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Offline Formerly Once-Ler

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Austin, Texas (AP) -- Gov. Rick Perry has ordered 1,000 members of the Texas National Guard to the border in an effort to fend off people crossing the border illegally, but the troops are not expected to do much when they arrive.

Texas Adjutant General John Nichols said his troops would simply be "referring and deterring" immigrants and not detaining people, the Associated Press reported.

"We think they'll come to us and say, `Please take us to a Border Patrol station,'" Nichols said.

Perry put out a statement defending his order, saying that it will “tackle this crisis head-on” but the White House slammed the deployment as an effort “to solve this problem though symbolism.”

“I know that Governor Perry is hopeful that it will send an important symbol,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Monday. “What we're focused on is making sure that we have the necessary resources at the border to deal with this problem on a sustained basis, that by nature, a National Guard deployment is temporary.”

For his part, Perry justified his action as a result of federal inaction.

“There can be no national security without border security, and Texans have paid too high a price for the federal government’s failure to secure our border,” he said in the statement.

Perry isn't the first Texan politician to make this move: President George W. Bush sent 6,000 National Guard troops to the border in 2006. President Obama eventually extended that deployment while ordering a second wave of National Guard forces to Texas, California, Arizona and New Mexico in 2010, the AP reported.

The governor, who is widely believed to be weighing a second run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, made his intentions known to the White House when President Obama traveled to Texas two weeks ago.

At the time, Perry asked for the National Guard to be called up and paid for by federal funds but since that was not ordered through the White House, the state will have to pay the $12 million price tag per month while they are deployed.

Earnest said that the White House has not received any of the “formal communication that you typically get from a state official when they make a request like this.”

More than 3,000 Border Patrol agents currently work in the region to deal with the tens of thousands of unaccompanied children illegally entering the country.

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This is brilliant.  Perry should send the check to Washington anyways.  Once a week $3 million plus last weeks total, and send it to the media too, with a note that reads "This week we will not be sending $3 million to build the community pool in Lubbock."  Every time he responds to Obama he can say "Mr. President, you owe the people of TX $15 Million.  What are you doing about this problem?"

One of Perry's big mistakes from his 2012 run for President was his admission that instate college tuition for illegals makes sense from a logical and rational perspective, and of course Perry is correct IMO.  But...

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/rick-perry-and-the-republican-bind-on-immigration/

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“It’s a telling sign of how much the Republican electorate’s expectation has evolved from Reagan – who would have been viewed as a leftist in this environment,” said former political strategist for George W. Bush and ABC News political consultant Matthew Dowd.

“You can’t have a thoughtful conversation about it in the Republican Party right now. You’re either [former U.S. Rep. and anti-immigration advocate] Tom Tancredo, or you’re for sanctuary cities,” he said.

So Perry is going to give you a show.  This stunt will not stop the flow.  It just gives the illegals more people to surrender to.  But it sure looks like Perry's doing something.

When there is a problem and the voters are unhappy about it, they want something done about it.  The solution doesn't have to fix the problem, but it has to be offered.  A candidate with a solution to a problem beats a candidate who urges no action or offers no solution.

I'm really very impressed with Perry as a candidate.  If I had to put money on the winner right now Perry is my first pick, and I would love to vote for him.


 

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From the article:
[[ Texas Adjutant General John Nichols said his troops would simply be "referring and deterring" immigrants and not detaining people, the Associated Press reported. ]]

Huh?

After all the huffin' and puffin' by Perry about "defending" the border, this is what we get from him?

This is a joke, right?
It's not?

Well, if this is all he's gonna do, there is one thing that is going to be a joke:
Perry's ambition to be president....
« Last Edit: July 24, 2014, 01:48:50 pm by Fishrrman »