Posted on 02/01/2016 4:18:28 PM PST by mandaladon
Gov. Greg Abbott and U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Laredo Democrat, pressed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Monday to explain why the agency plans to reduce its aerial surveillance on the Texas-Mexico border.
In a letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, the lawmakers said the cut to a requested 3,850 hours of aerial detection and monitoring in 2016 amounts to 50 percent less coverage than recent years.
“Given the recent surge of migrants from Central America and Cuba along the southern border, we believe DHS should request more surveillance and security resources, not fewer,†Abbott and Cuellar wrote in a letter.
The pair also reminded Johnson that in September, Abbott’s office asked the DHS for more aerial resources and U.S. Border Patrol agents but that the request was never acknowledged.
A DHS spokesperson said the agency would respond "directly" to the governor and the congressman.
Monday’s request comes as CBP is reporting a new surge in the number of undocumented immigrants crossing the Rio Grande. From October to December of 2015, about 10,560 unaccompanied minors entered Texas illegally through the Rio Grande Valley sector of the U.S. Border Patrol. That marks a 115 percent increase over the same time frame in 2014. The amount of family units, defined as at least one child and adult guardian or parent, has increased by 170 percent to 14,336 in the Rio Grande Valley.
The El Paso sector also saw 1,030 unaccompanied minors, an increase of almost 300 percent.
In Monday’s letter, the pair also requested a detailed breakdown of how the DHS determined the reduction in aerial surveillance was warranted and information on how staffing and operation levels would be affected.
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They want more mexicans coming over.
Why? I will tell you why....they don’t have enough votes yet to outvote us.
Update: The Feds responded early this afternoon to explain aerial monitoring does no good at stopping border incursions and the Obama Administration has instead deployed 50,000 members of various U.S. armed forces to secure the border.
Can somebody photo shop the Mexican flag on his lapel?
a) Escalate 'Cloward & Piven' strategy to collapse America
b) Democrat voter registration drive
c) Displace and disenfranchise whitey
d) All of the above
Three blacks in key positions, doing whatever they want to do because of their skin color. Exploiting America's reluctance to hold blacks accountable for ANYTHING for fear of retaliation or simply being called 'racist'.
LOL. Thanks
IF one thinks as weirdly as I do one might ask why the Governor of Texas, and a Texas Congressman know about the reduction in aerial surveillance, but know nothing about 50,000 armed forces being dispatched to the area.
One might think the Governor, and the Congressman are being BS’d by the Democrat in the White House again.
“Because we can”?
Because the motto of the Obmaunists is “Death to America”
So they can vote democrat
So, what is the cost if we just BUILT THE FENCE, and stopped just counting the mexicans crossing the border illegally?
Or does Oboma want to know how many illegals crossed the border, so he knows how many failed to go vote at his next election in the right places?
If you are the Governor of Texas, would you send the National Guard...or whine like a baby to the Feds, please do something, please do something. This Governor of Texas is a worthless ATNA typical politician.
Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!
If Abbott doesn’t want illegals flooding over the border, perhaps Abbott should stop handing out food stamp applications—with voter registration applications included—to illegals.
The food stamp application merely requires the “immigrant” to fill in an “immigrant registration number” in the appropriate blank.
That’s the number on paperwork issued by the “Border Patrol” during the catch-and-release process, which the “immigrant” is supposed to present to the judge when he/she “shows up” years later at a “deportation hearing.”
Once qualified for food stamps, then that opens the door to eligibility for housing, medical, a myriad of other freebies.
We’re essentially enticing them, paying them, to break our laws.
Turn off the spigot. Problem begins to solve itself.
Abbott’s another fake conservative.
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