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TexasTowelie

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Wed Dec 4, 2013, 09:26 PM Dec 2013

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst proposes $60 million border-enforcement effort

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst announced Wednesday that state leaders are looking to fund a $60 million a year “permanent surge” along the Texas-Mexico Border to try to shut down the continuing smuggling and crimes by drug cartels.

Such a step to ramp up what have been periodic enforcement initiatives would be unprecedented, massing additional state police personnel, aircraft, boats and other resources along the Rio Grande River on a continuing basis.

Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said the permanent surge would not include use of the controversial “regulatory checkpoints,” which have drawn intense criticism in border areas for allegedly violating constitutional search-and-seizure protections — an assertion that state officials have denied.

Dewhurst said the additional funding would have to be approved by the Legislative Budget Board, and would have to come from current appropriations in the state’s two-year, $190 billion budget. No details on where the funding might be drawn from were provided.

More at http://www.statesman.com/news/news/dewhurst-push-on-to-find-60-million-for-permanent-/ncBmJ/ .

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Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst proposes $60 million border-enforcement effort (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2013 OP
State Republican leaders are looking in to the proposed war with Mexico that Abbott wants to start. DhhD Dec 2013 #1
El Paso is the safest city in Texas and the US. DhhD Dec 2013 #2

DhhD

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1. State Republican leaders are looking in to the proposed war with Mexico that Abbott wants to start.
Wed Dec 4, 2013, 10:47 PM
Dec 2013


Abbott spews the truth about intentions and is more extreme that the Fox interviewer. Perhaps cronies are in the fence and other resource businesses. I doubt that this is to stop the drug trade in the US.
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