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Gov. Rick Perry to deploy 1,000 National Guard troops to RGV
Thanks, Nachum.
Posted on 07/20/2014 9:06:01 PM PDT by bd476
Gov. Rick Perry to deploy 1,000 National Guard troops to RGV
Texas Gov. Rick Perry plans to announce he will activate the Texas National Guard at a news conference Monday in Austin, said state Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, D-McAllen.
Hinojosa did not have details of the effort, but an internal memo from another state official’s office said the governor planned to call about 1,000 Texas National Guard troops to the Rio Grande Valley — at a cost of about $12 million per month.
The memo was provided to The Monitor on the condition of anonymity because the information is not yet public.
Troops are expected to enter the area gradually, building up to 1,000 after about a month, the memo said.
The troops will join the Texas Department of Public Safety in its recent surge to combat human smuggling and drug trafficking amid the influx of mostly Central Americans illegally crossing the Rio Grande. Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, and Texas House Speaker Joe Straus announced the $1.3 million per week effort last month.
State leaders approved funding for extra DPS troopers to fill in gaps in Border Patrol coverage in the Valley as the federal authorities were overwhelmed with an influx of children and families from Central America. The state officials feared Mexican drug cartels might exploit the situation to move their own drugs and human contraband while Border Patrol attention was turned elsewhere.
Hinojosa said Perry's move smacked of political gamesmanship.
“All these politicians coming down to border, they don't care about solving the problem, they just want to make a political point,” he said.
State officials denied the move amounted to a militarization of the border.
“This is not a militarization of the border,” the memo states. “The DPS and the National Guard are working to keep any drug and human trafficking south of (U.S. Highway) 83 and with the goal of keeping any smuggling from entering major highways to transport East/West/and North.”
DPS officials want to send National Guard troops into western areas of the Valley and the ranch lands further north, according to the memo.
“Smuggling has supposedly according to DPS moved West on the border with an increase in Jim Hogg County," the memo states. "DPS especially wants to apply the Guard in the rural areas to patrol.”
The National Guard deployment — added to the DPS surge — will bring the price tag of troopers on the border to about $5 million per week, the memo said. And the funding source for the effort remains unclear.
“It is not clear where the money will come from in the budget,” the memo states, adding that Perry's office has said the money will come from “non critical” areas, such as health care or transportation.
Hinojosa said the National Guard was not equipped to aid immigrants crossing the Rio Grande.
“They (cartels) are taking advantage of the situation,” he said. “But our local law enforcement from the sheriff’s offices of the different counties to the different police departments are taking care of the situation. This is a civil matter, not a military matter. What we need is more resources to hire more deputies, hire more Border Patrol.
“These are young people, just families coming across. They're not armed. They're not carrying weapons.”
Gov. Rick Perry to deploy 1,000 National Guard troops to RGV
Thanks, Nachum.
Posse Comitatus shouldn't apply because the National Guard wouldn't be deployed to provide internal policing, but rather to repel foreign invaders, which is precisely why the military exists.
Excellent and absolutely correct point!
Agreed.
And unarmed troops don't count.
So much for stopping drug cartels from crossing the border. Will the TX Natl Guard be stopping ALL illegal aliens who attempt to cross the border, OR just the suspected drug cartel illegal aliens? The borders must be closed to ALL incoming illegal aliens, and illegals aliens must be turned BACK at the border, to return to their home lands. Is this what the Texas Natl Guard will be responsible for doing?I think the Nat'l is under the "leadership" of cartel arming (fast and furious) Obama.
It seems this whole fiasco is so that the BP will be busy with the raped teenaged girls and children with multiple diseases that his people, the cartels and Jarrett's Muslim Brotherhood Islamic terrorists, can come over the border easier.
Bump that.
Thanx for the info.
How about some clarification so that I know you're not just Trolling.
If you still remain unclear then I will not become part of your trolling agenda,
and stop replying. If you read the info I posted to you then you may
find exactly what I am referring to. I will not spoon feed you because you lack
knowledge of the Constitution, or the Framers intent towards Governing our Country.
This will be my last reply to you unless you can be specific.
It’s about time La Raza Rick stop just yapping about the problem and do something constructive.
If I were the Governor of Texas, I’d deputize all state citizens and request them to blockade the border (bring guns, knives, tasers, mace, pitchforks, tridents, you name it).
La Raza Rick doesn’t want to stop ILLEGAL immigration or he wouldn’t have a history of being pro-ILLEGAL alien. He’s just grandstanding to try and fool conservatives into believing he is against it, aka, he’s already campaigning.
Racist. Xenophobe. Nativist. Wait ‘til they use this against him in the next election./s
THANK YOU!
I am sick of the armchair experts bashing Perry! He is right out front, he is DOING SOMETHING. Where are the other govenors??? I say send the illegals all to Maryland...right near DC! Oh, and san francisco!!!How about Detroit and chicago??
BTW, chicago and Detroit had more murders on one weekend than Hondorous had the whole year.
How about a little support for Perry, instead of whining he “didn’t do it earlier.”
Th Perry bashing here just pisses me off.
So the guy had a brainfart during the debates while on pain meds.
Big whoop.
He may have wanted to get back up around texas BEFORE he sent them out..not a lot of bitching later from his people in Texas.
Also, he wanted to appear to “try” to be reasonable with the amdinistration at first, so that he was “left with no other recourse.” He gets a lot more support and has the wind at his back. If something goes wrong ( and it could) at least he can say “ I HAD to do this, I got no help.”
Correct. Perry doesn't rise to the level of "wacko-bird" that Cruz has achieved, but he's light years better than a Romney / McLame, et al...
I’m sure glad not to have held my breath. Listened to Dan Patrick’s spew on 700 this afternoon. Pure pablum. That guy talks down more and more and more.
“Force Multiplier”, right. That implies there is a force to multiply and there isn’t.
I’m not seeing or expecting anything. 30 days to mobilize. They know there will be something else to see by then.
Squirrel!
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