{"id":21121,"date":"2014-07-21T20:11:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T00:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21121"},"modified":"2014-07-21T20:11:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T00:11:37","slug":"rick-perry-to-send-1000-national-guard-members-to-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21121\/rick-perry-to-send-1000-national-guard-members-to-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Perry to Send 1,000 National Guard Members to Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry announced today that he intends to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/07\/21\/texas-gov-rick-perry-plans-to-deploy-1000-guardsmen-to-border\/ \" target=\"_blank\">deploy up to 1,000 National Guard members to the state\u2019s southern border<\/a> to reduce crime in areas teeming with illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>The decision came after several failed attempts to get similar assistance from the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>If implemented, the decision will cost Texas taxpayers about $12 million a month. Though he could empower Guard members to arrest and detain illegal immigrants crossing into Texas, Perry has not committed to doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the Guard is likely to play an assistance role to federal Border Patrol agents. \u201cWe think they\u2019ll come to us and say, \u2018Please take us to a Border Patrol station\u2019 [for processing],\u201d says the head of the Texas National Guard.<\/p>\n<p>The move makes sense since Texas has absorbed many of the 57,000 unaccompanied minors that have crossed the border with Mexico since last October. The additional hands will, if nothing else, beef up the law enforcement presence in places where crime is on the rise, giving Border Patrol agents much needed assistance in steering and clearing the area.<\/p>\n<p>Given the federal government\u2019s duty to secure the border and the Obama administration\u2019s failure to do so, this is probably the best Perry \u2013 or any other governor \u2013 can do for the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry announced today that he intends to deploy up to 1,000 National Guard members to the state\u2019s southern border to reduce crime in areas teeming with illegal immigrants. The decision came after several failed attempts to get similar assistance from the Obama administration. If implemented, the decision will cost Texas taxpayers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,1464,1460,1553,2366,3578,838,826],"class_list":["post-21121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-border","tag-border-patrol","tag-illegal","tag-immigrant","tag-national-guard","tag-rick-perry","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21124,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21121\/revisions\/21124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}