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."
Something is terribly wrong in D.C., it was like this with Bush and everyone else with the border. They are intentionally going out of their way not to protect the border.
Something very bad is going on right now involving some very evil people and for some reason Americans are just sitting back and letting it happen.
I am no longer an optimist for this country’s future.
I hope the Lord grants that as well, the world w/o the faithful who love the Lord in the USA would be much darker, I believe the Lord is holding back His hand until the last has believed that will believe as a sign of His mercy, for it is not His intention that any would perish, So I can understand punishing America as we obviously have Babylon the whore tendencies as well, no more tham other countries, but in order to ease the suffering of the faithful as we await our last brothers and sisters belief and forgiveness..
He would not wait so long if this was not the reason..
ping for your consideration
We revolted from England in part, because:
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us
For lentulusgracchus, it is past time you border states invoked Article IV Section 4 of the Constitution and demand the federal government “protect each of them (states) against Invasion;”
This guy is a f@#$%&! idiot! Not only that he is a fraudulent POS,that is HELL bent on taking America down.Someone needs to arrest him-GET THE TRIAL ON!!!
If this is put into effect, then the states should set up the following:
AND we no longer have control or presence of the Panama Canal last I heard the Chinese do.
MGM files for bankruptcy as often as Hollywood raises the price of tickets.
Since Hollywood is controlled by Washington, maybe Obama didn’t want any right-wing films coming out during his tenure. Gotta keep everyone soma’ed up on “Modern Family” and his namesake, “America’s Biggest Loser.”
The tell will be if the project lands somewhere else, or if it just disappears.
There’s something else afoot. Create a crisis? He takes his orders from others.
Quite plausibly so.thx.
More than warranted.
Chinese on both ends.
Interesting.
Thx.
Well, I suppose it hit a nerve, don’t you?
I don’t get it. Obama can deploy national guardsmen anywhere he wants and the fed picks up the tab, but if Texas deploys them to the Texas border, they have to pick up the tab?
Texas, Arizona should tell the administration to piss up a rope and pay for it, using all the money they spend on illegals.
Exactly. So when do the American people start standing up for their beliefs and stop the Feds from running their lives? States need to start enforcing their states rights. The Feds forget one important thing....”We The People”. The time has come, starting the first of the year, that the people of this great country begin to demand our rights. The rights of a Republic that was founded on certain beliefs and one of those beliefs is that the government does not run our lives, we run the lives of our government. Our people are ready to do this. I believe this in my heart. We are a Judeo/Christian nation and need to remain that way. Respecting all Religions and not foster cults to the detriment of our Religions. We have to encourage our people to the extent that our forefathers had it right. Start standing up folks and we can bring our Nation back to what we believe in. We have to do this not just for ourselves but for the lives of our children and grandchildren.
True.
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