTY
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09-10-2009, 11:20 PM #4
This is IMPORTANT and GOOD news.
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09-11-2009, 06:25 AM #5
YOU GO TEXAS! The other 44 states should chip in and help Texas, California, Arizona and New Mexico seal their borders. Every state benefits when we secure this southern border. Tell Janet Napolitano, go play checkers with Janet Maguira at National Council of La Raza for the next 3 years, and the states will take care of securing the borders. Then the states can tell their citizens how much to deduct from their federal income taxes to reimburse the states for the expense that should have been paid for by the US Government before they sent 1 cent to a bank, car company, csar, pork project, La Raza, ACORN, or non-economic stimuli.
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09-11-2009, 01:52 PM #7Special teams of Texas Rangers will be deployed to the Texas-Mexico border to deal with increasing violence because the federal government has failed to address growing problems there, GovRIP Butterbean! We miss you and hope you are well in heaven.-- Your ALIPAC friends
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09-11-2009, 03:37 PM #8
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Perry has been in office since Bush left, and is just now doing something? Sorry Perry, it's race time and we will not fall for your BS anymore. You AND Hutchison should be ashamed of yourself for allowing illegals free reign of our state and services for the past 9 years.
Ted Nugent for governor!We see so many tribes overrun and undermined
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09-11-2009, 07:01 PM #9
Judy wrote:
Tell Janet Napolitano, go play checkers with Janet Maguira at National Council of La Raza for the next 3 years, and the states will take care of securing the borders. Then the states can tell their citizens how much to deduct from their federal income taxes to reimburse the states for the expense that should have been paid for by the US Government before they sent 1 cent to a bank, car company, csar, pork project, La Raza, ACORN, or non-economic stimuli.
Now I have this image of Napolitano and Maguira sitting in a room at LaRaza playing checkers, while the rest of us are down on the border actually protecting it. And its a great image!!!<div>Number*U.S. military*in S.Korea to protect their border with N.Korea: 28,000. Number*U.S. military*on 2000 mile*U.S. southern border to protect ourselves from*the war in our own backyard: 1,200 National Guard.</
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09-13-2009, 08:12 AM #10Originally Posted by builditnow
Someone with art skills should do a cartoon.
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