Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The crippling influx of migrant children escaping violence in Central America is a “side issue” to tackling the wave of crime from undocumented immigrants, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Sunday. While most politicians in Washington expressed concerns about the 62,000 unaccompanied minors crossing the border, Perry said he is “substantially more concerned…
Steve Neavling ticklethwire.com Not long from now, hundreds of Texas National Guard troops will descend on border towns in an unusual show of force. The USA Today reports that some cities are welcoming the troops, who will arrive sporting camouflage and guns. “If anything, [the guardsmen] will send a strong message that our border will…
Alex Nowrasteh USA Today President Obama’s recent request for billions of dollars to address the surge in unaccompanied children across the U.S.-Mexico border has ignited fierce criticism. Republicans such as Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas blame Obama’s supposedly lax enforcement policies. Democrats blame the surge on a humanitarian crisis in Central America. While both narratives…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The 1,000 National Guard troops who were deployed by Texas Gov. Rick Perry to assist with the border crisis may get the unusual authority to make arrests and apprehensions, the New York Times reports. In the past, troops who were sent by presidents were prohibited from making arrests while they helped at…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Obama administration is going explore the need for deploying National Guard troops to the Texas-Mexico border, the Washington Post reports. The administration has dispatched a team of military and national security officials to examine whether the Rio Grande Valley would benefit from a military “temporary assist.” Despite objections from Democrats, Texas…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Texas Gov. Rick Perry is taking matters into his own hands and is reportedly planning to dispatch the Texas National Guard to the U.S. border to crack down on Central American immigrants, the Washington Post reports. Perry plans to mobilize about 1,000 guardsman to the Rio Grand Valley. “I won’t stand idly…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Nearly a year before a flood of unaccompanied children from Central America created a crisis along the border, the Obama administration was warned that the U.S. was not adequately prepared for such a situation, the Washington Post reports. A team of Border Patrol agents was assigned to the Fort Brown patrol station…
By Alan Gomez USA Today For the past few weeks, the attention of the White House and Congress has, rightfully, been on the tens of thousands of children from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador flooding across the U.S. border. But as Washington debates the fastest and safest way to send those kids back home, it…
