Rick Perry open to sending the US military into Mexico

Gov. Rick Perry says he's open to the idea of sending U.S. troops into Mexico to fight the drug war. The Texas governor told MSNBC this morning that border violence has escalated dramatically since George W. Bush was governor a decade ago. He said more aggressive federal tactics are needed. "You have a situation on the border where American citizens are being killed, and you didn't see that back when George Bush was the governor," he said.

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Rick Perry draws a border line

Gov. Rick Perry issued an urgent warning on Monday in both a letter to Barack Obama and a speech before a conservative think tank, saying he predicted a grim, deadly future if the border is not secured. Hoppe reports: http://dallasne.ws/9CcYWO

Perry on El Paso violence

Mulvaney gives it 4 peppers...

The claim...


In a TV interview last week about border security, Gov., Rick Perry said: "It’s becoming really frustrating when we’re seeing a Mexican governor assassinated across the border from Texas, you’ve got bullets hitting the City Hall in El Paso, you’ve got bombs exploding in El Paso."

The facts...


There has not been a car bombing, or other drug-related bombings, in El Paso. Asked what the governor was referring to, aides said that he meant to cite a July 15 car bombing across the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
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Texas to get biggest share of $60 million in grants to strengthen security on border

Weber from The Associated Press reports:
LAREDO – Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday that she was "firm" rather than testy with Gov. Rick Perry recently while he was again hammering the federal government over security along the Texas border.
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On the Border/ The American Journalism Review

Despite the danger, the Dallas Morning News’ Alfredo Corchado investigates violence and corruption along the border between the United States and Mexico. http://ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4890

By Karen Carmichael

Karen Carmichael is an AJR editorial assistant.

Texas senators stress need to stop Mexican violence from spreading to U.S.

Tom Benning reports:

WASHINGTON – Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison pressed for more federal action Wednesday in securing the Mexican border and preventing violence from spilling over into the United States.
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Aerial drone will fly on Texas border soon, Napolitano says

Gary Martin from the San Antonio Express-News reports:

WASHINGTON – Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a Senate hearing Tuesday that an unmanned aerial drone will soon fly through Texas skies as drug-cartel violence continues to escalate on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Texas is the last border state to receive a Predator drone, and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said the absence of one has hurt intelligence capabilities of federal, state and local law enforcement.
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