Posted on 09/24/2009 4:01:20 PM PDT by VU4G10
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press Writers Christopher Sherman And Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press Writers – Thu Sep 24, 3:37 pm ET
McALLEN, Texas – Rancher Mike Landry recently came upon a group of unarmed men dressed in camouflage burglarizing his guest house and stealing a truck from his 11,000 acres in Terrell County, rugged country bordering the Rio Grande in West Texas.
A couple of shots over their heads from his hunting rifle kept nine of them, all Mexican citizens, in place until Border Patrol agents arrived.
"It has really gotten to be pretty spooky," said Landry, who has run cattle in the area for 29 years.
Stories like Landry's seem to bolster Gov. Rick Perry's recent decision to send elite teams from the state's top law enforcement agency, the Texas Rangers, to remote borderlands to help them with security and deter a spillover of the gruesome drug-war violence plaguing Mexico. But Landry's situation never grew violent, and many other ranchers, sheriffs and politicians along Texas' 1,200 mile border with Mexico found the governor's announcement puzzling.
"We have landowners all along the border who are finding their farms and ranches overrun by smuggling operations," Perry said in an announcing how he would spend a fraction of the $110 million the Legislature approved this year for border security.
Since security was tightened at checkpoints in cities like El Paso and Laredo, immigrants and smugglers have been squeezed into places like Terrell County. The county sits between Big Bend National Park, which is too arid for safe passage, and Del Rio, another high-security spot.
Though traffic is up, people in those areas say they fall far short of being "overrun."
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Terrell County, not to be confused with the town of the same name. Terrell County is nothing but Cactus.
*Texas Rangers to the border ping*
Three U.S. citizens from New Mexico were murdered in a motel in Juarez during the past two days. A fourth victim was the intended target. Overkill?
Why wait until ranchers start being murdered - I see no reason NOT to place Texas Rangers along the border.
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
“...and many other ranchers, sheriffs and politicians along Texas’ 1,200 mile border...”
No wonder they are confused. Most of them are relatives of those coming across, have vested financial gains to be made, or are just downright corrupt.
Down here in South Texas we don’t live in the United States; we live in Texaco...complete with the corrupt way of life that has immigrated from Mexico.
LOL, nice to see some new ones. Thanks for posting.
It’d be cheaper to give every Texas/Mexico border resident free ammo, and no-tell access to a backhoe. Folks will solve their own problems if the means to do so are available.
One riot. One Ranger.
Chuck Norris can fry bacon without a shirt on.
No Country For Old Men.
FYI: I once stayed at the exact same motel where Anton Chigur went looking for the money in that film.
“But Landry’s situation never grew violent”
He fired a gun and held people at gunpoint but that wasn’t violence? No violence, no need for a gun. He’s talking out of both sides of his mouth.
One of the stupidest statements I have ever heard. Anyone who knows a Texas Ranger personally has nothing but respect for them. They are quiet, effective and almost invisible. (Except to the Perps)
They are Welcome anywhere in Texas.
Title is a bit misleading. I think most people think of “Army Ranger” when you say “Rangers”.
“...we live in Texaco...”
Mexas.
Title is a bit misleading. I think most people think of “Army Ranger” when you say “Rangers”.
‘cept in Texas....
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