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It's easy for Perry to put the Nat Guard on the border but harder to explain (inevitably) withdrawing them. It will be a money pit with the Nat Guard accomplishing nothing (perhaps nanny duties). Perry has boxed himself in.
Do expect many photos of Nat Guardsmen with binoculars and guns drawn standing in the wilderness and staring seriously at Mexico.
It's easy for Perry to put the Nat Guard on the border but harder to explain (inevitably) withdrawing them. It will be a money pit with the Nat Guard accomplishing nothing (perhaps nanny duties). Perry has boxed himself in.
No he hasn't. Obama boxed himself in. The Guard will free up Border Control to do their duties. The Guard can also be deputized in order to let them do law enforcement duties too.
No he hasn't. Obama boxed himself in. The Guard will free up Border Control to do their duties. The Guard can also be deputized in order to let them do law enforcement duties too.
No he hasn't. Obama boxed himself in. The Guard will free up Border Control to do their duties. The Guard can also be deputized in order to let them do law enforcement duties too.
Obama and even the other Repub 2016 candidates for the Whitehouse are laughing their arses off at the idiot, with people like Perry all one has to do is stand back and let them do something stupid and it never fails to occur.
Originally Posted by katzpaw View Post
What duties exactly will the Guard do?
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Originally Posted by SourD
It looks like you need to catch up on what is actually going on instead of creating a thread topic you know nothing about eh?
Even Perry was stumped and couldn't answer the question when asked on Fox. He admitted it was just a "show" of force with no teeth.
PS: not my thread topic.
Obama and even the other Repub 2016 candidates for the Whitehouse are laughing their arses off at the idiot, with people like Perry all one has to do is stand back and let them do something stupid and it never fails to occur.
Wendy Davis (D) not only supports his move but wants deputies and law enforcement sent down there.
And you're in Texas and don't know this ?
Politics may be some of the motivation here, but I actually think Perry cares what's happening down there. He's been dealing with this for several years now. Your assertion that he has done nothing but whine is wrong. As a governor of a border state, one with over 1, 200 miles of international border, means he has done a lot to help stop the flow. But protecting the border is a federal responsibility, as the Dept. Of Justice has argued in court when they have sued states for trying to do something on their own.
Perry doesn't "deal" with this. We're talking about the same Gov. Perry that decried violence spilling over into El Paso, a city that routinely rates as one of the safest large cities in the country.
Now he is arguing that there is all kinds of violence at the border due to these refugees, meanwhile, law enforcement ON THE GROUND in border communities say there has been absolutely no surge in violence.
Regarding Perry and his perception of El Paso:
"In November 2010 El Paso was named the city with the lowest crime rate in the United States, for cities with populations over 500,000. This ranking is no accident or abberation. Since 1997 El Paso has been ranked second or third safest city in the United States by an independent study. The Police Chief and Mayor have worked hard to earn this recognition.
In August of 2010 Governor Rick Perry said in an interview with Fox News that bombs exploded in El Paso. He said:
"The city's police chief testified that no surge in violence has accompanied the crisis. The police department of El Paso, the largest border city in Texas, last week repeated that the city is not afflicted with ongoing "spillover" violence."
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