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Texas gov. asks for more troops
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| Contributor | Jason |
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| Author | Carol E. Lee |
| News Date | Monday, August 9, 2010 08:30:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | AUSTIN, Texas – Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White may be avoiding President Obama during his Monday visit to the Lone Star State, but Republican Gov. Rick Perry was there to personally ask him to deploy additional National Guard troops to the Texas border.
In a three-page letter he hand-delivered to Obama, Perry criticized the number of troops that have been sent to Texas – 286 – to help secure the 1,200-mile border the state shares with Mexico. He dubbed the number “clearly insufficient” for combating drug cartel violence that he said has killed 28,000 people since 2006.
“I respectfully but urgently request that the federal government quickly deploy 1,000 troops to the Texas-Mexico border, as well as additional law enforcement tools and technology,” Perry wrote. “We must show the cartels that Washington will no longer tolerate their terrorizing and criminalizing the border region.”
This year the Obama administration announced the deployment of 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. Deputy White House press secretary Bill Burton defended the administration’s actions on border security. |
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