MARBLE FALLS, Texas – City officials in Marble Falls, Texas want the federal government to know they’re not interested in housing illegal immigrants that continue to pour across the state’s southern border.

In fact, the city is so adamant about it that officials passed a resolution last week declaring their opposition over concerns about how the minor immigrants would impact the local school system, sap the city’s financial resources, and bring in dangerous diseases, ABC reports.

“We wanted to really put out the fact that we did not want to be a sanctuary city,” Marble Falls Mayor George Russell told the television station.

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The resolution reads, in part, “That all federal agencies will not request, permit or establish any facility for the purpose of processing, housing or detaining illegal aliens, designated as ‘refugee’ or otherwise in the City of Marble Falls,” according to CBS.

“If kids can walk up from a foreign country and walk across the border, we must not have much border enforcement out there,” Russell said.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry seems to agree.

Perry announced plans Monday to send up to 1,000 National Guard troops to the Rio Grande Valley to combat the growing number of illegal immigrants trekking into the state from Central America, and he’s willing to spend as much as $12 million a month to secure the border, ABC reports.

“What you have to have is this clear presence on the border, where people understand that you no longer can just freely go and walk across the Rio Grande and stay in America from now on,” Perry said last week, according to the news site.

“That’s the message that we sent by these failed policies,” he said, referring to President Obama’s immigration strategy.

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“On June 18, Governor Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and House Speaker Joe Straus agreed to give the Texas Department of Public Safety an additional $1.3 million per week for more ‘boots on the ground’ and ‘more helicopters, more planes (and) more boats,’” ABC reports.

According to estimates, as many as 60,000 unaccompanied minors have crossed into the United States from Central America since October. The National Guard troops are expected to be deployed to the western section of the Rio Grande Valley, as well as the rural ranch land farther north, according to the news site.

Perry’s action stands in stark contrast to President Obama’s inaction on the recent immigration crisis, which has essentially amounted to flying or busing illegal immigrants into communities across the country. According to media reports, many of the immigrants are simply released with a promise to return for future immigration proceedings.

Obama’s critics believe the president’s policies will ultimately result in most of the illegal immigrants remaining in the United States, as evidence shows very few are ever deported.

Marble Falls officials obviously believe federal and state governments could be doing a lot more to discourage immigrants from coming into the country at all.

“The resolution also calls on the federal government to improve border security, and state lawmakers to abolish in-state tuition subsidies, welfare benefits and free non-emergency health care for immigrants in the U.S. illegally,” ABC reports.