Gov. Rick Perry's Office of Homeland Security is planning an intensified, nonstop border enforcement program that will tap the $110 million that state lawmakers approved in the spring for border security.
The operation calls for two years of continuous patrols involving law enforcement agencies along the Texas border with Mexico, according to planning documents reviewed by the San Antonio Express-News. ... The governor and McCraw have claimed success from past operations by pointing to double-digit reductions in criminal activity and apprehensions of undocumented entrants in border counties. But those measures have been challenged as unscientific.
McCraw said the office is working on the means to collect data such as crime reports, apprehension numbers and fluctuations in the street cost of drugs. A panel to be appointed in the coming weeks by the governor will oversee progress and recommend any changes in how the state tax money is being spent.
"We need to be judged, quite frankly, and we will be," McCraw said.
Republican state Sen. John Carona, who sits on the transportation and homeland security committee, counts himself among those who question whether past short-term enforcement programs have yielded any lasting impact. ... Since 9-11, more than 5,700 undocumented immigrants from more than 40 countries deemed national security threats have been caught trying to cross U.S. borders, many using smuggling organizations, an Express-News series published in May found.
"The same thing that generates crime also generates the national security threat," McCraw said. "It's the organized smuggling activities related to human trafficking that presents the national security threat." ... One frequent challenger of the provision, Rep. Rick Noriega, D-Houston, who ultimately voted for the governor's homeland security bill and commanded a National Guard unit on the border, said he is frustrated that Texas taxpayers are being billed twice for border security programs.
Can anyone guess why Noriega didges this issue? Could it be that the human trafficking border insecurity scandal in the Laredo Texas National Guard Noriega was boasting about?:
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This just shows what a tool Noriega is on national security.
Noriega is flat wrong. Obviously, he didn't read the Report before he blabbered about it. "General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker said in their testimony today that they believe the surge has been successful so far."
This should come as no surprise to anyone who reads the newspapers.
Noriega tried to score political points with his left-wing by picking a fight with Homeland Security:
Gov. Rick Perry's Office of Homeland Security is planning an intensified, nonstop border enforcement program that will tap the $110 million that state lawmakers approved in the spring for border security.
The operation calls for two years of continuous patrols involving law enforcement agencies along the Texas border with Mexico, according to planning documents reviewed by the San Antonio Express-News.
...
The governor and McCraw have claimed success from past operations by pointing to double-digit reductions in criminal activity and apprehensions of undocumented entrants in border counties. But those measures have been challenged as unscientific.
McCraw said the office is working on the means to collect data such as crime reports, apprehension numbers and fluctuations in the street cost of drugs. A panel to be appointed in the coming weeks by the governor will oversee progress and recommend any changes in how the state tax money is being spent.
"We need to be judged, quite frankly, and we will be," McCraw said.
Republican state Sen. John Carona, who sits on the transportation and homeland security committee, counts himself among those who question whether past short-term enforcement programs have yielded any lasting impact.
...
Since 9-11, more than 5,700 undocumented immigrants from more than 40 countries deemed national security threats have been caught trying to cross U.S. borders, many using smuggling organizations, an Express-News series published in May found.
"The same thing that generates crime also generates the national security threat," McCraw said. "It's the organized smuggling activities related to human trafficking that presents the national security threat."
...
One frequent challenger of the provision, Rep. Rick Noriega, D-Houston, who ultimately voted for the governor's homeland security bill and commanded a National Guard unit on the border, said he is frustrated that Texas taxpayers are being billed twice for border security programs.
Noriega wants to turn over all border security to the National Guard in Laredo, but in his campaign announcement, ""Noriega opted not to play up was his experience on the border as part of his National Guard duty."
Can anyone guess why Noriega didges this issue? Could it be that the human trafficking border insecurity scandal in the Laredo Texas National Guard Noriega was boasting about?:
Two Texas National Guard soldiers today admitted helping smuggle illegal immigrants through a Border Patrol checkpoint.
Sergeant Julio Pacheco of Laredo and Sergeant Clarence Hodge Junior of Houston pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport illegal immigrants.
Both soldiers face up to ten years in prison."
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