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Perry: Ranger teams to go to Tex-Mex border
| Abstracted from the AP report: |
Texas governor Perry announced he will be sending teams of Texas Rangers to the Mexican border to quell violence allowed to get out of hand by the understaffed federal Border Patrol. The Rangers will be deployed to high traffic and high crime areas. and those stretches of the border containing isolated ranchers have complained of being overrun by people smugglers.
Two hundred troops from the Texas Army National Guard have begun training with the Rangers for this assignment.
Posted by: trailing wife 2009-09-11 |
