Staples calls for beefed-up border security

October 1, 2011

By Walt Nett

AVALANCHE-JOURNAL


Texas needs more boots on the ground to protect farmers and ranchers along the Mexican border from incursions by Mexican drug cartel gunmen, the state’s agricultural commissioner said Friday.

“We’ve got 64 percent of the border, and only 44 percent of the Border Patrol agents,â€