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| Perry: Cartels and gangs are really "narcoterrorists" |
| 2014-08-14 |
| [CBSNEWS] Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, praised a group of National Guard troops as the "tip of the spear" in the fight against cartels and gangs as they prepare to deploy to the U.S. border with Mexico. Moreover, Perry said that U.S. officials should "stop calling these criminals nice names like cartels and gangs" and start calling them "what they really are: these are narcoterrorists." Perry announced last month that he was activating up to 1,000 National Guard troops to send to the border to assist the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) in fighting narco mobs. They are also meant to help bolster the U.S. presence as Border Patrol agents are overwhelmed with the responsibility of apprehending and holding the more than 60,000 unaccompanied children who have come to the U.S. since last October. "As the Border Patrol is spread even thinner and thinner with this high influx of the illegal aliens, the gaps in the border have become bigger and you now are the tip of the spear protecting Americans from these cartels and gangs," Perry told troops at Camp Swift Army National Guard training center in Bastrop, Texas. "They are spreading their tentacles of crime and fear, so your message and your mission is very clear: To be that visible presence, to deter the criminal activity, contribute those additional eyes and ears to assist law enforcement and Border Patrol agents along the border." He said more than 2,000 soldiers had volunteered for the assignment even though he only requested 1,000. Perry did not say how long the deployment would last, except to call it a "stopgap measure" undertaken because the federal government has failed to secure the border. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 You say that like some sort of armed, organized bloodthirsties aligned along a pourous border could be, especially with the help of inserted agents and potential volunteers as well as a divided central government, some sort of threat. So 19th century. (loads) |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-08-14 13:30 |
| #1 All the more reason to secure the border, regardless of where you stand on the immigration mess. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-08-14 12:20 |