Governor Greg Abbott, Republican of Texas, has taken the responsibility that is the proper duty of the feds, the security of our southern border. He briefs us on the current situation.
If this $80 billion were rerouted to the Army and the Border Patrol, we could easily stop much of the tide of illegal immigration and staff up our military so we have the soldiers we need to defend our country, argues @StephenMoore.https://t.co/j7keaI3JPh
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) August 11, 2022
Abbott: Last week, I formally invited the mayors of New York City and Washington, D.C. to Texas’ southern border to see firsthand the situation that Washington’s Mayor Muriel Bowser recently described as a humanitarian crisis. She has emphasized that the flow of migrants into her city is a “federal issue that demands a federal response.” Finally, something reasonable from a D.C. official.
President Joe Biden’s irresponsible open border policies have invited record-high numbers of illegal immigrants and transnational criminal activity directly into communities, not only in Texas but across the nation.
As governor of a southern border state, I have had to deploy unprecedented amounts of state resources–including more than $3 billion over the past 18 months–to the Texas National Guard, Texas Department of Public Safety, and local partners to help address the president’s national security failure and ensure the safety of Texans.
In response to the Biden administration’s unconscionable disregard for the southern border, I launched Operation Lone Star in March 2021 in partnership with these state agencies to protect Texans in communities. Thousands of deployed troopers and guardsmen are utilizing air, ground, and tactical border assets to combat Mexican drug cartels and other criminals who smuggle drugs and people into the U.S.
As of late July, the mission has led to more than 290,000 migrant apprehensions and the seizure of nearly 326 million lethal doses of fentanyl–enough to kill almost every American. With Texas bearing the brunt of the president’s catastrophic failure, in April I directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management to begin busing migrants to Washington, D.C. to provide relief to overrun border communities and bring the reality of the crisis to the federal government’s doorstep.
It was not long before Mayor Bowser began decrying the mission after receiving only a fraction of what Texas law enforcement encounter each day along the border. Mayor Bowser went so far as to request indefinite federal assistance from the National Guard to help D.C. cope with the humanitarian crisis.
The mayors are not alone in their concern over the flow of migrants into their cities, with their Democratic counterparts in south Texas truly overwhelmed by the crisis.
Laredo Mayor Pete Saenz has said his city is being overrun with migrants that U.S. Border Patrol dumps there. “We’re taking the overflow [from McAllen and the Rio Grande Valley]. We can’t handle it here.”
McAllen Mayor Javier Villalobos has said he needs as much federal support as possible “because we cannot be doing a federal job. This is not our responsibility. We’re just trying to keep our people safe.” He’s called the Biden administration’s response to his pleas “a callous disregard, to have Border Patrol just drop off immigrants in downtown McAllen.”
…Too frequently, we’ve witnessed the horrifying consequences of human smuggling and trafficking, yet Mexican cartels and other transnational criminals are emboldened to carry on with their deadly enterprises.
As Mayors Adams and Bowser recently acknowledged, the border crisis demands immediate and decisive federal action. I ask that they call on President Biden to stop dismissing this crisis and to honor his duty of preserving America’s national security.
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Wheres NM, AZ???
That the American public has done NOTHING by way of exerting ultimate political pressure on the terrorist Biden Adminstration is an abomination. This domestic terrorist cabal has to be stopped. One way or another.
why dont they dump illegal in bidens home and summer home ,or anywhere there is democrap support of illegals! most are not seeking asillem, they want all the free stuf americans dont get ,even
things we have worked for ! dammed democraps !!
Cranston PA is a great place to dump these illegal invaders. How about the homes of every denocrat politician.
What the corrupt media is failing to tell everyone is the FACT that these cities that are complaining about illegals being sent to their city all have boasted about being SANCUARY CITIES.