Comment on Perry expected to call up National Guard to Rio Grande Valley

Perry wants these troops to bolster the work already being done with his surge of Texas Department of Public Safety troopers, said Hinojosa's spokesperson, Jennifer Saenz, who added that the governor gave the Rio Grande Valley delegation notice prior to the planned 2 p.m. announcement on border security. In Iowa on Sunday, Perry told a small group at a VFW hall that if President Barack Obama fails to heed his long-standing request to send 1,000 additional national guard troops, he would use his authority as governor to do so. The McAllen Monitor obtained an internal memo from another state official's office that indicates that the DPS officials want to send National Guard troops into western areas of the Valley and the ranch lands further north. The DPS and the National Guard are working to keep any drug and human trafficking south of (U.S.