I believe the Rangers have planes with infrared and other bells and whistles to locate illegals,cartel etc and relay info to LE on the ground. Perry says we need more.
We are at WAR on the Border and anyone that doesn’t say so is lying to you.
http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2011/04/not_a_mile_of_b.php
Not ‘A Mile’ of Border Secure, Texas Sheriff Says
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Penny Starr, CNS News (Cybercast News Service), April 11, 2011
Texas Sheriff Tomas Herrera said he does not agree with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s assessment of security at the U.S.-Mexico border as being “better than it has ever been.”
Herrera, in a telephone interview with CNSNews.com, said that not “a mile” of the 85-mile stretch of border in Maverick County, Texas, which is separated from Mexico by the Rio Grande River, is secure and that the violence of Mexican drug cartels is spilling over into the United States as cartels come into Texas and kidnap teenagers for their smuggling operations.
“They come in and kidnap some of our citizens in this county and take them into Mexico,” Herrera told CNSNews.com. “We’re talking about young kids.”
“These are high school kiddos and junior high kids that are used by the cartels to smuggle drugs into the United States,” said Herrera, who has been in law enforcement for 37 years and sheriff of Maverick County for five.
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But the local paper in Eagle Pass, Texas, The News Gram, published a story on March 31 about a press conference held by the Eagle Pass Police Department and an official from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s regional office.
“It is perhaps one of the dirtiest secrets in Eagle Pass,” the article stated. “Young men and women kidnapped in our area and taken across the border, held for ransom or simply made to disappear.
“The whispers echo in high school gymnasiums, restaurants and churches and they all tell a sobering story—it happens and it happens often,” the article stated.
The law enforcement officials warned parents to tell their children about the dangers of associating with drug cartel members. In one case, still under investigation, a 17-year-old boy was picked up “and held captive in Mexico while his family collected enough money to pay a ransom,” the article stated.
“Chief of Police Tony Castaneda has made it publicly known that area teenagers are being targeted for initiation by Mexican drug cartels in what is quickly becoming a losing battle in the US /Mexico Drug War,” stated the article. {snip}
Herrera said that kidnappings aren’t the only violence that is spilling over from Mexico. He said ranchers and other residents feel constantly threatened by drug cartel activity in the county.
“The ranchers up here are afraid to be out there by themselves,” Herrera said. “They are all armed.”
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Herrera said houses have been burglarized and even cattle stolen and transported across the river to Mexico.
Herrera said more manpower—“boots on the ground”—is needed to stem Mexican drug cartel violence, and if Napolitano comes to visit Maverick County he would show her what his department faces on a daily basis.
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Texas governor sends Rangers to Mexico border
Perry accuses federal government of failing to ‘adequately secure’ zone
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32793136/ns/us_news-security/
You can always tell when Perry is running for office. It’s when he comes out swinging and talking big. Unfortunately, it’s all for show. He’s had 25 years to do something about the border, yet he’s done jack.
So Perry is going to “pay” out of Texas’ pocket to enforce federal law like he’s been so criticized for not doing?
How many years has it taken him to get started????
For two months the media has covered this story like a blanket and neglected very important stories that could be life and death matters for the nation and it's citizens.
It has taken four score and more years to come to this, but I really despise today's media.
Perry mostly talks about the Drug Lords and drug trafficking... but seldom does he say anything serious about REAL ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION... Perry is an opportunist and a BIG SOFTY on illegal aliens... Perry gave a positive talk to La Raza - the most RACIST group in the USA...
Perry is certainly telling the truth. Obama is not only lying, but doesn’t care what happens in TX anymore than he cares about Arizona. Life on the southern border with Mexico is getting more and more dangerous with more deaths each week. Obama is totally ignorant of what is going on. The Gun Runner project is a prime example.
What is really going on:
Watch this bone chilling video and then forward to everyone you know.
http://www.morningstartv.com/oak-initiative/marxism-america
I would hope the Texans are having a big ol belly laugh with this one.
He wants to get elected. He knows we still have the same problem because he and the legislature have done nothing about securing the border except expel a lot of gas.
The federal government claims the southwest border is more secure than it’s ever been.
Everyone feel safer now?. /s
This is what will define if or how a Texan will get back into the Whitehouse, it does seem like a lot of past Presidents do come from Texas.
This whole mess in the end is really the fault of We the People.
We have let politicians get away with peeing all over us...and calling it rain ..for decades. And we act surprised then when the consequences cost us.
As a nation we are reaping the consequences of being asleep at the wheel.
Ping!