Dewhurst Ad: Border Patrol Should ‘Fight Back’

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David Dewhurst has released a new ad calling for more border security and attacking President Obama for wanting “amnesty,” reports Hotline On Call. Dewhurst, the Texas lieutenant governor, is in a primary run-off with Ted Cruz for the GOP Senate nomination in Texas. The ad comes amid Obama’s move to stop deportations for some young immigrants, and after a Supreme Court ruling that blocked parts of Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

The ad contains strong language about immigration and the border and hits on just about every hot-button immigration issue. That Obama wants “amnesty,” Dewhurst says, “burns me up.” Texas ranchers, are being “overrun by human trafficking.” And, he ads, “now it’s international gangs and people from the Middle East and China.” As a solution, Dewhurst proposes to “triple the size of the border patrol and authorize them to fight back.”

Dewhurst is spending six figures to run the ad statewide, according to Hotline.

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