Thread: TX: Local officials criticize Perry border plan

Local officials criticize Perry border plan


Published: Sept. 20, 2009 at 1:24 AM

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Local officials in the Rio Grande Valley are not happy with Gov. Rick Perry's plan to deploy Texas Rangers along the Mexican border.

Perry announced Sept. 10 he would send teams of Rangers to patrol remote areas. He said he had to act because the federal government
had failed to secure the border.

The Texas Border Coalition -- mayors and county executives along the Rio Grande -- has sent Perry a letter opposing the plan, The Wall Street Journal reports.

"While each of our communities has their own unique issues, being overwhelmed by criminal elements from Mexico is not one of them," the group said.

Most areas along the border are heavily Democratic, so some of the opposition to the Republican governor may be political. Pat Ahumada, the Democratic mayor of Brownsville, called deploying Texas Rangers "an extremist and alarmist reaction to incidents that are happening in Mexico."

Laredo Mayor Raul Salinas, also a Democrat, complained local officials were not consulted. Eliot Shapleigh, a state representative from El Paso, suggested Perry was motivated by a primary challenge from U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson.

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Texas Border Coalition = Open Borders Lobby.

I'm not kidding.

Members include the Chamber of Commerce and that's all the evidence I need to support my claim.

Dixie

Originally Posted by Dixie

Texas Border Coalition = Open Borders Lobby.

I'm not kidding.

Members include the Chamber of Commerce and that's all the evidence I need to support my claim.

Dixie

I believe you. I gathered as much just from reading this article. In fact, unfortunately, its articles like this that sometimes make me think its too late to change such a mess now. This has gone on for so long and its gone so far, I feel discouraged at times about being able to reverse it. How did all these border towns end up with these pro-open borders mayors? Because the majority of their city's populations are illegal immigrants? Because the Texas border is already, in effect, Mexico North? Sorry, but its just SO so discouraging sometimes.

i think phone calls are needed to tell them just because they dont want it.
it doesnt mean texans dont want it, and it dont mean that ameircans dont want it