Texas AG has finally had it!

[kurt68]

http://www.oag.state.tx.us/oagNews/release.php?id=3372

Texas Attorney General Abbott Demands Federal Action After Bullets Hit El Paso City Hall
Citing recent cross-border incident in El Paso, Abbott urges President Obama to make securing the border his top priority

AUSTIN—Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott sent the following letter to President Obama:

June 30, 2010

VIA FACSIMILE

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 Juárez this year as a war continues relentlessly between the Juárez 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.

[Blue Tick]

Well worded, intended and needed. I'm affraid it will fall on very deaf ears though!

[BrandonA]

I can still hear the crickets chirping. This administration has no intent to secure our borders and he will do nothing but grandstand and say we need reform. This is a same president that believes in open borders. Our Attorney General should file suit against the Federal Goverment for failing to protect and secure our borders which they are bound to do by OUR Constitution.

[Jmh05]

I agree that nothing will be done, until Texas steps up to the plate and finds a way to do it ourselves.

[HandiKap Bowhunter]

I can still hear the crickets chirping. This administration has no intent to secure our borders and he will do nothing but grandstand and say we need reform. This is a same president that believes in open borders. Our Attorney General should file suit against the Federal Goverment for failing to protect and secure our borders which they are bound to do by OUR Constitution.

X2 well said Brandon

[Legdog]

I'm curious if anyone has taken the time to figure out where the bullets actually came from. They certainly could be from Mexico, but has anyone confirmed this? Or are we sending letters to Washington based on theory?

[Johnny Dangerr]

Hope something changes....

[Live2Hunt]

Spit in one hand and wish in the other, which one will fill up faster?

[Fulldraw]

You've got to wonder though, if the Idiot-in-Chief can blow off a Governor (AZ) and still sleep at night, how much weight can a fax from a State AG carry? None, is the answer you're looking for. The way his numbers of approval are falling the only way this idiot stays in office is if he opens the border and offers free health care to every better lifer that can get here before 2012. Oh, wait, he already did that.

[qzilla]

I'm curious if anyone has taken the time to figure out where the bullets actually came from. They certainly could be from Mexico, but has anyone confirmed this? Or are we sending letters to Washington based on theory?

Exactly, maybe we should pull in several government agencies and get their opinions. Maybe, just maybe in the next few years we can figure out where they came from and then we can do something about it.

I mean seriously........................

[Fulldraw]

Exactly, maybe we should pull in several government agencies and get their opinions. Maybe, just maybe in the next few years we can figure out where they came from and then we can do something about it.

That's a great idea. We could call in some experts, form a panel, name a new czar to oversee the panel and surely come up with a solution within weeks. If it turns out the shots came from Mexico all we have to do is let the most inarticulate press secretary in the history of the state make a statement as to how we urged the Mexicans not to do it again. If it turns out the shots came from the US side then that's all we'll need to put a 6 month moratorium on the sale of all weapons and ammo while we convene another panel of experts to see what we can come up with to end such tragic behavior in the future, in the interest of all humanity.

[Bonesplitter]

I say we take it into our own hands and call forth the Texas national guard. Who better to serve our state than us! Hell I would volunteer if they'd take my old fat butt! We should have enough revenue to fly and patrol our borders with bradleys, humvee's, M1's and ground patrols!

[47]

I can still hear the crickets chirping. This administration has no intent to secure our borders and he will do nothing but grandstand and say we need reform. This is a same president that believes in open borders. Our Attorney General should file suit against the Federal Goverment for failing to protect and secure our borders which they are bound to do by OUR Constitution.

That and/or put out the call for arms, gather our National Guard and deputize any Texan willing and able, and We'll secure it ourselves.

[park5115]

Things on the border are getting ridiculously bad, a few days ago the leading candidate for governor of Tamulipas was assassinated.

http://www.themonitor.com/news/span-40274-class-text.html

[BTLowry]

Need to just aim over their way and return a couple


Legdog I don't know if you are serious or sarcastic but on the news last night they showed the building with the little stick things sticking out of the bullet holes which indicate trajectory. Looked like the bullets entered from above, which leads me to believe they were on the downward end of an arc.


Then again who knows for sure