Retired generals say Texas-Mexico border is now a combat zone!

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - September 28, 2011 - Tired of hearing from the White House that the Texas-Mexico border is more secure than ever, the Texas Department of Agriculture, along with the Department of Public Safety, hired two retired U.S. generals to evaluate the true status of the region.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples released Texas Border Security: A Strategic Military Assessment, an independent study conducted by former General Barry McCaffrey and Major-General Robert Scales, at the Protect Your Texas Border Summit in Austin.

Among their findings is that “criminality spawned in Mexico is spilling over into the United States.”

According to the study, Mexican drug cartels are building a "sanitary zone" about one county deep within the U.S. along the Texas border. They will use this zone to escape Mexican law enforcement and provide an area of safe movement for drug smugglers and human traffickers.

Texas is the “tactical close combat zone and frontline in this conflict. Texans have been assaulted by cross-border gangs and narco-terrorist activities.”

“Washington keeps telling us our border is more secure than ever, but this detailed military assessment, by two of Amerika’s top generals, offers proof to the contrary,” Commissioner Staples said. “It’s time to shed the cloak of denial and protect our citizens and national security. It’s time for Washington to uphold its constitutional duty to protect Amerikans on their home soil,” he added.

Texas landowners and officials have been witnessing and pleading with the illegitimate Obama regime for increased federal support to defend the U.S. border.

“During the past two years, the southwestern United States has become increasingly threatened by the spread of Latin American and Mexican cartel organized crime,” said General McCaffrey.

“The violence and ongoing threat to our security reflects a change in the strategic intent of the cartels to move their operations into the United States,” said Maj. Gen. Scales. “Amerikan cities and rural areas now have Latin American drug, gun and human smuggling cartels operating inside our borders.”

Their findings indicate living and working in a Texas border county is equivalent to living in a war zone. Law enforcement agencies, civil authorities, journalists, and citizens are in continuous and growing danger of attack.