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."
You are exactly right. And the Gangs are also part of the whole scheme.
We couls see bloodshed in America within 6 months.
Obama is insane.
“Groups of youths” is the proper pc term.
So.
He originally sent down what, 1,200? Even if you grant that all 1,200 will be on boarder patrol (which they won’t, because some percentage will be dedicated to support roles), you still have to divide that 1,200 into three shifts per day. So, that’s a max of 400 on patrol at any one time—to cover a 2,000 mile boarder. So each soldier has 5 miles to cover by themselves.
So new he is reducing the 1,200 to 650. Now each soldier has 9 miles to cover instead of 5.
So what? 5 miles, 9 miles, either is impossible to cover.
“Groups of youths” is the proper pc term.
You mean that’s what we’re supposed to call the scumbag, no count, disgusting punks?
Texas Rangers, Arizona rangers lots of guns, round em up prison camps on bread and water.
do nothing California can go to hell. New Mexico doesn’t matter
and we may eventually become two. I really don’t necessarily think that might be a bad thing. The hatred and division grows. I don’t see how we can survive as one nation. It’s not like it used to be and it’s no fun living in a country where 2 parties hate each other so much and have such different values.
If Mexico wins, it’s because we are boot lickers. There is no other excuse except that they have more balls than we do.
Hussein’s “political hometown”:
“Prosecutors said Derrion was pummelled with wooden planks and kicked in the head after he found himself in (sic) caught in a brawl between two groups of youths near his school. Officials said the fight had followed a shooting earlier in the day outside the school, involving the two groups.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6853585.ece
si. saca te lo, y pone otra vez
Not if he had been President of the Confederate States
_________________
LOL! I can assure you no southerner would have voted for that sorry POS back then. NOT A SINGLE ONE!
“If Obama were President during the Civil War we would be two separate nations today.”
He may indeed become exactly that (CWII).
Perhaps this time, the best final outcome just might be two separate nations.
The existing USA is already becoming too “divided” to remain a single nation much longer.
The fact that someone like Obama (who certainly doesn’t represent traditional Americans, and who may not even _be_ an “American” himself) got elected in the first place proves how real such divisions have become.
It’s like 1856 all over again.
This is crazy with so much violence just across the border!
We are not using the correct rhrtoric to make out point. We should call it what it is:
The Mexican Civil War
The Mexican government does not control large areas of the country. In other areas there is open figiting between the government and non-governmental groups to determine who will control that area. That is, by definition, the description of a civil war.
We should be clear that there is a civil war—a shoting civil war—going on in Mexico, and that war is spilling over into the United States.
This isn’t about stopping some dirt poor illegal immigrant from crossing the border to seek a job (how the MSM and Dems frame it), it is about stopping the Mexican Civil War from spilling over in the USA.
What is different is that instead of having groups that want to take control of the govt. for political purposes, you have drug cartels that want to take control of the government for economic and criminal purposes. But at the end of the day, it is a civil war.
This is part of Barry’s “payback” for the rejection of his agenda by the voters
What a farce.
Work it out by border counties. We did it as a staff college exercise back in the 1990s.
Now I suspect such an operation wouldn't even be considered.
The Democrats want as many illegal aliens in the U.S. as possible.
They need these troops at the airports because the only ones being monitored now in this police country are American citizens.
The Demorats are protecting the Drug Cartels and the Supply of Drugs to their Inner City Drug Markets! Does anybody believe that Billions of Drug Profits are NOT flowing to the Demorats and their Pay to Play Thugacracys? The Demorats don’t give a Rats’ Ass about some poor Mexican Peasant wanting to come across the Border to better their Life!
It’s about time We call the RATS on their real Motive of Destroying America and Mexico in order to protect their Drug Supplys and Drug Profits!
Have you seen this yet?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.