Texas AG on Immigration: Obama needs “to step up”

Foxnews.com ^ | 07/04/2010 | Lauren Torlone

[devane617]

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is calling on President Obama to secure the border between Texas and Mexico, following a Tuesday incident where shots in Juarez, Mexico crossed the border into El Paso and struck City Hall. Speaking Sunday on Fox News, Abbott said the U.S. - Mexico border, two-thirds of which lies in Texas, is a “very violent place” and that he’s been “underwhelmed by the show of force” coming from the Obama administration.

[devane617]

It's about time! Lots of hot-air has been blown from Austin over the immigration issue, but no one does anything about it.

[FrankR]

[devane617]

I saw a bumper sticker on a car yesterday like this and thought it was funny:

[basil]

Hey—once the shots start hitting City Hall—they DO get serious about it—LOL!

[Oldpuppymax]

The governor should ask for volunteers from among the citizens of Texas. A $100 bounty on illegals, dead or alive. The border would be secure in 24 hours.

[AuntB]

Underwhelmed ping!

“he’s been “underwhelmed by the show of force” coming from the Obama administration.”

[ViLaLuz]

The Gov. of Texas wants illegals to vote for him.

[upchuck]

Link no work. 404 error.

[HiJinx]

Ping!

[devane617]

Well, heck! it worked a few minutes ago when I posted. I posted the first paragraph from the story above, but it is now definitely gone.

[LA Woman3]

http://www.gregabbott.com/default.aspx

[LA Woman3]

[Windflier]

Hmm, you’re right. The article has gone bye-bye. All I see on the page is a stupid little smiley face thingy in the upper left hand corner.

[Windflier]

Now that is one very cool sticker.

[Gator113]

Obama is on it!!

History tells us that it takes a good 3 to 6 months to decide to actually send in reinforcement for such a surge, then only half of what you requested will be sent and it will take over 8 months for the boots to be on the ground.

Of course, they won’t be allowed to do much, other than die, so please, just hang on... help is on the way. Oh, please allow additional time as Obama must first figure out who he should blame for any problems.

[HiJinx]

Interesting - I pinged the story yesterday or the day before, let me see if I can find that link.

[LA Woman3]

I agree! I copied it from his facebook page. I never realized he was partially paralyzed until today.

[Doe Eyes]

The governor should ask for volunteers from among the citizens of Texas.

The Governor of Texas opposes the Arizona law regarding illegal immigrants.

[HiJinx]

I guess I haven’t seen it before now, but here’s the link I just found on Fox:

http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/07/04/texas-ag-on-immigration-obama-needs-%E2%80%9Cto-step-up%E2%80%9D/

[devane617]

He’s been in a wheelchair since college. He was jogging in a Houston neighborhood on the city sidewalk and a tree limb fell on him resulting in a spinal cord injury. He sued the home owner whose property the tree was on and won 10 million if I remember correctly.