Posted on 07/21/2014 1:10:58 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
".......As governor, Perry is commander in chief of Texas military forces unless those forces have already been mobilized by the White House. But if Perry deploys National Guard troops it is up to Texas to pay for them, while an order from Obama would mean Washington picks up the tab.
"Gov. Perry has referred repeatedly to his desire to make a symbolic statement to the people of Central America that the border is closed," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest. "And he thinks that the best way to do that is to send 1,000 National Guard troops to the border. It seems to me that a much more powerful symbol would be the bipartisan passage of legislation that would actually make a historic investment in border security and send an additional 20,000 personnel to the border."
Earnest also said the White House hasn't received the kind of "formal communication" with Perry's office that usually accompanies such deployments..........."
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
When will they arrive —
Why would the Governor of a state need to notify the King about calling up the state guard?
Doesn’t the fedgov provide the funding?
I do not know the timetable. Here is the official announcement.
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/19925/
Gov. Rick Perry today directed Texas Adjutant General John Nichols to immediately begin preparations for the deployment of up to 1,000 National Guard troops to the border. These troops will support the Texas Department of Public Safety’s (DPS) ongoing law enforcement surge, Operation Strong Safety, which is focused on combatting criminal activity in the region resulting from the federal government’s failure to adequately secure the border.
Since 2008, more than 203,000 criminal aliens have been booked into Texas county jails. Over the course of their criminal careers, these individuals have committed more than 640,000 crimes in the state of Texas alone, including more than 3,000 homicides and nearly 8,000 sexual assaults.
“There can be no national security without border security, and Texans have paid too high a price for the federal government’s failure to secure our border,” Gov. Perry said. “The action I am ordering today will tackle this crisis head-on by multiplying our efforts to combat the cartel activity, human traffickers and individual criminals who threaten the safety of people across Texas and America.”
This deployment builds upon Operation Strong Safety by providing additional personnel that will work seamlessly and side by side with law enforcement officials. It also builds on the National Guard’s existing border presence, which has been utilizing air assets to patrol the region looking for illegal activity.
Texas has already seen results from Operation Strong Safety - from week 1 to week 3 of operations, apprehensions of illegal immigrants have dropped by 36 percent, from more than 6,600 per week to 4,200 per week in the area of operation.
Two weeks ago, Gov. Perry met with President Barack Obama to discuss the ongoing humanitarian and national security crises occurring along the Texas-Mexico border. At this meeting, the governor reiterated his request for the president to activate 1,000 Title 32 National Guard troops to temporarily support border security operations until 3,000 additional Border Patrol personnel can be trained and deployed. Unlike the governor’s activation which will be paid for by Texas taxpayer dollars, a Title 32 activation would have provided additional, federally funded personnel to be used at the state’s discretion.
His Imperial Majesty, Barackula, can federalize the National Guard with the stroke of a pen ...
This is all well and good but the real problem is not the border but the interior. If you really want to stop illegal immigration then strictly enforce the laws against employment, housing and social services for illegals. With no reasons to stay we would not have to guard the border.
1000? Symbolic gesture is right. Must be an election coming up.
Caesar Obama is fiddling while the border-situation ‘burns’. This is an attempt to force his hand. This is a symbolic deployment. 1,000 guardsman — a muscled-up infantry battalion — can’t possibly cover the Texas border with Mexico. But I imagine that local law enforcement might possibly turn over detainees to the Texas Guard rather than to the Feds who would probably begin resettling them in some US neighborhoods.
> Doesn’t the fedgov provide the funding?
Only if the president calls up the NG.
If the governor does, then it is state funded.
Perhaps Perry and the bright minds of Texas have figured out a way around that pen —
A Governor Wallace Moment in the eyes of Holder and Dumbo.
Something is better than nothing. People might also ask, If the governor of Texas can do it, why can’t the preezy?
They are not being sent to curtail the invasion.
You have to have all 3: Border, interior, and workplace.
Bush and the GOP congress pushed most of the additional interior enforcement off on local law enforcement. The number of border patrol agents double while Bush was prez, but they didn't hire hardly any new ICE agents.
And since the meltdown, no one has been hired. In fact, border patrol was given an exemption from the sequester, otherwise they would have had to lay off.
Of course it's symbolic and I hope it "symbols" that fool obama and that imbecile Harry Reid to actually do something.
But I doubt it.
All the both of them can do is flop their damned worthless jaws.
In 1954 barely 1000 Border Patrol agents arrested over 1million illegal aliens. It’s not so much about numbers as it is about will.
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