For the time being, Gov. Perry should send the Texas Rangers to the border.
Sept 10, 2009: Perry deploys ‘Ranger Recon' to the border "Gov. Rick Perry announced Thursday he's sent a special contingent of Texas Rangers called “Ranger Recon” to hot spots along the Texas-Mexico border to engage drug and human smugglers.
Perry said the special teams — drawn from the state's elite 144-officer Texas Ranger division — began operating in early August in remote areas on the Texas border where cartels and human smugglers have “overrun” private farms and ranches.
The division is supported by 200 Texas National Guard members, part of what the governor described as a continuation of $110 million in state-funded operations to contend with the fallout from Mexico's increasingly violent drug war.".....
July 7, 2011: Obama unveils drug strategy......." Texas border lawmakers have long pressed the Obama administration to integrate local and state agencies in federal strategies on the border.
...The updated strategy comes one month after President Barack Obama ordered a three-month extension of 1,200 National Guardsmen for the U.S.-Mexico border.
Only 250 of those troops were deployed in Texas, where Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican eyeing a White House bid, has criticized the president of short-changing Lone Star state on border security."
July 18, 2011: Issa and Grassley Seek More Fast and Furious Info....""On March 15, 2011, Senator Grassley sent you a letter requesting a briefing to gain a better understanding of the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) involvement in Operation Fast and Furious," the letter to DEA administrator Michele Leonhart reads. "Nearly four months later, your agency has yet to respond directly."
The questions for the FBI are even more pointed and include requests for details of the investigation into the murder of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer Jamie Zapata. Zapata was unarmed and gunned down, along with a fellow agent who was wounded, in northern Mexico in February.
"To help us better understand the role of the FBI in this multi-agency...case, we request that you produce communications relating to Operation Fast and Furious by FBI personnel based in Phoenix, Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, and El Paso, Texas..." the letter to FBI director Robert Mueller read."....