Obama ignores him. From KXAN:

In a letter delivered to President Barack Obama Monday on the tarmac at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Gov. Rick Perry wrote, “The Mexican cartels have recently added a new deadly weapon to their arsenal: Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Devices (VBIED), which they use to attack their rivals and the police.”

Citing car bomb examples from recent weeks just across the Texas-Mexican border in Juarez and Ciudad Victoria, Perry received no immediate answer from the president. The governor urged federal action before Texas communities suffer the same fate.

“An unsecured U.S.-Mexico border is a serious national security threat, menacing the safety and security of our citizens, and the federal government is obligated to secure it.” Perry said Monday in Austin. “Our citizens deserve the best possible effort to protect them from this advancing network of criminal gangs.”

In recent years, Mexican drug cartels have threatened the safety of people living in border towns. The governor requested 1,000 Title 32 National Guard troops for Texas, in addition to other resources, and said 286 National Guard personnel along the 1,200 mile border were not enough.

“Since 2006, this war has taken 28,000 lives,” Perry included in his letter. “We cannot afford to allow these cartels to believe they’re free to extend their reach across the border onto American soil.”

Federal drug enforcement agents have told Austin officials during the last year these Mexican cartels are recruiting local gang members to push their products north into the U.S. So far, they have an increase in this practice in Austin , San Antonio and Houston.

Nothing new really. Biker gangs have used bombings for years. The problem is that cartel interface with Islamic terrorists have increased the lethality of the devices as well as the will to use them. Here’s a video report:

h/t N.T.A.