An El Paso resident says resources are being wasted on security
(NEWSER) - GOP candidates love to talk about “securing” the border, especially Rick Perry. “It is not safe on that border,” the Texas governor said recently; last year, he even claimed, without any evidence at all, that bombs were exploding in the streets of El Paso. But “those of us who actually live along the border know otherwise,” writes El Paso judge Veronica Escobar, in the New York Times , noting that last year El Paso was ranked among America’s safest cities. More»