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If Perry wanted the border secured the Texas National Guard would already be doing it.

7 posted on 08/21/2011 4:42:57 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)

We already spend a good bit of Texas money on border security. Perhaps the feds should pay for a bit of their responsibility.

11 posted on 08/21/2011 4:45:09 PM PDT by jospehm20

He did not have the authority since it must be approved by the Federal Government, primarily the Administration.

17 posted on 08/21/2011 4:51:41 PM PDT by Logical me

Lurker

Perry put some of the Texas National Guard on the border as well as some Texas Rangers.

Texas can only do so much without bankrupting our state.
Our state is doing as much as it can with Texas Taxpayer Money and the Feds whose responsibility it is to do it will not.

There is another problem the Governor has been dealing with as well as our State and that is that the Feds are sending the illegals (rounded up ones) to our state to be housed in our prisons and they are not paying for that either or not enough. That burden is also falling on Texas Taxpayers.

I have a question for those who think Perry is soft on illegal immigration:

Who in the Republican GOP running for office is tough on illegal immigration? And what state is that candidate from?

21 posted on 08/21/2011 4:58:42 PM PDT by TexMom7

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