A year ago, Texas Gov. Rick Perry asked Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to send 1,000 federal troops to help protect his state´s long and dangerous border with Mexico. Despite the increasing violence along the border, Napolitano has failed to act upon that request, and has spent much of her time in office downplaying the threat which drug cartels pose to this country.
During a recent MSNBC appearance, Napolitano the need for troops by saying: “We have a lot of technology akin to drones already that are being employed in different ways.”
On Friday, a week after two U.S. consulate employees were assassinated in Juarez, Perry ordered Texas National Guard OH-58 and UH-72 Lakota helicopters to the border.
The deployment of the helicopters is part of what the Governor calls the first phase of his “spillover violence contingency plan.” Perry has also ordered Texas Department of Public Safety SWAT teams on standby.
Gov. Perry told reporters: “With the growing threat of violence in Mexico spilling over the border, we have taken important measures to increase the law enforcement presence along the Texas border and have placed additional resources on standby to combat any potential situation.”
Despite the U.S. Justice Department reporting that Mexican drug cartels now operate in 231 U.S. cities (30 in Texas alone), and amid mounting gang violence in the American Southwest, Napolitano recently claimed: “We have not seen spillover violence onto the U.S. side the way one would predict, given what’s going on just across the bridge in Juárez.”
In response, Perry spokeswoman Allison Castle said: “How many Americans will have to die before our federal government takes serious action along the Texas-Mexico border? The administration has been reviewing the governor's request for 1,000 National Guard troops to support local law enforcement along the border for over a year. It’s time for the federal government to allocate the appropriate resources to the Texas-Mexico border.”
It is painfully obvious that Janet Napolitano does not take her job as head of Homeland Security seriously, after all…she is too busy pushing for amnesty for the nation’s illegal alien population to be concerned with the safety of American citizens.
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Obama and Napalitano are "internationalists." They adhere to a globalist agenda that makes national borders and sovereignty meaningless. The is part of Obama's "Last President of a Free America"plan.
I agree Stan. Except it is not Obama's plan. He is just a stooge on the world stage. If Obama had a plan he wouldn't have to read everything from a teleprompter and put on his "Mussolini face."
When you examine history, these guys come and go, some of them do real damage to their own country and the world while they are here.
A Repeat?....Wow, Bingo! I see his Mousalini face too. Chin up high, bobbing his head up and down. All that's missing from this clown is the harlequin suit and the jester on a stick toy.
The State of the Union Address isn't the only time that the aptly nicknamed "Nappy" is snoozing! She's asleep at the switch while criminals, drug gangs, and who knows what kind of scum strolls merrily across our sparsely patroled southern border. I salute those dedicated BP agents who do their best along the "thin green line" between the US and the narco state to our south. They're getting no help from Nappy and Barry Hussein is happy to make things even tougher for them.
Just one note on Nappy's inane commnent; the next time you see some gangbanger, or worse an innocent civilian, on TV bleeding out on a sidewalk after a drug drive-by shooting, ask yourself if that counts as "spillover" violence! Oh, there are tens of thousands of kids of all races who will never lead productive, happy lives due to the BRAIN DAMAGE they're suffering from meth, crack, and ecstasy! Some of them will end up as permanent welfare cases. YOU will pay for those wasted lives.
ALL STATES THAT FEEL AMERICAN STILL NEEDS TO DO THE SAME THING. LOCK AND LOAD NO MORE FED GAMS WITH AMERICA AND AMERICANS. PS GET OBAMA OR SOETOREO IN AN HONEST COURT OF LAW IF THERE IS SUCH A THING IN U.S.A.?????
This chaos is the result of having so many traitors to the Ameircan citizenry in positions of power. In other words, people who don't have Americans best interests at heart.
Action, reaction. The Israeli Palestinian problem is 50 yrs old with no end in sight. The war on terror is entering it's second decade and going the same route as the Israeli Palestinian conflict, and now the war on drugs is taking a turn for the worse. What do all 3 have in common you might ask? The CIA and the States Secrets Act! CIA covert activities are reacted to with extreme violence!
Last President of a Free America plan?? Wow. Not worth my time. By the way, the whole drug issue in Mexico is a binational problem. USA demands, Mexico supplies. The Mexicans are fighting a war in order to stop drugs from entering the US. They could have chosen to look the other way, but they didn't. They should not be fighting alone.
I only wish Perry actually believed in border security and didn't do this only as a political stunt. HE'S the guy who called a border fence "nonsense." He's as trustworthy as Bush on immigration.
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Franco, what exactly CAN the Mexican leaders do alone, besides create poverty for their citizens and criminally rake in money for themselves and their families? Are you the only guy that doesn't get the fact that the Mexican politicians, or at least many of them, are the drug lords--that they are one and the same? Mexico should be cut off from this country until they shape up. Stop blaming kids in America and others, that are probably already hooked because of Mexican drugs. How many times does the U.S. have to bail out Mexico, and then still take the blame for Mexico's failures? I've been observing this crap for over forty years and it goes back further than that. Mexico, has ALWAYS, ALWAYS, been a corrupt nation. If it wasn't drugs, it was something else.
What is Janet Napolitanos title again, Department of Homeland Security Secretary? I see. One can only look up tiredly and sigh....while wondering who these people actually represent.
Perry is an open borders shill. It doesn't matter that he is now doing this. The question is, why is he doing this now? This is always how Americans should approach any action that their representatives do, especially when they know that Perry has never supported securing the border. So why now? Did he suddently get religion on illegal immigration? Nah, more likely he is worried that since he never cared about the border before, and since things are so OUT-OF-CONTROL,now, some other guy/gal might run for his office and make him actually look as bad as he has been on the border. IN SHORT, HE IS FORCED TO DO THIS, SIMPLY BECAUSE HE WANTS TO CONTINUE IN POLITICS AND DOESN'T WANT THE LABEL OF OPEN BORDERS SHILL. It is truly sad, that this is what it takes, for these representatives to actually be motivated to do something that protects the American citizenry.
I will agree with you on the corrupt Mexican government. Some Mexican leaders have been part of it or even have allowed local and foreign drug cartels to use Mexico as a trampoleen. Nevertheless, we have our share of corruption on the border that allows a lot of drug to come into the US. That drug does not allow itself into this country. There is corruption on both sides. On the other hand, cut off Mexico?? Mexico is not Puerto Rico.It's an independent country. You think the US "bails" Mexico every time? The US has only "bailed" Mexico economically on a few occasions and it has never been for free. Mexico pays back to the US with an interest rate. In this country, nothing is free, you know that. It's all business.
On the demand issue, I don't blame the kids, I blame us parents. Neglection is our biggest enemy.
Mexico is not only our neighbor, but our 3rd largest trading partner. It is also in our best interest to stop finger pointing and start working together with Mexico.
"...The deployment of the helicopters is part of what the Governor calls the first phase of his “spillover violence contingency plan"
Perry is a political hack. There is no spillover violence. Juarez, where the drug cartels are killing droves of MEXICANS, is where the "action" is happening. El Paso Texas, which is across the border from Juarez,has about 45 murders per year average...this year it is BELOW that average....none of them, cartel murders...helicopters will do NOTHING to stop murders in Juarez and even less to stop the low murders (mostly domestic violence and bar fights) in El Paso.
"Perry has ordered Texas Department of Public Safety SWAT teams on standby"
they always are and always have been on "standby"...THEY ARE FREAKING SWAT TEAMS...their whole purpose is to ALWAYS be on standby.
all Perry did was put house-smashers in the air and as soon as one drops on some innocents' house and kills people, Perry's political career will die with them.
BTW: the city of EL Paso, Texas has told Perry NOT to send any troops or helicopters because THEY AREN"T NEEDED!
Franco, I definetly agree we have our share of corruption on the border. No doubt about it. One example would be the leaders of the border states and their treason in allowing all of the criminality to go on.
I will agree with you on the corrupt Mexican government. Some Mexican leaders have been part of it or even have allowed local and foreign drug cartels to use Mexico as a trampoleen. Nevertheless, we have our share of corruption on the border that allows a lot of drug to come into the US. That drug does not allow itself into this country. There is corruption on both sides. On the other hand, cut off Mexico?? Mexico is not Puerto Rico.It's an independent country. You think the US "bails" Mexico every time? The US has only "bailed" Mexico economically on a few occasions and it has never been for free. Mexico pays back to the US with an interest rate. In this country, nothing is free, you know that. It's all business.
On the demand issue, I don't blame the kids, I blame us parents. Neglection is our biggest enemy.
Mexico is not only our neighbor, but our 3rd largest trading partner. It is also in our best interest to stop finger pointing and start working together with Mexico.
You can watch the drugs walking into the USA via hiden cameras at borderinvasionpics.com View for yourself and then pass the link to your friends.
Napolitano is by far one of the most incompetent public officials in this administration and certainly one who is unaware of the gravity of the situation. Perry should do what is best in order to protect Texans. This is an invasion not only because of innocent migrant workers but the intranational crime problem can't be solved by throwing high-tech into the equation. We need people. It is a dangerous and thankless job and though some corruption exists it is not the main problem. The feds are quick to stump on Sheriff Arpaio in AZ and meddle in state enforcement but when asked to help they turn thei backs.
How many of you have had to take your children to school armed to teeth because illegals were approaching you in broad daylight and demanding your vehicle? Who among you armchair quarterbacks has woken up in the middle of the night to find them in your kitchen and then had them threaten to kill you if you didn't help them?
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HAD DEATH THREATS MADE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY FOR MENDING YOUR FENCES? HOW MANY? Spend 5 years on a border ranch picking up the bones of illegal aliens, and walking around your property with a rifle then see if you can complain about it.
This is so biased it's funny. Ha ha ha.
Nappy was no good when in Arizona and she is a joke now. When we were in the El Paso & Laredo sectors threats were common.
Our problem is that too many politician and government official on the US side are bought off or paid to look the other way. Most of the elected officials that hold offices in Austin or along the boarder are guilty too. Look at most of there stances and voting records. Mostly every thing they stand for is against anything that will work. They keep saying more boots on the ground but when they get there toy put them in offices or on patrol with no weapon. The National Guard was building roads and had to take cover in makeshift bunkers a will back because they were unarmed. And all the boot in the world will do no good if they are not in places that they need to be and armed.
I found some where a report that was saying that most boarder mayors and other city and county offices get some 50K a year to either make it easier or prevent and laws from passing that would hinder the trafficking in to the US.
My wife’s causing cot deported and was back in the US within a week. They played off a custom agent at the crossing to get them over, this was a month ago. Not tell me there is no problem. San Antonio has had a large number of Wealthy Mexican moving here to keep there families safe but we are seeing in and around the area a rise in theft and other crime but not the normal kind. Break ins to where guns and cash are the only thing taken then the houses are some times set on fire. Car jacking and other thing that are not reported on the news. My neighborhood alone has in the last year seen 5 break ins and some of the new neighbors have some ties back to Mexico. I can go on and on.
Shane...I can hardly understand what you are saying for all the misspelled words and the grammatical errors. It would seem that ENGLISH is NOT your first language...so please get with one of the free services and learn to speak and write ENGLISH...BTW...please also get a VISA so you can be legal!
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