Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced sending up to 1,000 National Guard troops to the border with Mexico to seal the area and thus face the increase in illegal immigration of children and families.
"Texas has a responsibility to act after the empty words of the federal government"
Perry said if they do not get the satisfaction of knowing that the federal government is taking concrete action on the issue, then the state of Texas will fill that void.
"Texas has a responsibility to act after the empty words of the federal government," Perry said.
The governor said that unaccompanied children are only a fraction of those crossing the border ilegalmente.Y that while the federal government concentrated efforts apprehension and help them illegally cross offenders continue to pose a threat, including traffickers drug traffickers and exploitation of the Mexican cartels.
In this regard, the military Administrative boss, John Michols, said his troops will deter immigrants and will not stop anyone, but said that the National Guard could do it if requested.
"We believe it will come and say,` Please lead us to do a station Border Patrol, '"Nichols said.
This new measure will cost Texas at least 12 million dollars a month.
More than 3,000 border patrol agents are currently active in South Texas, and Perry has repeatedly asked President Barack Obama to dispatch the National Guard to the border.
Conflicting opinions
However, in the news, Representative Terry Canales, D Valle, dismissed the deployment of the National Guard as a political maneuver by Republican leaders of the state.
Canales, also a lawyer, was asked whether the National Guard troops could legally detain those suspected of crossing the border illegally.
"I am a big supporter of our military. But do not think this is the solution, in fact, I think it exacerbates the problem," he said.
"What we have is a humanitarian crisis and we have an immigration policy that has clearly failed. I agree with him that more boots on the ground would not be a bad idea, but the boots have to be able to do something," said.
