Letter to President Barack Obama about shots at El Paso City Hall

Attorney General  Greg Abbott today sent a letter to President Barack Obama demanding that he provide more troops and resources to the Texas-Mexico border.

Abbott and Gov. Rick Perry have often said that the federal government is not doing enough to secure the border.

Today, he said news that bullets may have traveled from Juarez to El Paso's City Hall shows the need for immediate action from the federal government.

Below is the complete letter:

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President,

Deadly violence from drug cartels and transnational gangs in Mexico is knocking on the United States’ door with ever increasing frequency. Yesterday, gunfire from the cartels pierced that threshold and struck City Hall in El Paso. Fortunately no one was injured or killed. But that good fortune was not the result of effective border control – it was mere luck that the bullets struck buildings rather than bodies.

Luck and good fortune are not effective border enforcement policies. The shocking reality of cross border gunfire proves the cold reality: American lives are at risk. As the attached news article notes: “More than 1,300 people have been murdered in Juárez this year as a war continues relentlessly between the Juárez and Sinaloa drug cartels.” Americans must be protected as this deadly war bulges at our border.

Law enforcement officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety and your own U.S. Customs and Border Protection will reveal the hard truth. Our state is under constant assault from illegal activity threatening a porous border.

The time for talk has passed. The time for action is now. The need is urgent. Each day that passes increases the likelihood that an American life will be lost because of the federal government’s failure to secure the border.

This threat demands immediate and effective action by your Administration to secure our border. As the Attorney General of Texas, I urge you to make border security your top priority so that no more innocent lives are lost to border violence.

Comments

[F.R. Johnson]

i suppose mr abbott sent this to a golf course,where obama spends most of his time. maybe he could come to el paso and just wave at mexico and all this stuff would just stop!! no really we need to invade mexico just like " black jack" Pershing did ,make mexico state # 52 immigration problem solved !!!!

[Voice O'Reason]

How is anyone--the Border Patrol, the US Army, the Texas Rangers, FR Johnson, you name it-- going to be able to stop stray bullets from crossing airspace? This is political posturing pure and simple. Why doesn't this letter outline whatever solution Governor Goodhair thinks is the answer to this problem? He sure seems to give the impression he knows the answer to every other problem. And yeah, good idea-- Mexico as state number 52. (52? Who's 51?) What a black hole for sucking down resources that would be....

[Jennifer]

The federal government has FAILED to secure our border and protect the USA.

This means Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, etc. They have all FAILED us.

It's time for states to take actions to protect themselves, since the federal government cannot seem to do anything.

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