With the number of illegal migrants flooding our southern border mushrooming daily under Biden-Harris, several Texas counties declared a border “invasion” on Tuesday in a move to pressure Governor Greg Abbott to do the same.
Today Abbott stopped short of a formal declaration of an “invasion,” but ordered the Texas National Guard and the state police to begin apprehending migrants who illegally cross the border from Mexico and taking them back to ports of entry.
A formal declaration, proponents argue, would allow the governor to enforce ‘war powers’ and have state law enforcement personnel not only take migrants back to the border but directly deport them.
However, Abbott is wary of challenging the federal government directly on immigration after the Supreme Court shut down Arizona’s previous attempts in 2012.
The declaration by the counties doesn’t grant the counties any additional legal authority and likely won’t pass legal muster — but officials are desperate to bring attention to the Biden border crisis.
As the New York Post reported:
“We’re being invaded. The facts are there,” said Kinney County Judge Tully Shahan at a press conference in Brackettville, Texas. “This is real. We want America to know this is real. America doesn’t know what’s happening here.”
County officials from Kinney, Goliad, Terrell and Uvalde Counties criticized the Biden Administration for what they called its “open border policy.”
The officials each shared stories of how their communities are being inundated by immigrants as humans and drugs are smuggled through their small towns on a daily basis.
The number of reported migrant encounters along the US-Mexico border once again made history in May — hitting a staggering 239,416 encounters, according to the latest available monthly Customs and Border Patrol statistics.
The counties were contacted by a former President Donald Trump official, Ken Cuccinelli, who has talked them into believing they can use the “self-help provision of the Constitution to declare an invasion.”
“This gives the governor, if he decided similarly, the authority to repeal that invasion,” Cuccinelli said at the press conference today.
Meanwhile the New York Times (NYT) reports that:
Abbott has said that his administration is considering taking the further step of invoking war powers in order to deport unauthorized migrants but that there are legal concerns. Among them, he said, was the possibility that doing so could “expose law enforcement in the state of Texas to being prosecuted” by the federal government.
But Abbott may also be testing the limits of what a state governor can do as a way to get the Supreme Court involved. As the NYT notes:
“This is setting up a test case,” said Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin. The Supreme Court rejected a similar effort by Arizona in 2012 to set immigration enforcement priorities, he said.
“But this is a different Supreme Court,” he added. “If you’re Texas, you might think, ‘Here’s a good opportunity to see if there’s still a majority for that precedent.’”
ALD
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And guess what? There isn’t jack s—-t Xiden can do about it. In retaliation though, he’ll give more of our national oil strategic reserve oil to china, hunters business pals.
Well GymS, I agree, but would like to add that Greg needs to grow a pair and take real action…. not just more talk. I know he is in a precarious political situation, but damned…. Someone has to do something to break the BS stalemate. That is all it would take…. might be risky, but let’s make a move to stop all of this.
Now have the Texas National Guard go in search of and arrest all of the leftists who have been aiding and abetting the invaders and charge them with the act of treason they have been committing. Then sit back and watch the Nazi Communist Leftist Hateful-Democrats scatter. They do fear being hanged by the neck as they deserve.
The House and The Senate would sure become quiet and peaceful.
Run Biden, run!
Do same for AZ & NM & Unite on stance alone
It should be done.
The best solution to this problem is to arrest the Demonrat party for violation of our laws to the point of treason.
About time!!
Did’ja ever wonder why Congress, Texas and Arizona caved the next 68 years to the ranchers and farmers …after President Eisenhower ran all the illegal aliens out in Operation Wetback? ……..Bribes perhaps?? Ya, that was it.
How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico
July 6, 2006 By John Dillin > > > > > > > Note the archive date!
https://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html
WASHINGTON
George W. Bush isn’t the first Republican president to face a full-blown immigration crisis on the US-Mexican border.
Fifty-three years ago, when newly elected Dwight Eisenhower moved into the White House, America’s southern frontier was as porous as a spaghetti sieve. As many as 3 million illegal migrants had walked and waded northward over a period of several years for jobs in California, Arizona, Texas, and points beyond.
President Eisenhower cut off this illegal traffic. He did it quickly and decisively with only 1,075 United States Border Patrol agents – less than one-tenth of today’s force. The operation is still highly praised among veterans of the Border Patrol.