Posted on 07/21/2014 12:23:06 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Gov. Rick Perry is expected to announce Monday that he will activate up to 1,000 Texas National Guard troops to the Rio Grande Valley, state Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, D-McAllen, confirmed Sunday night.
Perry wants these troops to bolster the work already being done with a surge of Texas Department of Public Safety troopers, said Hinojosa's spokesperson, Jennifer Saenz, who added that the governor gave the Rio Grande Valley delegation notice prior to the planned 2 p.m. announcement on border security.........
In Iowa on Sunday, Perry told a small group at a VFW hall that if President Barack Obama fails to heed his longstanding request to send 1,000 additional National Guard troops, he would use his authority as governor to do so.
"We've sent the message that if we don't get the satisfaction that the federal government's going to move and move quickly, then the state of Texas will, in fact, fill that void," Perry told the group...........
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
He has already done that in some areas. They mount automatic weapons, but they appear to be .223/5.56. It wouldn't take much for them to be outgunned if the cartels so desired. After all, the cartels have a lot of military grade weapons and explosives available. An ambush would probably be easy, using .50 cal., RPGs, mortars, etc. Then it would be open war on the border - not that we already aren't almost there with massive armed groups of cartel soldiers there already operating freely.
The only thing keeping the cartels from shooting is the feds are letting them have their way everywhere and are almost completely ineffective in stopping anything so the drug and coyote money just keeps rolling in. If anybody tries to stop that in a serious way things will likely turn hot.
charter some planes and help the kids find their parents back home. BTW where od they get the 4 to 7 thousand dollars to pay a coyote? Someone needs to make a big sign about that.
And it doesn't cost him anything since the taxpayers are paying for it.
The guard doesn't have the authority to deport. Or conduct immigration/deportation hearings. Or act as an administrative judge. The guard has no detention facilities to hold illegals nor do they have the residential holding facilities required to hold the young invaders.
But on the other hand, This will be a "feel good" effort and its almost like spitting in Obama's face.
But you may be disappointed when you hear the conditions that are imposed on these guardsmen.
And not doubt many of the guardsmen will be disappointed that they have to leave their family, job, career to be Perry's campaign tool.
I think child smuggling should warrant the death penalty.
Ben, perhaps Perry can take “executive action” as governor (a la Obama) and grant the National Guard some additional powers to take care of the issue.
I’m scared for the first time in my life. I come from the city and now I am in NEPA. The area is bad now even shopping or going to the bank is becoming a risk. Yesterday the Verizon store in Hazleton was robbed.
Obama will just nationalize the TX guard.
Little late to the party governor good hair. Cows are are out, to late to close the gate.
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“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.”
end snip
Not only is it less then 3 miles it is less then 1/3 of 1 mile. 5280 feet in a mile, so 1254 is about a 1/4 mile. :)
I’ll believe this when I see it. LaRaza Rick should have done this long long ago instead of whining about the Marxist/Muslim not doing anything.
Most of Operation Border Star was/is being paid for with Justice Dept grants but Texas spends about a million a year on it.
It involves local border law enforcement(County Sheriff/Muny PD), Texas Rangers, state police(DPS), and up to 1000 guardsmen if the situation warrants.
Since Border Star was set up there has never been an cartel incursion incident that required intervention but they hold training exercises on certain intervals.
If you read between the lines of the article and notice where they might deploy these guardsmen you get a sense that Perry might be calling up these 1000 guardsmen as part of an Operation Border Star training exercise.
But for the optics of the situation, it helps Perry to frame the call-up in a different way.
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“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.”
end snip
in other words, the NG ain’t gonna do squat about the illegal invaders
La Raza Rickie? ROFL.
Perry Sending Rangers, Guard to the Border
This article also talks about Perry's border cameras which most have forgotten about. All the cameras were hooked up to the internet so you could stay at home and be a Minuteman. If you saw some illegals thru the camera you could call an 800 number or send an email and they'd run out and catch the illegals. It never worked out.
The camera thing was very dumb
Governor Perry has sent Texas DPS and Texas National Guard to execute border security operations before now. They work cooperatively down there. BP will not be firing on NG.
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