Perry's Border Deployment Questioned By Local Leaders

Fort Worth Star Telegram:

City and county leaders along the Texas-Mexico border, responding to Gov. Rick Perry's plans for a border-area deployment of Texas Rangers, on Wednesday challenged Perry's suggestions that the region is being overwhelmed by narco-crime from Mexico and called for greater cooperation between the governor's office and local officials.

"Your remarks, if accurately reported, create a public impression of lawless hordes overrunning the border region and do not reflect our collective experience," Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster, chairman of the Texas Border Coalition, said in a letter to Perry.

Read the whole story: Fort Worth Star Telegram

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[JudiBug]

Local leaders??? Local rich businessmen who want cheap labor will lead you right to your death.

[ReealOne]

Ya'll had best "reign" your governor Perry in down there. It sounds like he's spending GOVERNMENT monies that he doesn't have on a problem that doesn't exist. So much for "small government and 'fiscal responsibility'.... no surprises here.

It sounds more like him lining the pockets of some of his "main boyz" (specialized teams of Texas Rangers).

So all of this bunk about "fiscal responsibility and small government" is just..... what's the word I'm looking for..... oh yes, SELECTIVE and depends on who's party is in the White House.

[PlanoBlue]

Is that his hair or is he wearing a cow paddy?

[Travis76008]

Obama considers deploying National Guard to border
American Forces Press Service

As President Barack Obama considers deploying National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to control escalating violence, Arizona's governor has requested about 250 more National Guard troops on its border with Mexico, and the Texas governor is considering a similar action.


"We're going to examine whether, and if, National Guard deployments would make sense and in what circumstances they would make sense as part of this overall review of our border situation," Obama told reporters yesterday, according to media reports. The White House does not release transcripts of media roundtable sessions.


"I haven't drawn any conclusions yet," reporters said Obama told them. "I don't have a particular tipping point in mind."


While emphasizing that he does not want to "militarize" the border, Obama called it "unacceptable if you've got drug gangs crossing our borders and killing our citizens."

Meanwhile, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer sent a letter to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates requesting 250 more National Guard soldiers to be posted along the 350-mile Arizona-Mexico border.

Although Brewer has the authority to call up the troops, she asked Gates to mobilize them as part of the federally funded Joint Counter Narco-terrorism Task Force. That force currently includes about 150 Army and Air National Guard members.

Looks like Arizona is going to do it

[TXconfidnz]

Perry is a disgrace to my state. Unfortunately, unless another independent candidate like Kinky Friedman makes some noise in the gubernatorial race, I'm afraid we'll probably end up with Perry for another four years. Once you get out of the four major metro areas in Texas, what you have left is a sorry s#!tkicker culture that won't vote any other way but republican or secessionist... even though, in Texas, they're pretty much one in the same. Rick Perry has had his share of gaffes of outright disrespect to the United States as well as local leaders of our state. If he gets re-elected, it will only magnify the fact that my beautiful state ranks 48th in the country for literacy.

[Travis76008]

Feds announce $30 million for border law enforcement
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August 11, 2009 2:08 PM
Jared Taylor
The Monitor
EDINBURG — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday law enforcement has made gains in securing the U.S.-Mexico border, but local departments need more boots on the ground.

With that in mind, local officials told the secretary their concerns of violent crimes on the rise along the border.

McAllen Mayor Richard Cortez told Napolitano he and other local leaders are concerned about violent crime rates rising in rural areas.

“There seems to be a higher escalation in violent crimes in those rural areas where police and sheriff’s departments have less resources and personnel,” Cortez said in an interview.


dont blame perry blame napolitano she's the one doing it

[idisVA]

The Democratic Republic of Texas has deployed its national army along its border with Mexico.

[Travis76008]

actually it is just
The Republic of Texas

[AZterritory]

The Republican Republic of Texas . . . .

[zendem1]

Rick's having a problem right now because he knows the Bushes will insert Kay Bailey into the Governor's chair soon. They need her to be Jebbie's running mate when the time comes. Rick's sort of lost in the wilderness right now. No telling what he'll do.

[Dragline]

The guy looks like Herb Tarlek from WKRP.

[zendem1]

herb was smarter.

[Travis76008]

Rep. Ted Poe [R-TX2]:
Recently, I was down on the Texas-Mexico border.
We will start off in far west Texas, in El Paso, a large population. The Sheriff's Department says: About 18 percent of the people in our county jail are foreign nationals in the United States legally, illegally, charged with crimes, misdemeanors or felonies.
You move next door to Hudspeth County, a vast county the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island, not very many sheriff's deputies in that county. Sheriff Arvin West says: 90 percent of the people in my county jail are foreign nationals.
Moving on down the Rio Grande River toward the Gulf of Mexico, Culberson County Sheriff Carrillo, 22 percent. The three next counties, Jeff Davis, Presidio, and Brewster Counties did not have information that they could furnish me, so I will move on down the river and talk about the other ones.
Val Verde County, 39 percent of the people in the county jail are foreign nationals; Kinney County, 71 percent, foreign nationals; Maverick County, 65 percent; Dimmit County, 45 percent; Webb County, that is where Laredo is, 45 percent are foreign nationals; Zapata County, 65 percent; Starr County, 53 percent; Hidalgo County, 23 percent; and then Cameron County, down on the Mexico-Texas border that buttresses the Gulf of Mexico, is 28 percent.

[FeloniusMonk]

You guys got it all wrong. It was lunchtime. Governor Perry merely remarked to some of the Texas Rangers protecting him that they needed to make a run for the border. Unfortunately, they missunderstood that he wanted to eat at Taco Belle that day.

[Dbos]

funny fanned

[hrholmes]

Well I hope he put Walker Texas Ranger on the job! That'll learn them drug dealin mexican illegals not to mess wit Texas. lol

[SouthernYankeeBelle]

It is obvious that he is running for reelection and he has to put the fear of god in them so they will vote for sure shootin Ricky boy. Hubby just said they outa call cowboy W and his 6 shooters to help out. Yeah, bring it on, as George W would say.

[blackjedi47]

Whenever Rips start scaring the paying customers it means they need to mobilize a certain voting bloc cause the numbers for his side are getting thin. They need a good activist group down there so the population gets accurate and right representation. Texas ought to be a blue state-- I lived in Houston and have no doubt of it.

[Don Quixote]

Most people have no idea about the symbolic historical significance of this. To Mexicans and Americas of Mexican ancestry, the Texas Rangers in the 19th and early 20th centuries are akin to the KKK. We're talking lynchings, land thefts, evictions, massacres, etc.

The Rangers were among the major violators of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which guaranteed Mexicans-t­urned-Amer­icans continued property rights and cultural autonomy.

[blackjedi47]

Got a link or info on that we could read--I'm interested?

[20090120]

There are several, but try this one for a summary...http://www.houstonculture.org/hispanic/conquest4.html

[Don Quixote]

From the Handbook of Texas Online: http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/CC/pkcfl.html

Excerpt:
"In the 1880s, white men in East Texas used violence as a method of political control, and lynching became the common form of retaliation for alleged rapes of white women or for other insults or injuries perpetrated upon white society. Mexican Americans of South Texas experienced similar forms of brutality. The Ku Klux Klan, the White Caps, law officials, and the Texas Rangers, all acting as agents of white authority, regularly terrorized both Mexican Americans and black Texans...

... In 1919 the Brownsville legislator J. T. Canales spearheaded a successful effort to reduce the size of the Texas Ranger force in the wake of various atrocities the rangers had committed in the preceding decade."

Also any good non-revisionist history book on the aftermath of the Mexican-American War should cover the true legacy of the Rangers. I went to the Texas Ranger museum in San Antonio last year. Made my stomach turn.

[bobwalters]

Part II: Granted, some drug abuse causes inestimable harms, but these are best dealt with by a public health approach. But if anyone thinks there will be enacted sensible drug policy in the US, just follow the money and see who benefits from continuation of making recreational use of drugs illegal. An ominous side-effect is the growing militarization of local and state law enforcement organizations, and ties the money creates to Federal agencies. Interlocking interests and dependencies of local law enforcement agencies with those of the Feds creates a situation ripe for exploitation by any would-be dictatorship.

I suspect, but couldn't prove, that at least part of the simmering rage being manipulated and exploited by the very folks who would welcome a totalitarian regime (until they got it) is a result of some subliminal awareness of the dangers on the part of the outraged. Ever since Tricky Dick & his merry men were in the White House, the country has been slowly sliding toward just such a scenario. Regrettably, for too many of the outraged, their awareness is mostly subliminal, and they haven't connected the dots to create a realistic picture. Hence, they mindlessly strike out at Obama and the return of Democratic majorities in Congress without realizing that this change offers the best hope for AVOIDING the fascist, totalitarian outcome. Ignorance rules.