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Rick Perry: 'We Don'T Have The Resources' To Secure Texas Border
BREITBART TEXAS ^ | 17 Jun 2014 | by BOB PRICE

Posted on 06/17/2014 6:55:58 PM PDT by kingattax

HOUSTON, Texas—Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) appeared on Fox News’ Fox and Friends show and said Texas lacks the resources and manpower to secure the 1,200 mile Texas border with Mexico.

The comment sent shock waves through a Texas grassroots discussion thread on Facebook this morning of activists who are seeking a special session call from the Governor to deal with the issue of border security.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; bordersecurity; perry; rickperry; texas
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
There ain't enough Texas Rangers or County Sheriff's deputies to man a 1,200-mile border

We don't have enough police to stop every theft from occurring either, but we don't throw up our hands and say "well, we can't stop them all, so we should just give up and do nothing." Yet that's exactly the reasoning, or rather excuse, that Perry and others use to do absolutely nothing about illegal immigration.

201 posted on 06/18/2014 8:24:25 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: Ray76
The federal executive has no authority over the Texas State Guard.

Well,first of all...I weighed in on this subject by responding to the post "National Guard".I never knew that a Texas *state* guard even existed until I saw it mentioned in this thread.

Second of all...I'd bet the clothes on my back that Osama Obama's Mini Me,Attorney Corporal Holder,could shut the State Guard down in about 30 seconds if they started "patrolling" the border.Mind you.I'm not saying that he'd have the *Constitutional authority* to do so...just that he'd be *able* to do so.

202 posted on 06/18/2014 8:25:57 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: kingattax

He is full of it another passive RINO.


203 posted on 06/18/2014 8:31:39 AM PDT by angcat
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To: Gay State Conservative

Don’t let fear of what Holder might do control, he has no authority. The Governor of Texas is vested with the authority of the Texas Constitution.


204 posted on 06/18/2014 8:32:25 AM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it's more of the same...)
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To: mylife

“Secede”

ROTFLMAO! Texas politicians won’t even pass a law to allow open carry. Even “liberal” states like Delaware allow open carry.

So a state that can’t even wrap its arms around the idea of allowing its citizenry to open carry handguns or securing its own borders with its own forces is going to secede? Not a chance.


205 posted on 06/18/2014 9:16:42 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Be a part of the American freedom migration: freestateproject.org)
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To: kingattax; All

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STOP THE INSANITY!
Flood the governor’s office and your rep’s offices with demands that something be done to secure our borders against the current massive invasion of illegal aliens!

SIGN THE PETITION;
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/request-for-immediate-texas-border-control/sign.html

OFFICE OF THE TEXAS GOVERNOR:
http://www.governor.state.tx.us/contact/

Breittbart:
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/06/17/Perry-on-Fox-We-don-t-have-the-resources-to-secure-the-Texas-Border

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3169296/posts

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206 posted on 06/18/2014 9:19:34 AM PDT by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
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To: kingattax

The citizens of Arizona and Texas ought to round up these pitiful Latinos and take them to CA or NY or both.


207 posted on 06/18/2014 9:20:22 AM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: Milton Miteybad

Why yes, I did, and that was the point.

They were badly outnumbered but it didn’t deter them from trying to hold their ground.

Unlike Mr. Perry, who probably would have tried to cut a deal with Santa Anna...and end up dead for his efforts.


208 posted on 06/18/2014 9:50:50 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Regulator

Rick Perry is right. They would need a minimum of one person for every quarter mile of a 1000 mile border 24/7/365.

What they need is a double fence with a no-mans land between absolutely infested with electronics and imagery devices and notification alarms....mountain, plain, desert, river, lake, you name it. TOTAL.

And then they can have a much smaller force.

It is insane to even talk with these people about ‘immigration’ until the border is locked down, the airports are controlled, the coasts and harbors are controlled, and visas are a fool-proof system.


209 posted on 06/18/2014 10:38:32 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: ncpatriot

Since the population of Puerto Rico is dropping, why don’t we “settle” the “kids” in some of the empty farms there.

Then, the costs of that settlement could be covered by reducing the “foreign aid” we supply to the Central American countries that are playing this evil trick on us now.

Finally, we might also ask our good friends, the Chinese, how much they would pay us to reduce their acute shortage of young un-married women. The young ladies we could send to them would REALLY be appreciated.

And we might even balance our trade deficit!


210 posted on 06/18/2014 10:57:36 AM PDT by pfony1 (Add just 6 GOP Senators and we "bury" Harry)
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To: ExSoldier

That’s true. And re renounced both. In both instances the Democrats lied to him. First about what they were, the second when they drove the knife in his back.

If I recall, The Reagan Dairaies gets into that issue...which now more than ever, people should be reading.


211 posted on 06/18/2014 11:12:07 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

>>Borrow some of those armed drones from Homeland “Security<<

Right? How bout some of those IED resistant MRAPS we’ve seen tootling down the road in our communities.


212 posted on 06/18/2014 11:42:18 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

How bout the Texas rainy day fund?


213 posted on 06/18/2014 11:46:01 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: kingattax

Put the illegals to work making compressed stabilized earth blocks. Then build 2 wall 20’ apart and 20’ tall. Fill in the gap with tamped / rammed earth. Then put a 15’ fence on the Mexican side and add the occasional vehicle ramp up to the top of the wall on the US side.

Build that wall all the way from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico.


214 posted on 06/18/2014 11:54:29 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: kingattax
Com'on Gov. Perry, you are in a position to show the entire nation what's going on. You can also distribute bus tickets to as many of these children as possible to Boston, NYC, Providence RI, New Haven CT, Washington D.C., and Chicago. When those place are flooded with diseased illegals with their hands out, maybe the ever-so compassionate Left will begin to cry "fowl."

GOV. PERRY--DO SOMETHING!
215 posted on 06/18/2014 11:58:36 AM PDT by attiladhun2 (The Free World has a new leader--his name is Benjamin Netanyahu)
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To: Candor7; Fred Nerks

Soon our Open border will permit Jihadists to enter disguised as South Americans.

Already happening.

The link below is to a daily thread on TimeBomb2000, a member there compiles all the jihadi related info he can find, plus a few more other topics, but it’s mostly all jihad related. It’s amazing to see how much he finds every day. I will post a link to the first couple of items. His daily thread is a good resource and he is finishing a book about the dangers and truth of Islam.

http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?451035-The-Four-Horsemen-Tuesday-06-17-2014

First link youtube, second an article.

“Children” a Distraction as Cartels, Terrorists Flood Across Southern Border

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1R5R5zX7Fng

BORDER PATROL AGENT SOUNDS ALARM
The amount of criminals, murderers and terrorists entering the U.S. right now is overwhelming. We can’t stop it. National security is completely compromised.

http://www.dmldaily.com/border-patrol-agents-sounds-warning/


216 posted on 06/18/2014 12:05:20 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: stevio
The United Methodist Church, some Quaker groups, The Sojourners, and others are raising money to buy tickets, providing information in the affected Cen. American countries on how to get here, what to tell authorities when you arrive, and the services you can apply for once here. This is a well-coordinated effort that has its genesis in an executive order signed by Obama. It is a take-down of America by La Raza, the far Left, Mecha, the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund, the Ford Foundation, the World Council of Churches, etc.

Make no mistake about it, this is going to lead to the Balkanization of the U.S.A. Look at Lebanon, and you see the future of this country, you can make bank on that my fellow Freepers. The Lebanese compassionately let in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the 1970s following King Hussein of Jordan's crackdown on the PLO. That led to the destabilization of the country, civil war, and a fractured nation run by 18 separate militia groups. Can't happen here? It already is. The militias are hear already--MS 13, the Latin Kings, the Mexican Mafia under their political handlers in La Raza, Mecha, MALDeF, etc.

If I, nothing but a broke-d*ck working stiff, can see this, why can't our politicos, or maybe they do, but because of cowardice, they don't want to do anything to stem it?
217 posted on 06/18/2014 12:18:47 PM PDT by attiladhun2 (The Free World has a new leader--his name is Benjamin Netanyahu)
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To: attiladhun2

Of course they see it. Either they want it to happen or they think they will be insulated from it. Bastards, all of them.


218 posted on 06/18/2014 1:20:48 PM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: attiladhun2

“If I, nothing but a broke-d*ck working stiff, can see this, why can’t our politicos, or maybe they do, but because of cowardice, they don’t want to do anything to stem it?”

Of course the kakistocrats see it. Unfortunately for us, the uniparty is pretty much of a consensus that amnesty is the way to go. Native born Americans aren’t pliant enough for their tastes.


219 posted on 06/18/2014 2:34:07 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Be a part of the American freedom migration: freestateproject.org)
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To: kingattax

Yup. There are volunteers all over America who’d be happy to do this.


220 posted on 06/18/2014 3:24:22 PM PDT by OldNewYork
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