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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Gov. Rick Perry is deploying up to 1,000 National Guard troops to the Texas-Mexico border over the next month to combat what he said Monday were criminals exploiting a surge of children pouring into the U.S. illegally.
Perry, a vocal critic of the White House's response to the border crisis who is himself mulling a second presidential run, said the state has a responsibility to act after "lip service and empty promises" from Washington.
"I will not stand idly by while our citizens are under assault and little children from Central America are detained in squalor," the governor said.
The deployment of National Guard troops, which may act in a law enforcement capacity under state authority, will cost Texas an estimated $12 million per month. They will simply be "referring and deterring" immigrants and not detaining people, Texas Adjutant General John Nichols said. But he added that the National Guard could take people into custody if need be.
"We think they'll come to us and say, 'Please take us to a Border Patrol station," Nichols said.
Messages seeking comment were left with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Perry bristled at suggestions from some Democratic state lawmakers and business groups that his move means Texas is militarizing is southern border
Just grandstanding to get noticed, it will be interesting to see how long he leaves them at the border and Perry will now be responsible for the actions they take. What will the National Guard do when they see some half dead kids come up to them, send them back across the border.
Thankfully someone is doing something. Just a shame our own president don't have the stomach to do anything about it himself, that is, other than "education campaigns"
Just grandstanding to get noticed, it will be interesting to see how long he leaves them at the border and Perry will now be responsible for the actions they take. What will the National Guard do when they see some half dead kids come up to them, send them back across the border.
Hopefully, yes. That is what should have been done to the ones already here.
And I'd like to know how this is just a "stunt" or "grandstanding"..... Is not the governor of border states at least partially responsible for protecting the border? I guess Libbies frown on enforcement of the law now to......
And he is hoping to make the federal government reimburse him for this publicity stunt. LOL.
Just imagine. If the federal Government did their jobs he wouldn't be able to pull this (publicity stunt). The fact is Obama never made an effort to see what was really going on.
Just imagine. If the federal Government did their jobs he wouldn't be able to pull this (publicity stunt). The fact is Obama never made an effort to see what was really going on.
He read about it in the paper like the rest of us.......
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