Posted on 09/24/2011 7:43:22 AM PDT by Clairity
Governing Principle
There can be no homeland security without border security, and there can be no higher priority than protecting our citizens.
While our focus begins with preventing the worst of the violence currently raging in northern Mexico from spilling over into the United States, the violence is only part of the destruction that can result from a porous border. The free flow of drugs, weapons and people resulting from inadequate security can undercut economic development, education and trade. As such, they can hurt Texas families in every way imaginable, from loss of jobs to the loss of family members to addiction, imprisonment or death.
Border security is a federal responsibility but a Texas problem, and Texas has invested hundreds of millions of state dollars in efforts to support and supplement security forces already in place. Still, this is a problem that will only be solved with more federal accountability and involvement.
Highlights
-- Starting in 2005 with Operation Linebacker, the state has sought to provide funding, manpower and equipment to local law enforcement agencies operating along the Texas-Mexico border.
-- The state's latest operation, Border Star, builds on the successes of previous operations with unprecedented local, state and federal law enforcement coordination. With the assistance of the 80th and 81st Legislatures, the State of Texas has been able to appropriate more than $110 million each session to fund and amplify these efforts.
-- In response to a rising tide of gang violence in Texas communities, the Governor allocated $4 million in criminal justice grants to cities across the state to increase patrols of gang hotspots. In 2009, Gov. Perry worked to secure more than $10 million in state funding for enhanced anti-gang efforts during the 2010-11 biennium.
-- In September 2009, Gov. Perry announced the formation of highly-skilled Ranger Recon Teams â which include Texas Rangers, Texas National Guard Counterdrug forces, Highway Patrol and DPS Aviation assets â in order to address threats building in the unincorporated areas along the Texas-Mexico border.
-- Since early 2009, Gov. Perry has repeatedly called on Washington to authorize the deployment of 1,000 Title 32 National Guard soldiers to the Texas-Mexico border to support border security operations currently underway. (see letter to President Obama, letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and request to Defense Secretary Gates)
--Gov. Perry has also recommended an expeditious deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles to provide real-time surveillance and intelligence to law enforcement on the ground.
That's the deal with "bots" of any variety -- they robotically, unthinkingly support their guy/gal no matter what.
Yeah, and we all know with certainty that a fence will do nothing because we've tried it already...
LAME!
Your answer actually supports Mr. Mojo's point.
This is a pat answer from the open borders crowd and it makes me want to hurl. I'm a secondary level social studies teacher specializing in both history and government. There are tons of examples across history that demonstrate that such obstacles work.
Going way back look at the Great Wall of China. More recently, look at the Berlin Wall. When that was up and running it was instant international news when even one person made it across. Yes there were lethal consequences like mine fields and machine guns, but the basic barrier concept is completely sound and forms the foundation of the very simple root idea. Today, look at the fences that Israel has erected along it's border crossings and sensitive areas. They have cut down on terrorist penetrations by over 90%.
In not advocating this simple and in the long term, less expensive option, I think Perry has shown his true colors. His performance at the debate was deplorable on many many fronts but I didn't appreciate being called "heartless." If he wins the nomination, of course, I'll support him a thousand percent. But I think he has lost my vote in the primaries, unless his tune convincingly shifts on this issue.
Hell, I disliked Gingrich but out of that debate I liked in order 1)Herman Cain hands down! 2)Newt 3)I can't believe I'm saying this but... Ron Paul!!! 4)Santorum and even 5)Huntsman who sounded more conservative.
Bachmann had my support originally but came out like a deer in headlights and her statement on taxes made her sound like a complete buffoon.
“Yeah, and we all know with certainty that a fence will do nothing because we’ve tried it already...”
So let’s try every expensive useless approach first, before doing something intelligent, such as guard the border with troops.
Why make every employer an immigration agent, instead of securing the border to stop the flow?
So, either they work underground...OR...Deport them?? You can't send an 18 year old back if he's been here 18 years...it's absurd..
The votes were:
Rick Perry 42.86%
Mitt Romney - 28.57 %
Herman Cain 19.05%
Jon Huntsman 9.52%
The remaining candidates Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Gary Johnson, Ron Paul, and Rick Santorum received no votes.
Gordon McCleary, the Wakulla Republican Clubs President said, It will be interesting to see how this vote matches up with Presidency 5. Wakulla mirrors the makeup of the Sunshine State so I believe the results are representative of Republicans as a whole.
They don't CARE about what Perry's done. All they care about is the fact that he may very well win the GOP nomination and he's not Sarah Palin. They will lie, spread rumors and innuendo and repeat half truths endlessly...because he's not Sarah Palin. They don't care how much damage they may be doing to our eventual nominee or how that damage may strengthen obama. All they care about is the object of their obsessive desire...Sarah Palin!
That's a goddam lie!
“Rick Perry won the Wakulla Republican Clubâs straw poll’
Thanks for posting it. Let’s hope most Republicans and conservatives have some sense and understand that Perry is a conservative, with an excellent record who can shine in comparison with Obama’s record. All the other Republican candidates are just all talk, no record — just like Obama in 2008.
At least these folks aren’t making their decision on how well a person debates...but on their actual record.
You do NOT protect your citizens when you actively make things cheaper for illegals to educate their illegally-present children in your midst. Texans may think it is ONLY Texans that bear the cost of making this compassionate decision, but Federal outlays for education in Pre-K, school breakfasts and lunches, additional funding for education that meets 'federal criteria', and so forth foists this on all the rest of us.
You do NOT protect your citizens when you allow assimilation of illegals into our collective society where they are free to move from state to state, once Texans have quasi-legitimated them.
On top of the blatantly illegal entry into this country, these people and their children bring enormous costs, out-of-the-norm crime, disease, and additional public services expenses in the midst of a recession and near-depression that has not gone away, despite government claims to the contrary.
This country is either SOVEREIGN, or it isn't and thereby relegated to third for fourth-world status. Make your mind up Texas. You trade your sovereignty for the votes of now-citizen Hispanics who have a mother-country connection to Mexico and the least desirable of their society despite the 'assimilation' they should have attained. Instead, we get La Raza and Reconquista.....
Your boy Perry is outta here in my book.
Any means necessary I say
All of the actions in the article are more motion than results.
As a a great executive once said:
Don’t tell me about all the money you spent and all the dust and smoke you churned up; tell me about the results you achieved.
Of course as a Governor, what Perry can and cannot do to eliminate illegal entry are limited.
But as we have seen with George Bush’s waste of billions on his virtual fence, nothing is as nonporous as a solid fence of concrete, steel and wire. And that is what Perry has said he would not build as President.
No, no, sharp thinker.
There quite a few more GOP candidates who can whip Obama.
False premise.
Those two are not the only choices by far.
I agree with everything you say Clairity but his attitude toward those of us that want to get this thing under control was somewhat disconcerting. He’s not backing down and that is disturbing to me and I’m a Perry supporter (at this point).
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