SOB: Strengthen Our Border

The massive amount of money that is being spent to oversee the Texas Border crisis is drastically draining our government funding.  I completely agree with author Nick Eckert’s Texas Glimpse blog about Illegal immigration: fiscal issue, and how the issues occurring at our border are costing Texas taxpayers unnecessary expenditures.

He points out the fact that Texas tax payers have already been “fiscally burdened” by illegal immigrants each year, and the recent border catastrophe is only adding to our past existing fees.   Texas could save an enormous amount of money if we focused more on protecting the border with a long term solution.  I agree too that we should build a wall or permanent structure in order to safeguard our border.  Our governor sending National Guard troops is only a short term fix, and Texas officials need to absolutely look at the future of where our weak border is beginning to drain and diminish our state.  I would support paying higher taxes if our state would look at building such a structure.  It would not only be a deterrent to the immigrants trying to cross, but it would also free up our Border Patrol allowing for them to effectively protect the border.

Our Texas border crisis has become a political platform for all political parties.  Our local and national government officials need to work together on this controversy.  We should not just be looking at it as a crisis occurring in our state, but a crisis that’s detrimental to our entire nation.