Gov. Perry wants recon platoons on border

San Antonio Express-News/Houston Chronicle:

A new border security proposal drafted by Gov. Rick Perry would put 600 soldiers in “reconnaissance platoons” to scour 20 remote areas for drug and immigrant smugglers, part of a call-up of 1,000 Texas National Guard troops to full-time duty.

In his latest of a series of anti-crime border initiatives, Perry wrote in an April 2 letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano that the patrols would “provide an immediate increase in the ‘boots on the ground.’ ”

Napolitano so far has made no recommendation to President Barack Obama.

Perry considers border security a federal responsibility, a spokeswoman said. He could call out the Guard on his own, but Texas would have to pay for it. The $135.6 million it would cost the first year isn’t included in the state’s recently adopted $182.3 billion budget for 2010-2011.

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They would probably help. Controlling the border is a force to space problem and the more force you put out there the more difficult it is for people to cross illegally. I am not sure of the Obama administrations commitment to stopping the traffic.

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