>>Other than sending the DPS down there (which is not nearly enough), he is doing squat.<<
Not true. Just a couple of weeks ago he appropriated an additional 1.3 million per week toward border enforcement activities.
I’ve never been a huge Perry fan, but when Sen. Dan Patrick called for this additional funding, it didn’t take him but a few days to sign the paperwork to make it happen.
Gotta give’em that.
Exactly what activities were funded, repelling invasion or facilitating invasion?
We all know the answer.
Yes, the 1.3 million is to pay to send the DPS contingency to the border; and that was done because Dan Patrick called him out on why Texas wasn’t doing something. When negative publicity began hounding the issue, that is when he, Dewhurst and Joe Straus got busy and appropriated funds for the DPS.
Prior to the 1.3 million, he has sent letters to Obama and done some complaining; other than that not much else. Perry has the legal authority to call up the Texas National Guard and use it against insurrection and invasion.
I have voted for Perry. However, he is failing on this issue, and the issue is an emergency both in terms of security and in terms of a health crisis.