AP - Lawmaker: Texas to Send 1,000 Guardsmen to Border (After that, a mobilization of Texas theater ushers. Seriously, the Guard is great, but they will only be allowed to facilitate a more orderly invasion.)

PERRY SENDING NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS TO BORDER

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Gov. Rick Perry is deploying up to 1,000 National Guard troops to the Texas-Mexico border over the next month to combat what he said Monday were criminals exploiting a surge of children pouring into the U.S. illegally.

Perry, a vocal critic of the White House's response to the border crisis who is himself mulling a second presidential run, said the state has a responsibility to act after "lip service and empty promises" from Washington. . . .

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