Texas Border Troubles

We watched Glenn Beck last night. He covered some of the problems on the Texas border, down near Laredo and Nuevo Laredo. He had a couple of guest on. One is a sheriff and the other a congressman. I forget their names. But those two really go at it. The sheriff asked the congressman, "when someone calls 911, who responds? The Border Patrol, FBI, BATF, CIA? No, it is the local law enforcement. How come you don't give us any funds to fight these guys with? We have hand guns and they have AK 47's. The congressman came back with, "you are just a little sheriff of a single county, you don't see the big picture like I do on the federal level." Both of these guys are of Mexican descent, I might add. Well, it turns out that the brother of the Congressman is running for sheriff. Seems to me to be a little conflict of interest going on here.

Then they talked about the Federal government [congress] giving Mexico several billion dollars to buy equipment with, night vision stuff, spy stuff, weapons... etc. The sheriff said that this was wrong. They should not give them one cent until they show they are making an effort to control the drug trafficking, and the coyotes that smuggle people across. Again the congressman came back with, "you don't see the big picture." The sheriff said the congressman didn't see that the worse of the people in Mexico were trained and equipped right here in the USA. They were Mexican Army, now they have joined the Mexican Drug Cartels, and they are the most vicious of people."

The sheriff said well, you don't understand the Texas people.. this situation is reaching a boiling point. And you forget that Texas still has in their constitution and agreement with the US, the right to succeed. And we will clean up our own border our way."

Every one keeps saying we should bring our troops back from Korea to patrol our borders.. I say bring them back and those in Kosovo [?] and invade Mexico and clean out Mexico, might as well occupy it while we are at it.

While we are on the subject.. I read yesterday, and I forgot where, didn't bookmark it. Where some sheriffs and local people are saying that we should put dams along the river, making it deeper and wider and easier to patrol, harder to cross, rather than build a fence, because building the fence means we give back to Mexico Texas land and the river. Cheaper building dams than the fence.