Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) on Thursday authorized the Texas National Guard and state troopers to apprehend illegal aliens and return them to ports of entry.
This is the action our country needed long ago.
Republican states should have banded together to send illegal aliens back over the border.
Thankfully, Texas is finally taking this action to fight the invasion at our southern border.
Biden’s open-border policies have wrecked the country and made life more dangerous for American citizens.
Just last week, 51 migrants were found dead in a truck in a human smuggling operation in San Antonio, Texas.
Abbott finally pulled the trigger and took the unprecedented action to stop the invasion.
“While President Biden refuses to do his job and enforce the immigration laws enacted by Congress, the State of Texas is once again stepping up and taking unprecedented action to protect Americans and secure our southern border,” Abbott said in a statement.
I issued an Executive Order authorizing the Texas National Guard & Texas Dept. of Public Safety to return illegal immigrants to the border.
Cartels have become emboldened by Biden's open border policies.
Texas is taking unprecedented action to STOP this criminal enterprise. pic.twitter.com/ag08ACYP3Y
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) July 7, 2022
From The Texas Tribune:
Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday cleared state authorities to return migrants they apprehend to the border, setting up a potential clash with the federal government over the authority to enforce immigration law.
Immigration law enforcement is a federal responsibility. Abbott appears to be testing the limits of state authority by empowering state law enforcement and National Guard troops under state deployment to bring migrants to the ports of entry — stopping short of using state resources to expel migrants from the country, as immigration hawks have increasingly called for in recent months.
It was not immediately clear how state law enforcement would determine which migrants should be transported.
Despite the state’s allocation of $4 billion for border security and the deployment of thousands of National Guard troops and state police to the border, Abbott has faced growing pressure from within his party to assert a stronger state role and invoke “invasion” powers under the U.S. Constitution. Such a declaration, some Texas Republicans contend, would give states solid legal ground to invoke war powers to allow the state’s National Guard to deport migrants. The idea has been widely derided by legal experts as a political ploy, and Abbott earlier this year expressed concern that it could expose state law enforcement to federal prosecution.
But on Thursday, Abbott stopped just shy of fulfilling those requests.
Abbott’s actions come on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court, with help from justices Roberts and Kavanaugh, overturning President Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy.
Here is the opinion from John Roberts in Biden v. Texas: https://t.co/zuSZpiDQP0. Roberts is joined by the three liberals + Kavanaugh. Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Barrett dissent.
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 30, 2022
President Trump initiated a law that forced migrants crossing the U.S. Southern border who claim they are seeking asylum remain in Mexico until their cases were reviewed by U.S. Courts.
With the asylum policy overturned, thousands of migrants are marching to the U.S. border.
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