Stray bullets fired from Mexico
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas For the second time in two months bullets from a gun battle in the escalating drug war in Juarez have struck a building in El Paso and Id like to commend the swift action taken by local and state law enforcement in the area" said Texas Governor Rick Perry yesterday after bullets from a gun battle in Juarez struck a building on the campus of the University of Texas-El Paso over the weekend.
Earlier this month Gov.
Perry hand-delivered a 4-page letter to President Obama detailing Texas concerns about the escalating drug war threatening our state and reiterating the governors request for more troops.
In June several bullets from a gun fight in Juarez struck El Paso City Hall.
By the grace of God the stray bullets from these incidents have yet to injure or kill a Texan" Perry said.
It is unconscionable that the Obama Administration is gambling with American lives betting that escalating violence from these cartels wont eventually shed the blood of innocent people on U.S. soil. Its time for Washington to stop the rhetoric and immediately deploy a significance force of personnel and resources to the border to protect our homeland" said Perry.
Nine months earlier a building and a vehicle on the campus of the University of Texas-Brownsville were also hit by stray bullets from Mexico.
We must ensure El Paso and other border communities remain a safe place for people to live work and raise a family" Perry said.
In early 2009 Gov. Perry asked the Obama Administration to approve the deployment of 1000 Title 32 National Guard troops in Texas. While border security is a federal responsibility it is a Texas problem and Gov.
Perry has not waited idly for Washington.
To fill in security gaps left by the federal government Texas has invested more than $230 million over the last several years for new technology improved communications equipment aviation assets boots on the ground & other resources.
