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B Calm

(28,762 posts)
2. 1,000 National Guard Troops with the power to arrest, with no training on Border Control
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 09:02 AM
Jul 2014

or the laws, oh yea, this is going to go over good. . .

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
3. And guess where the money is coming from?
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 09:10 AM
Jul 2014
Perry intends to ask the administration to pay for the estimated $12 million a month to deploy the National Guard on the basis that federal laws allow the Pentagon to pay for such deployments but it remains to be seen whether Texas would quality for reimbursement in this instance.


http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Texas-National-Guard-border-crisis/2014/07/25/id/584844#ixzz38lh4dwQJ
 

B Calm

(28,762 posts)
4. and if the Obama Administration say's NO, republican smear campaign
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 09:15 AM
Jul 2014

kicks into high gear to say this is the proof that democrats are weak on border control. Thus taking away the blame on congressional republicans and their failure to do anything. . .

 

B Calm

(28,762 posts)
6. We see it, but the willfully ignorant average republican don't.
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 09:21 AM
Jul 2014

It's like the movie Groundhog Day. . .

Avalux

(35,015 posts)
13. This picture tells you all you need to know.
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 11:04 AM
Jul 2014

The man is a disgusting, arrogant piece of shit. Worse than Bush (I can't believe I'm saying that).



Joaquin Castro, on Perry's National Guard antics:

“We should be sending the Red Cross to the border not the National Guard to deal with this humanitarian crisis,” the Democratic congressman said in an email. “The children fleeing violence in Central America are seeking out Border Patrol agents. They are not trying to evade them. Why send soldiers to confront these kids?”
“Militarizing our border is the wrong response to the arrival of children,” Castro continued. “I remain hopeful that our state can provide a more helpful response than to send armed soldiers to greet children seeking refuge from violence.”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/22/1315747/-Perry-militarizing-our-border-in-response-to-migrant-children

 

B Calm

(28,762 posts)
17. "Too Stupid to Unhook His Parachute" Bush must be giving Perry instructions on how to look
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 08:51 PM
Jul 2014

mean and tough in photographs. .

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