Texas AG: Put More Troops on the Texas-Mexico Border. Now!

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Gunfire hitting City Hall prompts Texas AG to ask for more troops on border


El Paso Times
June 30, 2010


EL PASO - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today demanded that President Obama send more troops to the Texas-Mexico border and used the shots that hit El Paso City Hall as an example of increased violence on the border.

Abbott said in a letter that the seven shots that hit City Hall in El Paso were an example of the violence that is plaguing the border area and that sending 1,200 National Guard soldiers to the entire U.S.-Mexico border is not enough.

He also cited the violence in Juarez and said that Americans lives are at risk.

"More than 1,300 people have been murdered in Juárez this year as a war continues relentlessly between the Juárez and Sinaloa drug cartels," he told Obama.

He also said the "time for talk has passed."

Here is the letter by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott:

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President,

Deadly violence from drug cartels and transnational gangs in Mexico is knocking on the United States' door with ever increasing frequency.

Yesterday, gunfire from the cartels pierced that threshold and struck City Hall in El Paso. Fortunately no one was injured or killed. But that good fortune was not the result of effective border control - it was mere luck that the bullets struck buildings rather than bodies.

Luck and good fortune are not effective border enforcement policies. The shocking reality of cross border gunfire proves the cold reality: American lives are at risk. As the attached news article notes: "More than 1,300 people have been murdered in Juárez this year as a war continues relentlessly between the Juárez and Sinaloa drug cartels." Americans must be protected as this deadly war bulges at our border.

Law enforcement officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety and your own U.S. Customs and Border Protection will reveal the hard truth. Our state is under constant assault from illegal activity threatening a porous border.

The time for talk has passed. The time for action is now. The need is urgent. Each day that passes increases the likelihood that an American life will be lost because of the federal government's failure to secure the border.

This threat demands immediate and effective action by your Administration to secure our border. As the Attorney General of Texas, I urge you to make border security your top priority so that no more innocent lives are lost to border violence.


SOURCE:
http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_15411359?source=rss

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Related:

Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) told the audience that during a a private, face-to-face meeting with President Obama in the Oval Office, the President admitted to the senator that with regard to the invasion occurring along the southern border, The problem is...if we secure the border, then you all won't have any reason to support 'comprehensive immigration reform.'by Joe Wolverton II

Senator Says President Purposely Leaving Border Unsecured


Joe Wolverton, II | The New American
Monday, 28 June 2010


While speaking at a North Tempe Arizona Tea Party town hall meeting, Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) told the audience that during a a private, face-to-face meeting with President Obama in the Oval Office, the President admitted to the senator that with regard to the invasion occurring along the southern border, "The problem is...if we secure the border, then you all won't have any reason to support 'comprehensive immigration reform.' "

Kyl points to this reported moment of naked honesty as evidence that the president and his party "don't want to secure the border unless or until it is combined" with a broader immigration reform package.

That is to say, if the President's dictum is true, then the President of the United States is purposely permitting one of the states of the union to be invaded by Mexican criminals in open, rebellious, and unrepentant violation of Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution which compels the government of the United States to protect every state in the union from invasion.

For its part, the White House contradict's Senator Kyl's version of the conversation between the president and the senator.

White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer declared, "the president didn't say that Senator Kyl knows it. There are more resources dedicated toward border security today than ever before, but the as the President has made clear, truly securing the border will require a comprehensive solution to our broken immigration system."

Perhaps it hasn't occurred to the President or his spokesmen that a very simple solution to our "broken immigration system" is to begin enforcing the laws already enacted to control the influx of legal immigrants and to punish those who contravene the laws promulgated by the legally elected representatives of the people of the United States.

After learning of the President's denial, a battle of the spokesman ensued as Kyl's spokesman Ryan Patmintra re-asserted his boss's position and plainly declared that Senator Kyl was sticking by his recollection of the Oval Office tête-à-tête. "There were two people in that meeting," Patmintra said, "and Dan Pfeiffer was not one of them."

Curiously, Pfeiffer's recasting of the conversation between Senator Kyl and President Obama contained little more than an restatement of the comments Kyl attributed to the President. Mentioning the dire need for "comprehensive immigration reform" before we begin "truly securing the border" seems just another way of saying exactly what Senator Kyl reports that the president told him in private.

Americans should demand that the President and Congress fulfill their constitutional injunction to protect the states against invasion and do so immediately, regardless of concomitant legislative initiative in a similar area.


SOURCE:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index....rder-unsecured

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Flashback:

United States - Mexico: Escalating Chaos on Our Border

William F. Jasper | The New American
17 March 2010

The escalating violence along the Mexico-U.S. border has reached new levels of ferocity, as rival Mexican drug cartels battle each other and, simultaneously, wage war against Mexico’s federal, state, and local governments. by William F. Jasper

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