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Home Front: Politix
Perry: Ranger teams to go to Tex-Mex border
2009-09-11
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

#12  #11, #12, IIRC, the first responder to the Texas Tower shooter in 1966 was a civilian who took his shootin' arn off the mantel & up the stairs to confront Charles Whitman. At that point Whitman stopped shooting at the people below. Local law enforcers were next on the scene.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2009-09-11 22:47  

#11  Check the last, Austin PD were the bad boys in that case.
Posted by: .5MT   2009-09-11 19:57  

#10  Rats. Not quite the type of Rangers I hoped for when I first saw the headline...

Hummmm... no these would be the bad ones. The kind that would climb 20 floors to kill a sniper.
Posted by: .5MT   2009-09-11 19:54  

#9  Honorary, the older guy in the tv series was actual.
Posted by: bman   2009-09-11 16:47  

#8  For real, bman, or did he just play one on television?
Posted by: trailing wife   2009-09-11 12:56  

#7  Chuck Norris is a Texas Ranger.
Posted by: bman   2009-09-11 11:42  

#6  Hopefully the Rangers will be augmented with sniper rifles, heavy machine guns, and a few RPGs.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2009-09-11 10:33  

#5  Texas Rangers are some bad asses. Texas Rangers are the "real thing."

And no, not the baseball team.

"One riot, one Ranger"
Posted by: badanov   2009-09-11 10:30  

#4  Rats. Not quite the type of Rangers I hoped for when I first saw the headline...

Same here Ricky........Why not send the real thing
Posted by: armyguy   2009-09-11 10:20  

#3  "Texans know better than that. You go down to the border regions of the state of Texas and they will tell you Washington, D.C., has been an abject failure in securing our border."

What was it again that happened to your request for 1000 National Guardsmen? Yep, seems that way to me too Gov.
Posted by: JohnQC   2009-09-11 09:41  

#2  Rats. Not quite the type of Rangers I hoped for when I first saw the headline...
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo)   2009-09-11 08:55  

#1  Failing to enforce your sovereignty means someone else can annex your land. About freaking time.
Posted by: gromky   2009-09-11 02:41  

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