Texas defies feds; we shut the border down ourselves, said Lt. gov.

Texas defies feds; we shut the border down ourselves, said Lt. gov.

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Growing impatient with the federal government’s reluctance to do anything to stem the tide of: illegal immigration, human trafficking and drug smuggling,: Texas: officials took matters into their own hands, bringing all of it to a screeching halt along the Rio Grande section of the U.S./Mexican border.

“In the Rio Grande Valley sector, nearly nothing moved in those three weeks,” Texas: Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst: said in an exclusive interview with: Breitbart News. “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.”

Dewhurst told Breitbart that it all comes down to resolve and a willingness to spend the money necessary to get the job done.

“The border issue is just about dollars and cents,” the lieutenant governor said. “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. Texas will protect our own citizens and other Americans from the criminal gangs that are destabilizing our state and our nation.”

But success wasn’t cheap. Breitbart reported:

The plan, according to Dewhurst, was to do a three-week operation with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) as the tip of the spear. He said the effort cost approximately $5 million each month. “We are fixing to appropriate more money,” he said. The Lt. Governor is seeking an additional $60 million to be approved by the State Legislative Budget Board.

Dewhurst stated, “We started appropriating money to plug the holes that exist in the border. We’ve allocated hundreds of millions, as a state, since 2008.” He added: “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].”

Although the state has for years reached out to the federal government to step up its border security efforts, little has come of it.

“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,” Dewhurst said. “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.”

He added:

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.

texas_dps_swat-129Illegal 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.”

During that three-week period, Texas proved that the border can be secured.

“The bottom line is that we have just showed that we can shut down the border for X-number of dollars,” Dewhurst said. “We need to find the $5 million per month to make these operations continuous and replicate what we have just accomplished.”

This post was used with the permission of BizPac Review.

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