Pay attention to the audits. Afghanistan is just a distraction.
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I think we should. Are you familiar with the Scottish border reivers? I highly recommend everyone look them up. They were land owners on the border with England who would arm up and go on raids and take defensive action against the English at their border. I'm all for that here. Ancient Perisa used to to give their satraps (governors) in their border provinces special titles and duties. Even the Serbians and Croats during the Napoleonic times would form border militias to rescue captured European slaves from the Ottomans.
If I had my way down there I would allow every landowner 150-200 miles from the border to arm up, organize and be deputized and put them under the watch of the Texas Rangers. I'd then have more traditional police forces keep their eyes on the cities. I'd increase their ability to run investigations also. Investigations are the law enforcement equivalent of running intel. A couple of really good investigation will give law enforcement a good disposition of the enemy and then good action can be taken.
Sounds like it’s time for you to run for office!
In short I'd have to run in Kansas.
Well I'm not in Texas. Being from Kansas I consider Texas to be the regional center. The region being the lower plains. Texas is also the gateway to the desert and the mountains. What happens in Texas effects New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and Louisiana. While illegal immigration is a national issue I think it can be alleviated regionally through cooperation between the states. I really think that looking at history can help in times like this. I would look back to one of the foundations of the western way of governing. Back in the times of Greece and places where there were many smaller states that made up the whole of a country they would form mutual defense leagues. So for example. The Achaean League in the time of ancient Greece or the Hanseatic League in the Holy Roman Empire. These alliances allowed these collections of small states to more easily access resources and manpower that they would otherwise have no access to. I think we should do that. Create something like a regional FBIs or CIAs which only operates for the signatory states. So to give you an example let's say Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and Louisiana signed on to this we could create a "Department for Immigration of the Lower Plains" which would operate in those states exclusively to mitigate illegal immigration.
Oh also one last thing. With DeSantis's law enforcement boys on their way to Texas I would see if they could be brought to help patrol around the Texas coast. I would imagine that there's a possibility that they know a thing or two about patrolling costal cities. They might not be able to do like coast guard level stuff but they might be able to run investigations in the cities on the coast of Texas.