Life in a border town
Getting wilder by the day as our President kowtows to Calderon and the criminals get more and more brazen.
From the
ElPaso Times:
Gunfire hitting City Hall prompts Texas AG to ask for more troops on border
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today demanded that President Obama send more troops to the Texas-Mexico border and used the shots that hit El Paso City Hall as an example of increased violence on the border.
The requests came in the form of
this letter to President Obama:
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President,
Deadly violence from drug cartels and transnational gangs in Mexico is knocking on the United States' door with ever increasing frequency.
Yesterday, gunfire from the cartels pierced that threshold and struck City Hall in El Paso. Fortunately no one was injured or killed. But that good fortune was not the result of effective border control - it was mere luck that the bullets struck buildings rather than bodies.
Luck and good fortune are not effective border enforcement policies. The shocking reality of cross border gunfire proves the cold reality: American lives are at risk. As the attached news article notes: "More than 1,300 people have been murdered in Ju�rez this year as a war continues relentlessly between the Ju�rez and Sinaloa drug cartels." Americans must be protected as this deadly war bulges at our border.
Law enforcement officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety and your own U.S. Customs and Border Protection will reveal the hard truth. Our state is under constant assault from illegal activity threatening a porous border.
The time for talk has passed. The time for action is now. The need is urgent. Each day that passes increases the likelihood that an American life will be lost because of the federal government's failure to secure the border.
This threat demands immediate and effective action by your Administration to secure our border. As the Attorney General of Texas, I urge you to make border security your top priority so that no more innocent lives are lost to border violence.
What he said -- the violence that is ramping up is merely power rushing in to fill a vacuum. Obama has zero leadership and fails to understand the basics of the job the US handed him. Texas didn't vote for him so he will not help Texas. The Chicago way writ large. And the creatures of the dark are jockeying into position to fill the void.
Posted by DaveH at July 1, 2010 7:43 PM