Posted on 11/19/2014 8:39:57 PM PST by Olog-hai
Illegal crossings along the Rio Grande have slowed dramatically since an overwhelming surge of immigrants had state and federal agents scrambling to secure the border earlier this year. Texas leaders still don’t want their ground troops to leave just yet.
As the federal government is downsizing its presence on Texas’ southern border, key state officials are proposing that when about 1,000 National Guard troops go home in the spring they be replaced with state troopers who would remain on duty until August.
The plan calls for spending an extra $86 million to extend a border security mission that Gov. Rick Perry ordered in June as unaccompanied immigrant children crossed into the state in record numbers. While local law enforcement agencies say the extra resources are no longer needed, outgoing Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst defended the strategy. …
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Time for Texas to quintuple the size of its state police — and arm them REAL well.
It’s probably about time for Texas to start taking its border security SERIOUSLY, as well as other aspects of nationhood.
pshaw
Texas loves illegals
TX State Troopers used to be armed with Sig .45’s. They changed that to Sig 357Sig’s. I asked why, and was told “failure to stop” regarding the .45’s.
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress
I would think, if they had any cajones at all, could fund militia's (apart from the National Guard, which was found not to be a militia) in the border States to repel an Invasion that we know is coming.
Obama will probably make it illegal to stop anyone at the border.
The insurrection is at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
This piecemeal con is insulting.
Not the bunch we just elected to run our government...
New Sheriffs in town.
Also higher magazine capacity and accuracy.
“The insurrection is at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”....
I agree but who’s going in to slap the cuffs on the SOB?
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