The Floodgates Are Open

Gov. Greg Abbott and U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Laredo Democrat, pressed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Monday to explain why the agency plans to reduce its aerial surveillance on the Texas-Mexico border.

In a letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, the lawmakers said the cut to a requested 3,850 hours of aerial detection and monitoring in 2016 amounts to 50 percent less coverage than recent years.

“Given the recent surge of migrants from Central America and Cuba along the southern border, we believe DHS should request more surveillance and security resources, not fewer,” Abbott and Cuellar wrote in a letter.

You can read the rest @
http://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/01/abbott-and-cuellar-question-dhs-over-cuts-border-s/

And here is a map of the so-called sanctuary cities to which the new migrants may go:

Source - http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-map-sanctuary-cities-cross-the-300-mark-with-dallas-philly/article/2582184

One gets the impression that some regions of the country are eager to attract them. Is it because "compassion" flourishes there, or do their corporations need more cheap labor?

In a somewhat related article, here is a description of the Mexican drug cartels operating in the US, along with maps of their "territories". Please note the geographic importance of Texas to the flow of drugs:

http://www.businessinsider.com/mexican-cartel-guide-2015-12

Apparently opening the border kills several birds with one stone - unions are busted, wages are driven down, drug money continues to flow into the right coffers, new voters are added to the roles, and the once proud nation state of the USA is destabilized even further.

Thank you, oligarchs. You're doing a great job destroying this country. Please also do you best to make sure Donald Trump does not reverse the process.