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."
Why is he pulling protection away from our southern border? What does he plan to put in its place?
The sign looks like those posted along railroad rights-of-way. “Visitors may ... encounter vehicles traveling at high rates of speed.” This is another kind of railroad, one that transports illegal drugs (and the money that comes with them, there’s LOTS of money in drugs and who knows what it is funding?) and crime.
So BO’s policies appear to be creating and protecting a railroad that transports drugs, drug money, and crime. It’s a clear right-of-way from the border to Phoenix in AZ, from Tijuana to San Diego in California, etc.
I feel like watching "Red Dawn" again.
The Texas Guard needs to be deployed to the border ASAP with guns and ammo. First order of business when state legislators convene should be to divert money allocated for all programs which could possibly be used to benefit illegals to the support of this military effort.
lol....exactly.
Here's the trailer to the remake. It was supposed to be realeased this fall (2010)...but has been put off to an unknown date, if it is released at all.
Maybe someone didn't want to promote the idea of Americans fighting off the Chicoms.
realeased=released:)
so we can go around the world chasing windmills in places like iraq and Afghanistan, but we cant afford to secure our own border.......the US government is like an insane sociopath that robs its own people and then squanders all the confiscated wealth
For the love of God can we somehow get this bass turd POS out of office before he ruins us to the point of no return!!!!
We are being attacked from every direction by different groups hell bent on destroying our republic.
Where in the hell are the politicians who took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution? Where is the military to defend and protect the Constitution, our country and We The People....WE ARE UNDER ATTACK FROM WITHIN!
Obama, You are moving me to activism. You have already suffered one of the most brutal defeats of any midterm elections on record. You will be a has been with absolutely no legacy of note it you keep going the way you are going. I for one want you to secure the borders and buildup the national guard in our border states; not decimate the guard. Two: Get the hell out of Iraq and Afghanistan much faster than you are doing now. You will lose in 2012 miserably and put more Republicans in office if you don’t get it right. Don’t blow it, listen up and represent the people instead of your own out of touch agenda.
Well, there goes the state education budget. We're educating half the kids in northern Mexico.
Uh, the Army is out there on the People's business, or had you forgotten?
Osama Bin Laden's whole strategy since before the Khobar Towers was to get us to come up there into Afghanistan, onto his prepared battlefield on which he had just defeated the Russians, and do a "Rope-a-Dope" war with us. Whenever we got tired of punching and went home, he'd declare victory, reveal himself to be the new Saladin, stake his claim to be the Protector of the Shrine Cities, and kick the House of Saud out of the Arabian peninsula.
It's always been about Osama, Lion of Islam (and you ain't).
For us, it's about thousands of dead, the prospect of millions of dead, and cleaning these fanatics out the way the British did in in the Sudan in the 1880's and 1890's: Grind them down, make their Mahdi into a liar and a false prophet, and wait for his own fuzzy-wuzzies to kill him.
INDEED.
His bosses plan to put in their place . . .
armed uniformed
—Mexicans
—Chinese
—Venezuelans
—Cubans
—Nicaraguans
. . . advancing North and East.
INDEED.
. . . though a poor approximation of what’s ahead.
Interesting.
I wondered what happened to it.
Too close to planned reality, I gather.
Dr E . . . any rumors in your realm about the reasons for the remake of Red Dawn’s release being held back?
Interesting.
I wondered what happened to it.
Too close to planned reality, I gather.
Very planned.
Deplete our military capacity and occupy most of our troops elsewhere . . .
And open our underbelly to our fiercest enemies.
Treason to the max.
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