It's the drugs that need to be stopped. In the last few months there are starting to be Mexico drug cartel type hits all over S. Texas. There's been 2 in the last two weeks in San Antonio alone. The media won't call it what it is either.

in congress by ending the war on drugs!

Don't mess with the Lone Star Republic Navy.

Sounds like they are expecting some retaliation from smugglers.

Not so much:

I thought the Rio Grande was often dry--and that the wetter it was, the lower the levels of smuggling both animate and inanimate contraband.

And the water level is low but I have no idea if they levels are too low for that boat. Some of the lakes (Falcon, Amistad) might be places they will patrol.

Billions of dollars for border sheriffs. In some of the poorest counties in the country, sheriffs have so much federal money that each of their deputies has two official vehicles (one patrol car, one SUV). That's Hudspeth County, Texas, according to Ioan Grillo in his book "El Narco."

And billions of more for insane state governors like Rick Perry and Jan Brewer to beef up their police state apparatus, all the while hyping the threat and screaming about how Washington isn't doing anything.

It's a big fucking gravytrain for bullet-headed hucksters like Sheriff Paul Babeu and his ilk. And we're paying for it.

If this country doesn't do something about all of the Illegal Immigrants, Drug trade, etc coming into this Country, then we are just 10 years from a Banana Republic. I do think there should be some heavy oversight here. I can see this coming back to haunt us!

The boats aren't to keep people OUT of the US, they're to keep people IN!

I think they will be used all over and the talk about them being on the border is a smokescreen.