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Texas Gov. Rick Perry Announced he is deploying 1,000 Texas National Guard

1750Texan said:
Perry wanted Obama to declare West Texas a disaster area with the fires a few years back...Perry wasn't shy asking the feds for FEMA money.
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That's what Federal FEMA funds are for.
 
sangha said:
Suddenly the right wants the feds to be their nanny and look out for what's best for them
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No, I want the Feds to do their job and enforce the law.
 
sangha said:
Suddenly the right wants the feds to be their nanny and look out for what's best for them
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It's one of the only things the Fed Constitutionally MUST do and always has... Article IV, it has no correlation with banning salt or soda sizes. Absurdly funny though.:lol:
 
sangha said:
Good!!

Let Texans pay to protect their border instead of using my tax dollars. After all, I didn't tell them to move so close to the border
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I just read the following at a different site:

How will they manage that, since they have to stand in US territory? All the child has to do is walk across the (very shallow) river and into the arms of those guardsmen...which they've been doing this whole time with Border Patrol. They aren't seeking to get into the country and then do something. Surrendering to the Border Patrol is their object. How will this stop them?

You imagine that a bunch of armed national guardsmen will scare people from crossing, but if they can't shoot anyone (and they can't), then they just look big, dumb, and stupidly ineffectual. Way to go Rick Perry!
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Deuce said:
The quoted post asks about how the guard troopers are supposed to help anything. Whack jobs are going to suggest opening fire.
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maybe if the federal government and obama did what they were suppose to do then he wouldn't have to send out the national guard.
interesting when you uphold the laws crime actually goes down.
 
Deuce said:
The quoted post asks about how the guard troopers are supposed to help anything. Whack jobs are going to suggest opening fire.
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Maybe the Texas Air National Guard can air drop food, water, clothing, tents, medical supplies, sleeping bags on the Mexican side of the river...for...ever? That'd keep them from crossing over...maybe...for a while. :shrug:
 
Where have you people been?


Perry's been such a strong voice against the Federal Gov when it's convenient to him...and not necessarily for Texans. He is gonna have to make up his mind. Either Texas is part of the U.S...or it isn't. Either the border issue is a national security issue or it isn't.

If you remember, when Perry was campaigning for the presidential candidate for the Republican Party - he said that he couldn't turn his back on the illegal immigrant children who needed to be educated. But then he falls into a state of doublethink during the debate.

Perry, insisting his record demonstrates a commitment to securing the border through “boots on the ground,” quickly shot back. “We put our Texas Ranger recon teams there now,” he said. “But if you are saying we shouldn’t educate those children, I don’t think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children because they become a drag on our society.”

Perry noted that only four members of Texas’ 181 lawmakers voted against the bill, which he said “I still support greatly.”

Loud boos from the audience seemed to embolden Perry’s competitors to pile on. “No one is suggesting that children shouldn’t go to a college or university,” challenged former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. “The point is, why are we subsidizing it? Why should they be giving preferential treatment as an illegal in this country? He’s very weak on this issue.”

Debate moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News allowed Perry to respond, asking him how he felt to be the target of his fellow candidates.

“I feel pretty normal being criticized by the people on this stage,” Perry responded, before defending his view that a “border fence “does not make sense. As president, he said, “we will have boots on the ground and we will stop illegal immigrants and we will stop the drug cartels.”

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Perry's a blow-hard. He's a political circus.

Perry has made his bed....but now he's inviting us all to sleep in it.

People act so shocked at this incident. Immigration reform has been setting on the back burner in Washington because it's so much easier for politicians to do nothing that about issues that isn't putting money in their election collection plates.

In other words..."Ya get what ya pay for!" Yes? No?
 
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