A Texas Republican who steadfastly has prodded the federal government to better secure the U.S.-Mexico border has introduced legislation requiring the Defense Department to make National Guard troops available to states on request.
Rep. Ted Poe, in response to what he called the federal governments failure to answer the repeated requests of border state governors to protect the nation's international borders, has offered the National Guard Border Enforcement Act to ensure that border states "have the needed resources to protect their citizens from the ongoing border-related violence."
The bill, endorsed by 20 other Republican members of the House, would authorize the secretary of defense to make 10,000 National Guard troops available on request from a U.S. governor. In addition, the troops would be paid for by the federal government and serve under the command of the requesting governor.
"The first duty of the federal government is to protect its people," Mr. Poe said. "Texans are tired of the federal governments failure to secure our borders and enforce our laws, yet at the same time running roughshod over state governments when they try to enforce the law and protect their citizens.
"The federal governments 'not our problem' attitude is unacceptable and this legislation will require the Defense Department to do what they were created to do — protect the people of this country and the dignity of our borders," he said.
Currently, the Defense Department has allocated only 250 National Guard troops for the entire 1,254-mile Texas-Mexico border and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has said Texas must pay for any additional troops to enforce existing federal immigration laws along the international border.
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6 comments:
This is long overdue!!
"....and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has said Texas must pay for any additional troops to enforce existing federal immigration laws along the international border."
So this idiot says Texas can enforce immigration laws, but Sheriff Joe Arpaio can't??? She is talking out of both sides of her mouth. She and the Obama administration knows that the Sheriff will and does enforce the law but throwing a few scraps at Texas will make them think the Federal government is doing the right thing for the people. November can't get here soon enough!!
I am looking forward to a Citizen's Tsunami come election day!!
REMEMBER the ALAMO and PONCHO VILLA the mexican. Enough said.
why should Texas be responsible to add more guards and pay for them too.. who is paying the "guards" in Iraq or any of the other countries around there. not the locals our federal government is paying to protect those people but refuses to protect our own on our own homeland. Unbelievable.
i thought the governors already could use them.
We need to over throw our government!
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