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rumdude

(448 posts) Mon Apr 13, 2015, 06:41 PM Apr 2015

"In the fall of 2009, then-Gov. Rick Perry announced the formation of Ranger Reconnaissance Teams, elite units of the Texas Rangers that he said would help the state “fill in the gap left by the federal government” in securing the Texas-Mexico border.

But the units also might have pushed the boundaries of international law, according to internal Texas Department of Public Safety documents obtained by the American-Statesman."

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/did-dps-spy-on-mexico-internal-documents-claim-it-/nksBQ/#e68b1273.3590780.735701