One small but not insignificant difference of being a lawman in a Texas border town, is that with the gun laws, there is always a chance that you will not be as alone as you might have been in Mexico.
If the cop lives long enough to find cover and make it a gun fight, he may receive armed citizen assistance, and with 25 million veterans, it just may be pretty skilled assistance.
Not in California...
Arizona, maybe...Same thing with New Mexico...
Texas is a whole differnt equation...The kind of heat we can put on the border is insignificant to what needs to be done with the criminal element ALREADY in place on our side of the border...
Obviously we are not going to support deadly force on people coming across like duck on a pond across our border...We need to be real about that...What is a threat to citizens and law enforcement on this side are the folks already in play who all they need is a phone call or task to start taking it to us on this side of the border...And when that stats the dynamic changes tremendously...
Putting troops on the border would be a great video byte for the media and a PR boon for Obama...Never mind that it’ll be Perry that probably gives the order...
Why he has not done so already is something that is a bit cloudy over the YEARS this has been brewing...
We already have many law enforcement officers that have been killed by illegal aliens in this state in recent history...They are being handled...
Our government is just in denial...
I think it was very telling that the civilian border watcher organizations have pulled up stakes recently and disbanded and stopped their operations...Could that be because they see a real credible threat to even their safety??? I would certainly hope so...
Since the Mexican government is helpless and too corrupt to take care of the cartels on their side of the border, then it is apparent that it is only a matter of time before they push the border back a little bit in our direction...
But remember, they don’t want troops and observers watching the border...They need us to keep things as normal as possible so they can ply their wares and make their money...
So there is a fine balance they want to maintain, and they do not want to upset that balance...
All we can really do is wait and see what happens...