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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBorder Sheriffs Perplexed by Rick Perry's Plan to Send 1,000 Troops to Stare at Mexico
Border Sheriffs Perplexed by Rick Perry's Plan to Send 1,000 Troops to Stare at Mexicoby Arit John at the Wire
http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/07/border-sheriffs-dont-understand-why-rick-perry-is-sending-1000-troops-to-stare-at-mexico/374817/
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Why would you spend millions of dollars sending troops to the border who can't actually detain anyone? That's what some Texas sheriffs of border towns are asking in the wake of Gov. Rick Perry's plan to send 1,000 National Guards members to the Texas/Mexico border in the next month, according to the Dallas Morning News. For them, it would be more useful to spend the money on hiring more deputies and police, aka people who are allowed to detain migrants.
I dont know what good they can do, Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio told the Dallas Morning News. You just cant come out here and be a police officer. Lucio and other sheriffs said they weren't consulted before Perry's announcement and, in Lucio's opinion, the police and Border Patrol agents were handling the small uptick in crime. "At this time, a lot of people do things for political reasons. I dont know that it helps, Lucio said.
This isn't the first time people have questioned the wisdom of sending National Guard troops to the border. In 2010, President Obama sent over 1,000 troops to the border. They weren't allowed to pursue or detain immigrants, "or investigate crimes, make arrests, stop and search vehicles, or seize drugs," The Washington Post reported in 2011. "Nor do they check Mexico-bound vehicles for bulk cash or smuggled weapons headed to the drug cartels." Basically, they keep watch and radio in any suspicious activity. Critics also argued that the National Guard's help cost an estimated $6,271 per person caught.
But defenders of sending the guard argue they are a deterrent. In the upcoming deployment, guard officials said they would have some medical training and be supplied with water. Still, the most immediate reward is political, and as The New York Times noted, Perry stands the most to gain for being tough on the border.
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Border Sheriffs Perplexed by Rick Perry's Plan to Send 1,000 Troops to Stare at Mexico (Original Post)
applegrove
Jul 2014
OP
devils chaplain
(602 posts)1. There's nothing to be perplexed at
It's shameless showboating to try to win the Presidential nomination.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)2. Hear Hear! Gov. Goodhair is trying to look presidential.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)6. Howdy Doody was more presidential than Rick the Hair Perry.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)3. Funny thing though, these people aren't trying to flee; they're crossing and turning themselves in
You don't need armed anything.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)4. Presenting Rick Perry's Pre-Campaign Border Security Theater.
It would be funny it it weren't so pernicious.
This clown wants to run for president again.
CatWoman
(79,302 posts)5. I was sure this was Andy Borowitz
from reading the headline