I suggest that everyone read the following report about Texas Border Security:
It was written by two military experts who each have extensive experience. The report seems long, but one can get the meat of it by reading pages 9-15.
Note the recommendations.
Thank you for the link!
It sounds to me like Gov Perry has been briefed and is quite aware of the needs on the Tx border.
Perry is using the plan that the professionals on the ground recommend. Too bad Obama didn’t listen to his generals in Afghanistan.
Candidates can say whatever they want up on a stage, but Perry is the only one who has dealt with the Texas border and the men working that border. He speaks from experience.
This also tells me he listens to his men and doesn’t change course, even when it isn’t politically advantageous keeping to that position. I respect that.
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“Ranchers routinely observe and report cartel vehicles as they crash through fences or speed though properties”
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“Most assessments admit that the SBI experiment failed due to cost and technology shortfalls.
The cost per mile to build southwestern border fencing was prohibitive and the SBINet system was never proven to be technologically feasible.
Nevertheless, by late 2008 about $2.4 billion had been allocated to complete approximately 670 miles of vehicle and pedestrian fencing along the roughly 2,000 miles of border between the United States and Mexico.
Proposals to build security fences along the U.S.-Mexico border also inflamed sentiment in Mexico and the U.S. Texas DPS concludes that a fence from Brownsville to ElPaso would simply be too expensive to build and keep under surveillance.
A strategic fence effort would limit fence building to established crossing points, ports of entry and metropolitan areas.”
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“The bottom line, however, is that while today Texas is the front line in this escalating war, the potential consequences of success or failure will affect our entire nation.
Thus, it is up to the nation to support Texas in its efforts to defeat this transnational
criminal enterprise”