Texas Governor Pleads For U.S. Troops On Mexico's Border

Villanueva residents block a highway to protest escalating drug violence in and around their town. Alfredo Valadez / La Jornada

Call For US Troops To Man Mexico Border -- The Australian

THE Texas Governor has made an extraordinary call for the militarisation of his state's border with Mexico, asking President Barack Obama for troops as a violent drug war and rising political instability in Mexico threaten to spill over into the Lone Star state.

Governor Rick Perry said he wanted 1000 troops to help guard the Texas-Mexico border and for the Obama administration to start funding stronger security measures amid rising alarm over the Mexican drug cartels and the bloody battle for control of the smuggling of cocaine into the US, the world's largest market for cocaine.

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Update: Napolitano to study Perry's request for more border guards -- Dallas News

My Comment: This is probably the first time since the civil war that a U.S. Governor has requested U.S. troops to protect his borders.

Not a peep from the U.S. mainstream media. I had to read an Australian paper to get this news.