Texas Lt. Gov Dewhurst: We Shut Down The Border Ourselves
While the interview is an exclusive, most of the content hearkens to recent interviews Dewhurst has given over this fall regarding the need to expand the Texas border effort. On October 2, a similar interview with given to My San Antonio, and December 4 to the local Dallas Fort Worth CBS affiliate. Neither interview received the attention from the press that it deserved.
It seems the Lt. Governor is having a hard time getting his message out there. Breitbart’s interview with Dewhurst covers much of what he has attempted to convey to Texas and the U.S. In the interview, Dewhurst told Breitbart,
“Texas will protect our own citizens and other Americans from the criminal gangs that are destabilizing our state and our nation.The three week operation involved the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and cost the state of Texas roughly $5 million. The Lt. Governor is asking the Texas State legislative budget board for $60 million, which is 12 months worth of cost for the next fiscal year. The state has acquire aviation assets that can see six miles into Mexico at night, along with 6 helicopters and 6 gun boats that can see at night to directly combat traffic. Dewhurst described the effort Darby as follows,
“In the Rio Grande Valley sector, nearly nothing moved in those three weeks. We shut it down. We had teams of Texas law enforcement in the brush, high altitude aircraft, gun boats, and more. Our intel revealed that the Gulf cartel was growing frustrated with our three-week effort.”No offense Mr. Dewhurst, but better late to the party than not at all. The Texas border has been a problem for some time.
“The border issue is just about dollars and cents. This proves Texas can do the job the federal government has refused to do — to invest in the border and shut it down from illegal activities that are hurting Texans and other Americans.”
“We started appropriating money to plug the holes that exist in the border. We’ve allocated hundreds of millions, as a state, since 2008. Nearly 796 million of state money, not a dime federal, has been allocated by the State of Texas to plug the holes in our border. This covers things like over-time for Sheriffs’ deputies, equipment, and Texas Rangers SWAT teams [referring to the elite Texas Rangers, an arm of the DPS].”
“For six or seven years, I’ve been calling on our congressional delegation in D.C., we need to at least double, if not triple, the size of our Border Patrol. The federal government is not providing the resources. I’ve grown convinced over the last year that this administration has no intention of securing the border.”
“This is just unacceptable. We have a problem and everyone knows it except for the Obama administration and people in high levels of Border Patrol. Organized crime groups in Texas are contracting with Mexican cartels to be their enforcers. The cartels’ presence are in all of our major cities. Seven of the eight Mexican cartels operating in Texas are using our state as a staging area for their operations across the U.S.”Dewhurst concluded the interview by saying
“Illegal immigration is one issue, and we all understand why people want to come here. I’m a strong believer in legal immigration, but not illegal immigration. We have young girls being trafficked as slaves for immoral purposes across our border and through our state. This cannot be allowed.”
The State of Texas and our nation deserve better than what we are getting from Washington, D.C. Until they adopt the Texas approach, we will continue to do what’s right for Texans and for our state ourselves.”A video of the gun boats by the troopers ran last summer. It is quite impressive.
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