You ask if Americans care, I believe we do. If not, it's the job of the politician to bring this news to Americans and inspire them to care. That's my beef with the (elected)GOP. Most of them seem to care only about their re-election and their own career. They seem to believe that avoiding all controversy is the way to protect themselves. The way to avoid all controversy is never to say anything and stay in the corner in the fetal position.
Look how grassroots activists have made Common Core into a poison pill. If you want to avoid defeat, you NOW must come out against Common Core. Gov. Bobby Jindal has just removed Common Core from Louisiana and looks to have jumped in with both feet to use Common Core as one basis for a potential Presidential campaign.
That's how's it done, light a fire under their butts.
Using the exclusion of the Press puts us on the right side of the 1st Amendment and Free Speech and busts the perceptions of the low information voters about conservatives. Two, it attacks the press for being so bias and so in the tank for Obama, that they aren't covering this major story about the conditions little brown children are living in courtesy of the caring compassionate Obama Administration. Three, it has a chance of getting results.
Yes, I got a response from the TX Governr’ office.
It went like this verbatim: “..the governor is being briefed by the federal government of the activity at border.” The FEDERAL GOVERNMENT informs the sittng governor of TEXAS! In the absence of any media, with border patrol agents under threat by feds, if they speak to, or allow, a reporter anywhere near the action.
My opinion:
Truly? On this issue,... without media coverage and support, a BLACKOUT in progress, the Governor would have to decide to go to jail first, himself, before he dared to take matters of state rights into his own hands. And the citizen militia, if Perry did decide to be jailed, would be in danger if they were called to arms by Perry, or even if they alone determined on their own to act to protect the border. They might not enjoy jail, they might be shot, or injured by the feds.
State rights are dead, apparently. We need media there.