PERRY TO SEND TROOPS TO THE BORDER

  

Texas Gov. Rick Perry will immediately send up to 1,000 National Guard troops to help secure the southern border, where tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors from Central America have crossed into the United States this year in a surge that is deemed a humanitarian crisis.

Gov. Rick Perry
Gov. Rick Perry

Perry also wants President Barack Obama and Congress to hire an additional 3,000 border patrol agents for the Texas border, which would eventually replace the temporary guard forces.

Perry, in Austin Monday, announcing what he called Operation Strong Safety, says he, “…will not stand idly by,"  and that “the price of inaction is too high."

Texas has received the majority of migrant children, especially in the Rio Grande region, and Perry says he has repeatedly called on the federal government to beef up border security.

A White House spokesman says they have not received a formal communication required for Perry to deploy guard troops.

But he said if Perry follows through, he hopes those forces would be coordinated "with the significant ongoing efforts already in place."

 

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