Perry pushes on with plan to put cameras along border

Nearly two years after he promised to line the Texas-Mexico border with cameras and broadcast the footage over the Internet, Gov.

[Stop the Invasion]

Where and how can I report illegal aliens living in El Paso?

[Jesus]

Good plan Gov! Just watch out for that "powerful" El Paso city council, they won't even give the feds the access to do their job. What a bunch of jokers, they are 9 cards short of a full deck.

[A Hillbilly]

What a dumb idea. I'm sure the Border Patrol agents will appreciate all the panicky phone calls from the drunken rednecks who will be monitoring these video streams from all over the country. An obvious need to protect our borders has sadly turned into a hate-filled diatribe, and now Rick Perry wants to turn it into entertainment for people who have a decimal point between the two digits of their IQ score. Absolutely amazing!!

[sabrina]

Perry needs to be more agressive in closing our open border with mexico - we have no clue as to who is entering our country - what disease they may have, what their intentions are. Texans have had enough excuses and demand to see actions. We want those who are in our country illegally deported and we expect our elected officials to represent the citizens of this state not illegals.

[Cannot Wait to PCS]

A Hillbilly wrote:

What a dumb idea. I'm sure the Border Patrol agents will appreciate all the panicky phone calls from the drunken rednecks who will be monitoring these video streams from all over the country. An obvious need to protect our borders has sadly turned into a hate-filled diatribe, and now Rick Perry wants to turn it into entertainment for people who have a decimal point between the two digits of their IQ score. Absolutely amazing!!

It's wonderful that you and those like you that don't live with this issue daily have your opinion, but until you do live it everyday, please do those of us that see the direct effect of this problem a favor and keep that opinion to yourself. You might as well have been posting this comment from Maine.

[A Hillbilly]

Cannot Wait to PCS wrote:

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It's wonderful that you and those like you that don't live with this issue daily have your opinion, but until you do live it everyday, please do those of us that see the direct effect of this problem a favor and keep that opinion to yourself. You might as well have been posting this comment from Maine.

Even in Arkansas we see it first-hand. Illegal immigration is a problem, but it is a problem the federal government permitted to happen by ignoring the issue for 40 years. I'm in full agreement that if foreign nationals want to come into the USA, they should do it legally. Only recently have the feds allowed state and local law enforcement to be "specially trained" to help with immigration enforcement. And that isn't working well in most places. The problem is that the issue has become nothing more than a platform for grandstanding and hate-mongering. Where are the solutions based on common sense? So far, I haven't seen any. There's nothing wrong at all with using cameras to monitor the border. But it seems to me that to stream this stuff on the internet, and to invite everyone in the world to alert authorities if they THINK they see something, is just inviting chaos. The bottom line is, if the law is on the books, and if the law says that immigration enforcement is the sole province of the federal government, then the feds need to either enforce that law, or repeal it. In any case, the lawmakers -- the politicians -- need to stop the grandstanding, stop stirring up the masses to the point of hatefulness. I think illegal immigration is both an economic and a security issue. But whatever it is, it IS NOT and SHOULD NOT be entertainment.