News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, January 25, 2007

El Paso to get $400,000 to help with border security

By Brandi Grissom / Austin Bureau
El Paso Times
Article Launched:01/25/2007 12:00:00 AM MST

AUSTIN -- About 10 percent of the money for Gov. Rick Perry's latest border security operation will come to El Paso, and some of the soldiers who will take part in the mission will come from the Sun City, officials say.

Monday, Perry announced the launch of Operation Wrangler, a continuation of state-led border security initiatives that began in 2005. Wrangler will involve 6,800 federal, state and local personnel, including 604 Texas National Guard soldiers, and other ground, air and water resources.

Perry has already spent more than $20 million on border security initiatives since 2005.

Like past efforts, the newest mission will involve law enforcement surges in spots known for border-related crime. Perry said past surges reduced crime in rural border counties.

El Paso Police Chief Richard Wiles said his department would get more than $400,000 to put 30 officers on extra patrols around the clock for a week during the first surge.

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