Posted on 11/18/2010 12:36:26 PM PST by markomalley
The Obama Administration plans to withdraw National Guard troops from the Texas, New Mexico and California borders by the end February under a new Southwest security plan, even as turmoil in Mexican border cities grows, according to documents obtained by The Washington Examiner.
A letter sent to various members of the Texas Congressional delegation from Texas' Gov. Rick Perry's office says, "In February, 2011, the Texas, New Mexico, and California National Guard forces that were deployed to the border in September, 2010, under President's Obama's Southwest Border Augmentation Plan, will have 30 days to complete a total draw down of forces."
The roughly 550 troops will have the month of February to redeploy back to their units, Texas Congressman Ted Poe told The Examiner. Troops would not be pulled off the Arizona border under the plan, and about 100 of the troops would re-deploy there from other states, officials said.
Poe received the letter today. His office confirmed with Department of Homeland Security officials that the plan came from the administration.
"I'm surprised the president would so quickly remove troops from Texas. They're not supposed to leave until July," said Poe.
The congressman recently traveled to Falcon Lake, where the ongoing investigation into the death of American tourist David Hartley's is ongoing. Tiffinay Hartley, 29, reported that her husband had been shot while riding his jet ski.
"It's apparently a plan the Obama administration believes will save money. We don't need fewer National Guard we need more. We need to pass the Border National Guard Border enforcement act that would put 10,000 National Guard on the border," Poe said.
The 286 Texas National Guard covered by the plan have only been fully operational since September and October of this year. They will have spent less than six months conducting operations along the border, an official with the Texas Governor's office said.
Obama's original Southwest border plan would have ended in July, 2011. According to officials familiar with the new initiative the "Administration budgeted only $135 million for the entire deployment."
The funds, which were originally budgeted to those three states, are expected to be reallocated to allow Arizona an additional 100 troops from March through September, 2011 or, "until such time as that money is exhausted," the letter from the governor's office stated.
"This new plan was designed without any input from the States, and without any significant DHS resources being deployed to the border since the beginning of operations," it said.
Poe said there is "no question about it, the federal government should cut back on spending but not national defense."
The letter to Texas lawmakers said, "Even under the new plan their is still no guarantee that Arizona will have their troops until September. In fact, the Administration has made it clear that once the $135 million has been spent, all operations must cease and desist immediately."
The DHS Border and Custom's Protection agency would "restart the ATEP (Alien Transfer and Exit Program) program that brings detained
illegal aliens from other states to Del Rio where they will be released to Mexican officials across the border," according to the
letter.
Mexican news outlets have documented a sharp rise in violence, including drug related murders, in cities near the U.S. border.
"Border violence is on the rise," Poe said. "And Washington is incorrect when they say the border is secure."
Obama is thinking... oh heck we don’t have enough illegal voters to get me elected anymore.... hm.... I know!
OPEN THE BORDERS!!!
God he is scum.
I agree.
The way its going we should sit down at a table and split it up..the dimorats can run there side as communist and we can have a thriving democracy..They would have no one to rob, and they would look like ethiopia in no time..
Obama spent more $$$ in one day in India than it would cost to protect the Mexican border for a year or more!
You make a very good point.
This POS masquerading as a president has to be forced out of the WH. Hopefully he’ll either go publicly barking mad, be found wandering around outside a “gay” bar under the influence of something and be outed that way, the Dems knock on his door and force him to resign, or the courts and Congress finally do their job and kick has *ss out and file whatever charges they need to against him and whoever helped him.
It’s gone on long enough. Every single freaking action he takes is destroying our country bit by bit.
Can they build a big old WALL before they pull back? Please? Pretty please?
So is this the Mexico Plan he’s going with? You know, the one where the US pulls back to the Mississippi?
Impeach.
AND CONVICT!
by the end February under a new Southwest security plan, even as turmoil in Mexican border cities growsThe February surprise -- a little somethin' for the incoming Congress. Thanks markomalley.
HIDEOUSNESS GONE TO SEED.
“Impeach. AND CONVICT!”
There will never be enough senators with enough cajones to convict a POTUS. At least enough R senators to convict a D POTUS>
It's not surrender from Obama's point of view, since his allegiance is not to us. He considers an open border a great victory.
"Get off our land. We own your so-called American nation, today. This is Aztlan We have taken over all your construction jobs, restaurant jobs, landscaping and farming jobs. And we want all your jobs !"
We Have No Choice: We Must Impeach Obama ! 
I looked it up a few years ago, it's astonishing; IIRC it's around 10,000 or so.
"Most of the fast food places around here are staffed with young Hispanic people who speak English rather poorly."
Indeed. I have two young sons who can't find work. Parents used to tell their kids to study hard, otherwise they'd "end up flippin' burgers...." now those entry level jobs are no longer available to the native-born workforce.
“They would have no one to rob, and they would look like ethiopia in no time..”
An Ethiopia with high-tech weapons, a radical communist ideology and a hatred towards it’s free Southern neighbor. Just like North Korea.
Letting the blue states leave would haunt us for generations. The first thing they would do is ally themselves with China, if not sign over a few states as an “apology” for being “too capitalist” in the past.
I wonder . . .
could this be a planned . . . strategic move to facilitate the Chinese and Mexicans advancing on the Southwestern states more easily and more rapidly at the start of WWIII . . . as many have had dreams and visions of?
. . . e.g. Dimitru Duduman . . .
Would fit OThuga’s destructive efforts to shred the USA in behalf of his globalist minders and masters.
That and other strange bits and pieces are not pleasant to contemplate . . .
So many puzzle pieces indicate that some major conflagration has been inched forward in many ways the last several months.
1. The Israel/ Iran/ Palestinian/ Lebanon/ Syria/ Turkey/ etc. etc. has been noised about repeatedly from increasing numbers of directions with varying frequencies and intensities.
2. The Al-satan-Queda/ terrorist/ Mexican drug lord/ etc. memes have been increasingly noised about as well as have demonstrated increasing forays, murders, plots, bombs, murders, . . .
3. Noises about China encroaching on our interests and forces in a diversity of places & ways have increased with some alarming specific examples.
4. North Korea and related noises and actions have varied but also . . . I think . . . the slope of the averaged line has increased up a bit.
5. Muzzie outrages in the Western world and particularly in the USA have increased somewhat dramatically in specific types as well as generally in number and in intensity.
6. Congressional/ administrative/ pseudo legal absurdities and treasonous outrages have increased regardless of the Nov SElection.
7. Economic catastrophes appear to have been wound up tighter and spread broader.
8. Castrophes vis a vis food supplies and distribution as well as vitamins and supplements seem to have been cocked and readied ever more threateningly.
9. Even the EMPulse thing has been wound a bit tighter with various rumored Chinese exercises and intentions.
10. Iran’s military exercises have gotten more dramatic, shrill and ‘in-your-face.’
What does it all mean?
This ain’t Kansas any more Dorothy.
The mighty o is playing a game with the Conservatives to see who will blink first. They should provide additional funding for border security and take it away from social programs, perhaps even reduce or eliminate funding for white house security, that being obama’s ‘border security’.
We are not defenseless down here you know. Eventually we will have to just deal with it on our own if the little dictator does the amnesty he plans.
The reason Obama is pulling back the national guard troops is because the narcotrafficantes must have paid him off as he intended them to. The reason the Mexican army is shooting the narcotraficantes by the dozen graveyard dead on sight over the border is that the drug cartels have failed to pay off the politicos down there on time. A very lot of money is changing hands every day in this unregulated business and the politicos are a very important influence just like in any major business, and they require to be bought off big time in the drug trade (or any other big business) or people are going to have bad days. Just ask people in the car companies, banks, insurance companies, oil companies how it has been going for them lately - just ask the military how its going in their business for that matter.
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