Posted on 03/04/2009 9:02:24 PM PST by nysuperdoodle
In case you haven't noticed, the violence and mayhem along the Mexican border is spilling into the United States. Years of lackadaisical enforcement and a booming drug trade has spiraled the murder rate in what used to be a bucolically quiet region. Now south Texas is starting to look more and more like north Mexico... the highway in Brownsville was closed the other day because of a shootout.
Senator Cornyn sent this letter to Obama today, asking him to please enforce the borders. Fat chance, really... especially after Bush left it wide open after 9/11. Democrats probably love it... new Democrats streaming across the border every day. Cornyn should hope Obama doesn't send in the UN to police the area. You know that's coming soon.
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Well this was actually in Irving...but...I have a friend on the DPD and he said, recently, policies are changing, slow but changing. And of course Irving has a history with illegals also. LULAC is suing the City of Irving for deporting too many illegals. They have a lot to deport and so does Dallas.
We can only hope public pressure will change the minds of those city councils.
We at least have an ICE officer at the County jail here in Austin.
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