Rick Perry Orders National Guard Troops To Mexican Border

by JASmius

The State counter-offensive begins:

Texas Governor Rick Perry said on Monday he planned to send 1,000 Texas National Guard troops to the Mexican border to boost security during a surge in illegal immigration by children, a move that could increase pressure on President Barack Obama.

Yeah - to send in federal troops to rout the Texas National Guard before they can get to the border.  Or, at the very least, sue Texas as they did Arizona a few years ago, but that would take too long.

Perry, seen as a possible Republican candidate in the 2016 presidential race, said the guard troops were needed because the flood of children crossing from Mexico had pushed federal border protection to its limits.

"The price of inaction is too high for Texas to pay," Perry told a news conference.

Indeed it is.  My only question is whether he's got another nine or so thousand National Guard troops where the first thousand came from.  Texas is a big place, and has an awfully long border.  No use employing only token half-measures, and ginning up denigrations like this one:

Tony Payan, director of the Mexico Center at Rice University's Baker Institute in Houston, said Perry's plan was more about politics than security because the state's guard troops would play supporting roles on the vast border and likely be deployed for a short period of time.

"The operational impact is limited. This forces one to think that this is a political move by Rick Perry," he said.

You want to be able to blast Payan for that, but it'll take a lot of additional uniformed boots on the border.

Punchline of the day:

The governor's announcement came just days before Obama plans meet with the leaders of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador on Friday to discuss cooperation on the influx of child migrants from Central America.

Yes, "discussing cooperation" - in planning even bigger follow-up waves of "migrants".  It's like their version of the Yalta Conference....