[dragnet2]

Of course it's a federal border. Why are you playing Pollyanna games?

Does that mean the governor of a state has no power to protect his state?

I believe we have protection on the border that we, as citizens of the state pay for.

You know what, Texas is crawling with illegal aliens and you continue to pop off with these robotic canned responds. You sound like a programmed bureaucrat at the local city hall level.

Please go peddle that crap to someone who might by it.

Good luck.

[berdie]

Talk about robotic speeches!

When you can tell me that Cali is not crawling with illegals...get back to me.

As I have said...I regret Perry is running. Good governor...not good on a national stage. He’s not my guy...so we don’t disagree.

But what I said is not a Pollyanna game. We all suffer from this influx do we not?

[Ben Ficklin]

Rick Perry's first border enforcement was called Operation Linebacker but that would morph into Operation Border Star, which would be a permanent operation.

It is important to note that this was done when the Cartel Wars were at their zenith, so the primary reason for this border enforcement was to deal with the consequences of the Cartel War spilling over into Texas.

It was a well organized with the border county sheriff being the first responder who had the authority to draw from surrounding county sheriffs if he needed more men.

And if needed the sheriff could transfer authority to a Texas Ranger who would have authority to draw in other Rangers, shift Dept of Public Safety officers to the border, and ultimately call out 1000 members of the Natl Guard.

A lot of the money to pay for this was coming from federal Justice dept grants but the lege was also having to appropriate money.

The situation never really arose and the Cartel Wars slowly died away so Operation Border Star never really was needed but they would occasionally have maneuvers, which didn't cost all that much, depending on how many guardsmen would be called out.

So when the situation arose with all the OTMs, including women and children, flooding the border, Perry would shift Border Star to intervening to apprehend illegals, so he invoked Border Star, including the calling out of guardsmen.

So now with a new gov in place and the lege in session, they have been agonizing over this and the last I saw was they are going to continue with it.

There is a side issue to this. The state govt and most local govts in Texas are GOP, but the border county govts, sheriffs, prosecutors, clerks, etc are democrats, who benefit from state spending on border enforcement.