Posted on 02/01/2016 4:18:28 PM PST by mandaladon
Gov. Greg Abbott and U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Laredo Democrat, pressed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Monday to explain why the agency plans to reduce its aerial surveillance on the Texas-Mexico border.
In a letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, the lawmakers said the cut to a requested 3,850 hours of aerial detection and monitoring in 2016 amounts to 50 percent less coverage than recent years.
“Given the recent surge of migrants from Central America and Cuba along the southern border, we believe DHS should request more surveillance and security resources, not fewer,†Abbott and Cuellar wrote in a letter.
The pair also reminded Johnson that in September, Abbott’s office asked the DHS for more aerial resources and U.S. Border Patrol agents but that the request was never acknowledged.
A DHS spokesperson said the agency would respond "directly" to the governor and the congressman.
Monday’s request comes as CBP is reporting a new surge in the number of undocumented immigrants crossing the Rio Grande. From October to December of 2015, about 10,560 unaccompanied minors entered Texas illegally through the Rio Grande Valley sector of the U.S. Border Patrol. That marks a 115 percent increase over the same time frame in 2014. The amount of family units, defined as at least one child and adult guardian or parent, has increased by 170 percent to 14,336 in the Rio Grande Valley.
The El Paso sector also saw 1,030 unaccompanied minors, an increase of almost 300 percent.
In Monday’s letter, the pair also requested a detailed breakdown of how the DHS determined the reduction in aerial surveillance was warranted and information on how staffing and operation levels would be affected.
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Easy enough to counter: Put the illegal employers in prison, where they belong! Once the so-called conservatives who hire the illegals aren’t supporting them any longer, they’ll go back to peddling drugs or whatever in Tijuana.
We don’t need to give billions to contractors to build a wall illegals can easily dig under. Just enforce the law against hiring them in the first place!
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They want to turn Texas “Blue”
Bottom line.
Another piece of proof that my calculations of the number of illegals already here in the USA is much closer to 50 MILLION.
They are coming across the border unfettered-—they are having ‘anchor babies’ here—and from then forward, their breeding rate is much higher than American citizens.
Invading people who do NOT read, write, nor speak English does NOT a work force make.
So, what is the cost if we just BUILT THE FENCE, and stopped just counting the mexicans crossing the border illegally?”””
The fence WAS voted for.
The money funding it WAS voted for.
The Greenies & Environmental Impact Reviews STOPPED the fence.
Someone, please, explain to me how building a fence has a larger negative environmental impact than the thousands of illegals who are fouling water sources & leaving tons of trash on their trails??? Not to mention how many ranchers have been attacked & killed by the invaders.
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