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 by while our citizens are under assault and little children from Central America are detained in squalor,” Perry said Monday in announcing the plan.
Many Republicans applauded the plan.
Democrats questioned the move, especially following a recent drop in the flood of immigrants coming to the U.S.
“They’re trained in warfare,” said Sheriff Omar Lucio of Cameron County, which borders Mexico. “I don’t know what they’re really going to be doing.”
