Doing the job Obama won’t do:
Texas Governor Rick Perry announced Monday that he’s deploying as many as 1,000 National Guard troops to help manage the surge of child migrants at the state’s southern border.
Perry, among the most vocal critics of President Obama’s handling of the crisis, said the extra force is needed to deter the wave of immigrants, safeguard Americans from crime and protect taxpayers from the costs of managing the new arrivals.
“I will not stand idly by while our citizens are under assault and little children from Central America are detained in squalor,” Perry said at a briefing in Austin. “The price of inaction is too high for Texans to pay.”Perry’s move came just hours after the White House announced that the number of unaccompanied minors arriving at the border is dropping – from 355 per day in June to 150 in early July, according to spokesman Josh Earnest.
Earnest said the reasons for the drop remain unclear, but suggested the administration’s efforts “to work with Central American leaders to publicize the dangers of the journey” have contributed significantly.
More at The Hill
The Minuteman Project has also been re-vitalized.
But, I wonder what these border guards can do when the little unaccompanied ones seek to be caught.
About 75% of them will get asylum, too.
One thing however in favor of extra guards: illegal adults, especially men and gangsters will be deterred.
Bottom line? Governor Perry is committing Texas taxpayers to projected National Guard costs of $12 million per month for a self-serving exercise in presidential posturing. He says he’s committing another $1.3 million per week to the Texas Department of Public Safety to assist in border security.
What specifically are the people of Texas going to get for their money? As in, What exactly will the National Guard and the Department of Public Safety be doing that will actually help the situation?
That might be a good question to ask him.
@Greg:
Ummm, let me see: fewer drug cartel members running their products so that people on your side of the aisle can stay stoned; fewer illegal kids in our schools, bankrupting our school district budgets; fewer rapists, murders and other criminals (oh, wait, entering our nation illegally is a criminal act so they are already criminals); fewer kids dumped into our schools while HHS fails to do extensive medical exams that are going to create a health hazard all across the nation?
That’s a start. And how sad that we Texans have to pick up the tab for a federal government whose leader is more interested in fund raisers and vacations than he is in trying to govern, which idiots like you elected him to do.
@retire05, #3:
What I meant was, in what fashion will the Texas National Guard intervene? Are they going to patrol crossing points and take suspected illegals into custody? If so, by what legal authority would they do so? (They have no such legal authority.) If they did begin capturing people, what would they do with them?
Are you willing to shell out $5 million per week to have uniformed National Guard personnel walking along the borders doing nothing other than giving people stern looks? What sort of message would that send?
@Greg:
Well, if you read, and understood, the U.S. Constitution, you would know that a state has the right to defend itself against an invasion. But then, expecting you to know that would be expecting you to be smarter than you are.
The TxNG can assist the Border Patrol in many ways, just like they “assist” other local, state and federal LEOs during any emergency.
If deputized, the TxNG will have arrest powers. What kind of message would that send?
The constitutional authority rests on the fact that the Texas National Guard will be defending the state from an invasion by foreign children?
I think that rationale may need a bit of work before Governor Perry goes public with it.
@Greg:
Oh, please, don’t tell me you are so uninformed that you think most of those illegals are children? Surely, you’re smarter than that. Oh, well, maybe not.
I’m only taking him at his word regarding his reasons.
@Greg:
Link to that statement, please.
The statement appears at the top of this page.
I admire the GOVERNOR RICK PERRY, for deciding that project,
he is the man to know what to do,
and so much more for this USA HE LOVE, AND DEMONSTRATED IT IN MANY WAYS, the TEXANS PROUD AND SMART, KNOW THEIR GOVERNOR AND THEY WON’T LET HIM DOWN, THEY WILL SUPPORT HIM ALL THE WAY,
he said not to runn for the presidency, clear as crystal,
but he sure would be the man to deserve it,