The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has ordered the Texas National Guard to cease its activities at the U.S.-Mexico border after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott opted to use state resources and personnel to stem the flow of illegal border crossers.
Gov. Abbott’s decision followed record-high levels of illegal immigration across the southern border, including a recent surge in crossings in Eagle Pass, Texas.
Just last month, Abbott signed several bills into law that gave state authorities the power to enforce border laws.
“President Biden’s deliberate inaction has left Texas to fend for itself,” Abbot said
On Jan. 11, Texas media reported on National Guard troops occupying Shelby Park in Eagle Pass and subsequently denying access to federal agents.
According to documents filed with the Supreme Court, the Department of Homeland Security alleges that Texas National Guard troops are denying Border Patrol agents access to approximately 2.5 miles of the Texas-Mexico border and blocked a boat ramp used by Border Patrol agents.
On Jan. 14 Jonathan Meyer, the General Counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, sent a letter addressed to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, which was obtained by NBC News.
Meyer called Texas’ actions illegal, writing that recent actions taken by the Texas National Guard “conflict with the authority and duties of Border Patrol under federal law and are preempted under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.”
He demanded that Texas immediately “cease and desist” any actions taken by the State that block Border Patrol’s full access to the U.S.-Mexico border in and around the Shelby Park area.
At the end of the letter, Meyer added an ultimatum for the Texas state government.
Meyer wrote that if Texas doesn’t allow federal Border Patrol agents access to the Shelby Park area by the end of the day on January 17, the DHS will “refer the matter to the Department of Justice for appropriate action and consider all other options available to restore Border Patrol’s access to the border.”
Hold the line Texas!
FJB and his communist minions!
If we keep letting Mexicans in, wouldn’t America turn into Mexico? Mexico is one of the murder capitals of the world.
After the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, Obama refused to send in federal clean-up crews, and then forbade the Gulf Coast states from doing the job themselves – although I don’t think they listened to him. What was he going to do? Arrest all the shrimp fishermen trying to protect their livelihoods (to say nothing of the thousands of volunteers working with them to remove the oil from the beaches, marshes, and wildlife)?
The federal government has no authority whatsoever in affairs of our states. This was one of the several reasons that we fought a civil war 150+ years ago – to preserve states’ rights. It is illegal for the federal government to step into a state without the permission of or request by that state’s administration. A federal border is also a state border, and Texas and every other state have every right to do what they can to preserve and protect their borders from any invader, from without or within.
This is why President George W. Bush did not send in the National Guard or FEMA into Louisiana in 2005 in advance of Hurricane Katrina, because he had to be asked. It was the governor’s responsibility to ask for the service. For weeks before the hurricane struck (Katrina being perhaps the most well-advertised hurricane in meteorological history, being tracked for at least three weeks before it made landfall), Bush repeatedly called the governor to ask if she wanted him to send help, but she kept waffling until it was too late. Then Bush was blamed for the tardiness of the federal response. (Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida stood up to his responsibility shortly thereafter when a major hurricane struck his state; he called the president as soon as the hurricane revealed its most likely path.)
It’s called “states’ rights,” the preservation of which was hard-fought and hard-won.
Imagine this; you want to replace the majority of your citizens with compliment, uneducated, slave class people. Easy enough but the problem is you need to do it in record time, say maybe in one administration, what to do? Perhaps you could start by reducing the number of people wanting to join the military till there are record low levels in the ranks, then do everything you can to start a war. Let’s say maybe someplace like the Yemen, Iran, Korea, Ukraine, Sweden or Taiwan. Reinstate the draft and problem solved, citizens replaced with body bags. A vote left is a vote for the draft, be careful what you wish for.
@over there.
Yes , and I believe that’s just the start of it. These people are evil and will not stop at anything to complete the destruction of our. Count dry