Rick Noriega leads border security task force

The Mexican American Legislative Caucus in the Texas House this week formed a border security working group to get started on planning for the next regular session in 2009.

The Border Security Task Force will hold a series of town-hall style meetings in cities along the border and around the state to solicit input of Texans then develop recommendations about border security for the next Legislature, said Rep. Rick Noriega, D-Houston, leader of the task force.

He also wants the task force to keep an eye on how the state spends more than $100 million in border-security funds the Legislature approved, most of which will go to Gov. Rick Perry’s office of Homeland Security.

Rick Noriega steps up.