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TexasTowelie

(111,956 posts) Thu Jun 19, 2014, 12:01 AM Jun 2014

State's Leadership Instructs DPS to Increase Patrols on Border

The Texas Department of Public Safety has been instructed to immediately increase its efforts to secure the Texas-Mexico border with a $1.3 million-per-week operation, the offices of Texas House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and Gov. Rick Perry announced Wednesday evening.

The increased enforcement is in response to the recent surge of undocumented immigrants breaching the Texas-Mexico border, including more than 33,500 unaccompanied minors who have been apprehended in the U.S. Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley sector since October.

“The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol … has apprehended more illegal immigrants in the Rio Grande Valley in the first eight months of the current federal fiscal year (over 160,000) than it did for all of fiscal year 2013 (154,453). In May 2014 alone, USCBP reported apprehending more than 1,100 illegal immigrants per day in the Rio Grande Valley,” the state leaders said in a joint news release.

“This year, like last year, more than half of the individuals apprehended at the Texas-Mexico border by USCBP are from countries other than Mexico," they added. "Additionally, 34,000 unaccompanied alien children (UAC) have been apprehended in Texas so far this year, with estimates that number will reach 90,000 by the end of the fiscal year. By comparison, 28,352 [unaccompanied minors] were apprehended in fiscal year 2013.”

More at http://www.texastribune.org/2014/06/18/states-leadership-instructs-dps-increase-patrols-b/ .

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State's Leadership Instructs DPS to Increase Patrols on Border (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2014 OP

So what is going to be cut to come up with $1.3 mill per week? hobbit709 Jun 2014 #1

The immigrants were called OTMs in the late 1980s when they flooded in to the Harlingen,TX DhhD Jun 2014 #2

And what will happen to those children.... northoftheborder Jun 2014 #3

hobbit709

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1. So what is going to be cut to come up with $1.3 mill per week?

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Jun 19, 2014, 08:17 AM

Jun 2014

you just know something essential will be slashed to cover this.

DhhD

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2. The immigrants were called OTMs in the late 1980s when they flooded in to the Harlingen,TX

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Jun 19, 2014, 08:34 AM

Jun 2014

federal immigration processing center, seeking asylum from the gorilla warfare of the Sandinista in Honduras and Nicaragua. OTM stands for Other Than Mexican. Reagan released the immigrants to leave Harlingen when the immigration center could no longer process the huge number of immigrants. I believe that aliens could register at any post office. Public notices on TV called on the public and aliens for many years, saying that it was the law for them to register at a Federal Office-Post Office. See the I-821 Temporary Protected Status Application, below in the second link

Perry is trying to cover and confuse the issue of asylum vs. job seekers. South and Central Americans are seeking asylum. Governor and Lt. Gov should send the bills to the US State Department, instead of panhandling. It is my opinion that TX State Government would then divert federal money to fence building contractor who would donate to conservative campaigning, if the State received a blank check ahead of time.

http://www.us-immigration.com/uscis/texas/harlingen-local-office.html

Looks like there are six USCIS local offices in Texas. Click on state abbreviation to change states.

http://www.us-immigration.com/temporary-protected-status-application-i-821.jsp

northoftheborder

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3. And what will happen to those children....

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Jun 19, 2014, 12:18 PM

Jun 2014

....who, already are overburdening the US federal facilities and abilities to provide for them humanely; worse, what will happen to them if they cannot cross the border at all? Left to the fate of the Mexican non-government?

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