Ricky Perry Sends 1,000 Texas Army National Guard troops to Mexican border

[glenn1]

Dumb but Texas = normal = no care.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Source?

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...xas-says-immigrant-minors-countries-dont-bor/

 

[HTFOff]

Considering that border patrol was fired on by a .50 cal, I'd say 1k national guard was a prudent move.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/2...unfire-sends-border-patrol-scrambling-on-rio/

EXCLUSIVE: RINCON PENINSULA, Texas -- U.S. Border Patrol agents on the American side of the Rio Grande were forced to take cover Friday night when high-caliber weaponry was fired at them from the Mexican side of the river, sources told FoxNews.com.

The weapons were fired at the U.S. side of the riverbank in the area of the Rincon Peninsula across the Rio Grande from Reynosa, Mexico, at about 8:30 p.m., sources said. Bullets ricocheted into an area where Border Patrol agents were positioned, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, told FoxNews.com.

Border Patrol sources confirmed Gohmert's account, and said the shots may have been fired by .50-caliber weapons.

"We don't have any armor that can stop a .50-caliber round, so our Border Patrol agents had to take cover when the rounds were richocheting around them," said Gohmert, who has been in the area for the last week to get a first-hand look at the border situation.

"When the shooting stopped, about 40 to 50 people came out on the U.S. side and turned themselves in. So clearly the rounds were being fired to suppress every effort to stop anybody intervening with anyone or anything coming across," Gohmert added. "We have no idea what or how many or whom came across with the other illegal immigrants."

Sources said they believe the gunfire came from members of Mexican drug cartels, which include former military members trained in shooting that type of weaponry.

 

[Mani]

A thousand round chopper will show them that we mean business.

Who needs a chopper? I heard they are sending in Texashiker who's packing at least ten thousand.

 

[Newell Steamer]

Perry acts outside of protocol - he is a national hero protecting the nation,... {:*-)

Obama act outside of protocol - ,... BBLLLAAAAARRRRGGHHH!!!!!

 

[soulcougher73]

Maybe they can start on a wall while they are standing around. Im thinking Great Wall of China size. Then they can man the towers with weaponary. Build it a mile back from the border and mine the mile in between. Shoot to kill orders on anyone who makes it throught he mine field close enough to the wall. I think they would get the picture pretty quickly.

 

[Nebor]

Maybe they can start on a wall while they are standing around. Im thinking Great Wall of China size. Then they can man the towers with weaponary. Build it a mile back from the border and mine the mile in between. Shoot to kill orders on anyone who makes it throught he mine field close enough to the wall. I think they would get the picture pretty quickly.

I haven't heard such flagrant disregard for human rights since I last read about Mexico's southern border. :biggrin:

 

[waggy]

he is a idiot. this is nothing more then political theater. It's just a huge waste of money.

though my personal though is WHY they hell not have the military defending the boarder? seems that its a something they should be doing.

but no..we for some reason think its a police thing.

 

[Sonikku]

Yes! He's doing something!

Unlike Obama. :hmm:

 

[soulcougher73]

I haven't heard such flagrant disregard for human rights since I last read about Mexico's southern border. :biggrin:

They have no rights..they are not US Citizens

 

[dank69]

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...xas-says-immigrant-minors-countries-dont-bor/

Am I allowed to say But Bush here or is this law Obama's fault, too?

 

[soundforbjt]

Those glasses haven't helped his intelligence one bit, he should have looked @ Sarah P. and realized that before he started wearing them...

 

[WackyDan]

can't arrest them, won't shoot them, what good are they? oh, rick gets to throw some meat to the base at the expense of texas taxpayers. can't wait for that assclown to retire and go ruin just a&m instead of the rest of this state.

AS far as I'm concerned they are federal troops and can toss them back across the border.

The bigger picture is that right now in Mexico and Central America this news of troops on the TX border is spreading like a wildfire. It may only cause them to attempt to come across in AZ instead of TX, but as AZ and the other border states see an even larger egress into their region they will probably have to call up their national guard as well.

This is what every president has had the power to do for the last three to four decades and hasn't. Why?

 

[unokitty]

Honduran Immigrants Ask Mexico For Free Passage To Help With Violence

MEXICO CITY (AP) — About a dozen Honduran migrants who lost legs and arms after falling from trains during northbound journeys across Mexico asked the country's Senate on Tuesday to stop the government's persecution of Central Americans, protect them from criminal gangs and contribute money to shelters for their care.

The migrants say that drug gang members and other criminals frequently beat, stab or push them from moving trains during their journeys through Mexico to the United States...

Jose Luis Hernandez, the leader of the Association of Disabled Returning Migrants, said the group hopes to meet with President Enrique Pena Nieto... Hernandez said there are 452 mutilated migrants from Honduras alone, and more from other Central American countries.

"We have hit bottom," Hernandez said. "It is no longer even news when two people die on 'The Beast,' or that somebody fell under the train and lost his legs," Hernandez said, referring to the train that travels through southern Mexico that migrants call "La Bestia."

Criminal gangs often board the trains to rob migrants, many of whom have relatives in the United States. They are sometimes kidnapped and held until their families send ransom payments.

The migrants are often afraid to report such crimes for fear they will be deported, and some accuse police in Mexico of turning detained migrants over to the gangs, or robbing them themselves.

Hernandez said migrants believe that railway employees work with criminal gangs by slowing down to allow them to board the trains. "There is a plot that involves the engineers and the railway guards, it's all about extorting money from the migrants," he said.

Trust that the Guard is bringing their medics with them. Nothing indicates that its a good situation.

And nothing indicates that it is getting better.

Uno

 

[werepossum]

lol they are the national gaurd, they are not there to protect the border, they are there to protect the citizens (soon to be) from vigilantes trying to kill them cross the boarder...


think about it.. once they are across the border they are here, not going back, amnesty bitches.

Wow, a proggie admitting that Obama is blatantly lying. Good boy!

Considering that border patrol was fired on by a .50 cal, I'd say 1k national guard was a prudent move.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/2...unfire-sends-border-patrol-scrambling-on-rio/

The Mexican government is in the business of sending illegals into the USA. Not only do Central and South American nations pump money into the Mexican economy for this service, but Mexican nationals sending money back is Mexico's second biggest industry. The Mexican armed forces are defending this.

Those glasses haven't helped his intelligence one bit, he should have looked @ Sarah P. and realized that before he started wearing them...

I think they may actually be the same glasses.