Still want to believe Texas Democrats, the President, and a few leadership-liberals in the Texas House that things really aren’t so bad on the Texas border with Mexico? Do you still buy the line of many editorialists and commentators that the DPS buildup along the border is all politics and has no substantive purpose other than pandering to xenophobic voters?
Those are the positions of many on the Left, some fake-Republicans too. When pressed, some will acknowledge that things aren’t great just across the river but that such isn’t happening in Texas and thus we’ve little reason to engage in a massive beef-up of border policing. But isn’t that a bit like saying if Canada were to find itself in a shooting war with another country (or more likely civil war with the French-Canadian east) that the U.S. would be unjustified in massing military forces near the border to protect from spill-over?
Early Monday, Gulf Cartel gunmen stormed the headquarters of Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, a city directly on the Texas border across from McAllen, Mission and Pharr. They knocked down the front gate and shot up the building before making their getaway according to Breitbart Texas.
We’ve a history of grenade attacks on media outlets and government buildings in the area as well as similar in other cities from Matamoros in the south to Juarez in the north. Yet Texas Democrats still pretend that there is little justification for the Texas forces buildup. Worse yet, the House chairman of State Affairs, one Rep. Byron Cook, handpicked by Speaker Straus for the powerful position, continues to carry the line of the Left that sanctuary cities and other related issues are only imaginings of reactionary conservatives.
Maybe the Speaker’s team should take its next strategy retreat in Reynosa, I’m sure many of the border Dems that keep them in power would tell ’em it’s safe as can be.
Speaker Straus team should take retreat in Reynosa, Mexico
Robert Pratt
Still want to believe Texas Democrats, the President, and a few leadership-liberals in the Texas House that things really aren’t so bad on the Texas border with Mexico? Do you still buy the line of many editorialists and commentators that the DPS buildup along the border is all politics and has no substantive purpose other than pandering to xenophobic voters?
Those are the positions of many on the Left, some fake-Republicans too. When pressed, some will acknowledge that things aren’t great just across the river but that such isn’t happening in Texas and thus we’ve little reason to engage in a massive beef-up of border policing. But isn’t that a bit like saying if Canada were to find itself in a shooting war with another country (or more likely civil war with the French-Canadian east) that the U.S. would be unjustified in massing military forces near the border to protect from spill-over?
Early Monday, Gulf Cartel gunmen stormed the headquarters of Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, a city directly on the Texas border across from McAllen, Mission and Pharr. They knocked down the front gate and shot up the building before making their getaway according to Breitbart Texas.
We’ve a history of grenade attacks on media outlets and government buildings in the area as well as similar in other cities from Matamoros in the south to Juarez in the north. Yet Texas Democrats still pretend that there is little justification for the Texas forces buildup. Worse yet, the House chairman of State Affairs, one Rep. Byron Cook, handpicked by Speaker Straus for the powerful position, continues to carry the line of the Left that sanctuary cities and other related issues are only imaginings of reactionary conservatives.
Maybe the Speaker’s team should take its next strategy retreat in Reynosa, I’m sure many of the border Dems that keep them in power would tell ’em it’s safe as can be.