Hoc....we’ve been around this time and again...sources have been posted time and again and again of which you attempt to dispute and fail at.
You can cry it’s the Governments repsosibility to protest the border all you want but taxpayers are sick and tired of doing so when Perry is the problem by his polices which encourage illegal infilitration and further his globalist agenda to “secure” Texas as an international hub....
Perry’s interests are for Texas...period...as that of his supporters who all stand to gain by his Presidency...which will give him what he could not obtain from taxpayers...I will not support a candidate who has self interests for his state and that over our national security.
And yes, I think about one third of our exports go to Mexico.
Texas is a "tax donor" state. For every dollar we send in to the feds, we get back 94 cents.
Last night on the local news, they were showing the new jobs south of San Antonio to do with shale oil production. Aside from the actual oil field jobs, there are tons of support businesses sprouting up, whether it's retail, housing, or support as far as equipment, logistics, etc.
The former mayor of San Antonio was interviewed. He said that companies are hiring. Not for 40,000 to 60,000, but that a truck driver could make one hundred thousand dollars a year.
So, here we have an economic boom, expected to last fifty years. Then we have the EPA saying the sand lizard might be at risk, and all this new domestic oil production is a threat to it.
I'm not sure who is trying to push the economy and jobs out of the way in this primary season, but on jobs,the economy and overburdening regulation, Perry and Texas "gets it".
I’ll keep posting sources. Are you too lazy or is it that you have no sources?
In May, 2002, the Governor used funds from his own office to institute Counter Terrorism training at the Port of Houston and another separate program to train state and local law enforcement.
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/4322/
Announcement about winning Federal grants to build border security facilities at the border crossings, to inspect trucks and other vehicles(there were none before 2002).http://governor.state.tx.us/news/speech/10787/
From 2001
November 2001, Added to the number of National Guards posted at 27 airports in Texas.
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/4233/
October 1, 2001, Creation of the Governor’s Task Force on Homeland Security
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/executive-order/4440/