Selling the High Price of Border Security
It's not a sales pitch heard too often in the Rio Grande Valley. Farmers and ranchers here — used to haggling over the price of feed, irrigation rights and labor costs — have a new, tax-deductible option for improving their businesses.
And the company offering it promises to take a bullet for its client.
International Security Agency, a private security firm with offices in Colorado and Houston, announced last week in McAllen that it has received the required licenses from the Texas Department of Public Safety to operate locally. Its mission is to stop cartel-style violence in the United States before ...
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Chris Reynolds via Texas Tribune on Facebook
So why did the ATF supply weapons to Mexican gangs ?.
Matthew Whitt via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Just make dope legal.
Terri Russo via Texas Tribune on Facebook
and why is the NRA opposing the narco-weapons crack down in the 4 boarder states? They said leave it to the states? they need to get their story straight....
Scott Nicol via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I know I'll feel much safer with Blackwater clones running around McAllen. Maybe we should pull down the bridges and mine the Rio Grande while we're at it.
Stefanie Herweck via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I was just thinking what we need down here in South Texas is armed thugs licensed by the government
J.r. Armendariz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Minimum wage for a security guard $13, really? On the border? I doubt it. http://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/america.htm#Texas
Del Murphy
f I were king or emperor of America, I would do exactly what Ronald Reagan did. [Reagan said], ‘You know what? You hurt an American citizen — I don’t care where you are — and I am coming after you.’ And we’re in America.”
Obviously he forgot about the guys who blew up the marines in Beruit.