Texas official says border is unsafe
Sat, 26/03/2011 - 8:46am
Republican U.S. Rep. Ted Poe, of Texas, visited the U.S.-Mexico border while touring Cochise County Friday. Here he leans on a border vehicle barrier, south of Geronimo Trail, east of Douglas, as he looks into Mexico. (Bill Hess •Herald/Review)
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DOUGLAS — Looking at a 4-foot-tall vehicle barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, a Republican congressman from Texas simply said, “This will stop cars but not people.”
Touring the Arizona border and meeting with ranchers Friday morning and afternoon and later with U.S. Border Patrol officials, Ted Poe, a four-term congressman who represents his state’s Congressional District 2 in the Houston area, remarked that Janet Napolitano is wrong when she says the border is in the best shape, security-wise.
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It really is amazing that Janet Napolitano can sit in Washington and say the Border is Secure as it has ever been.
It is secure for her because she is 3,000 miles away Ms. Napolitano does not have a clue.
Tell the familes of Rob Krentz, Brian Terry and all the other victims of crimes that occur from the violence along the U.S./ Mexican Border that the border is secure.
There was a be-heading in Chandler, AZ October of 2010 that was a result of the drug violence in Mexico
I worked for 30 years as a law enforcement officer along the U.S. Mexico Border. IT IS NOT NOR HAS IT EVER BEEN SECURE!
Napolitano will continue to believe the border is secure until we get our asses handed to us when not if a terrorist attack occurs in the United States and it is tracked back to have com
Why is it only Republicans want to say our Southern Border is not safe? This person has acknowledged Gabby Giffords as being one who wants to make the border safer. Is she the only Democrat that has these views? I worry about the ILLEGAL Drug Cartels coming across the Mexican - Arizona Border. I believe Gabby Giffords was likewise concerned about this problem before she was shot by that idiot about 1 mile from my home in Tucson, AZ.