Texas Lt. Governor: We Shut Down the Border Ourselves

BY STEVE STRAUB ON DECEMBER 7, 2013 · LEAVE A COMMENT · IN CURRENT EVENTS

 This shows that the primary reason our border with Mexico is so porous is because both parties lack the political will to seal it.

Via Breitbart News:

Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst announced a Texas-led three-week effort that he says reduced illegal immigration, smuggling, and human trafficking to a standstill in the Rio Grande River section of the U.S./Mexico border.

The Lt. Governor spoke with me in an interview for Breitbart News; he stated: “In the Rio Grande Valley sector, nearly nothing moved in those three weeks. We shut it down. We had teams of Texas law enforcement in the brush, high altitude aircraft, gun boats, and more,” he explained. “Our intel revealed that the Gulf cartel was growing frustrated with our three-week effort.”

“The border issue is just about dollars and cents,” Dewhurst said. “This proves Texas can do the job the federal government has refused to do — to invest in the border and shut it down from illegal activities that are hurting Texans and other Americans.” He added: “Texas will protect our own citizens and other Americans from the criminal gangs that are destabilizing our state and our nation.”

How can Congress even begin to consider a deal on immigration when the President not only refuses to enforce current immigration law, but thinks he has the power to rewrite immigration law as he sees fit!

http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/c...rder-ourselves