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Greg Abbott Just Escalated His War on Illegal Immigration in a Huge Way

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Gov. Greg Abbott is apparently throwing caution to the wind with his latest move to curb illegal immigration in his home state of Texas. Today, Abbott announced that enforcement agencies under his control, specifically the National Guard, will now begin arresting illegal immigrants crossing the border.

(related Greg Abbott Executes a Hilarious but Completely Necessary Troll Using Biden’s ‘Stimulus’ Money)

This came on the heels of news that nearly 90% of the 50,000 illegal immigrants released by the Biden administration without a court date have even bothered to check in as required.

Abbott seemingly gets more based by the day.

“Beginning on May 31, 2021, I have issued multiple proclamations certifying under Section 418.014 of the Texas Government Code that the surge of individuals unlawfully crossing the Texas-Mexico border poses an ongoing and imminent threat of disaster for certain counties and agencies in the State of Texas,” Abbott wrote. “To respond to this disaster and secure the rule of law at our Southern border, more manpower is needed — in addition to the troopers from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and soldiers from the Texas National Guard I have already deployed there — and DPS needs help in arresting those who are violating state law.”

“By virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas, I hereby order that the Texas National Guard assist DPS in enforcing Texas law by arresting lawbreakers at the border,” he ordered.

My big question is what they are going to do with these illegal immigrants once arrested? Will they hand them over to ICE, where they’ll undoubtedly just be let go? Or will they remain in state and local facilities? That’s going to get complicated, especially as the number of arrests climbs. I doubt Texas has enough jail space to make this work for long. With that said, I could be missing a part of the plan. We’ll have to wait for more details to see how this will all transpire.

Past that, you can also expect lots of pushback from the Biden administration. It wouldn’t surprise me if the DOJ is preparing a lawsuit right now claiming that Texas doesn’t have the legal authority to enforce immigration laws. The left’s view on federalism is that if it’s something they like (weed, gun control, or illegal immigration), states can defy the federal government to facilitate it. Otherwise, Washington rules all.

I doubt Abbott cares about any of that, though. He seems to understand that illegal immigration is a major issue in his state, and he’s willing to take whatever chances are necessary to do something on the matter. If the DOJ wants to come after him, let them do it. That won’t win Abbott praise on CNN, but it will continue to turn formerly blue areas red inside of Texas, especially Hispanic border communities like McAllen.

Kamala's Huge Lie About Border Debunked as Illegal Aliens Thank Biden for Letting Them In

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In June, Kamala Harris argued that the Biden/Harris Administration was making “extreme progress” in dealing with the massive influx of illegal aliens at the border.

Not only wasn’t that true, indeed it was actually getting worse, with June becoming the worst month in 21 years and every month under this administration going up for border encounters/detentions at almost 190,000 people. Usually, the encounters go down in the summer and the entries drop because it’s so hot. Instead, it’s been surging.

On top of that, she can’t list one concrete thing that she’s done toward reducing the tide of immigration beyond talk — no actual policy change or action that she believed was going to reduce the influx.

Meanwhile, Fox’s Bill Melugin has been documenting the incredible surge at the border that just completely refutes Kamala Harris’ claim.

One response was truly priceless, because it showed exactly what the problem was here, in very few words.

Thanks to Biden for the opportunity to come here now. Whatever else Biden or Harris say, they know that now is the time to come because Biden will let them in. Even now, these people showing up at the border are coming from all over the world because they know they will get in. They are flying into Mexico and then taking a bus to the border.

Then on the other side, they get into buses and are taken to get processed, then are released. This is pretty crazy; this isn’t border patrol — this is turning the border patrol into social workers and travel agents. According to Melugin, there have been 20,000 this week alone and a million this year.

Yikes: Biden Paying Ton of Taxpayer Money to Suspend Operations on Border Wall

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One of the first things that Joe Biden did when he took office was to stop the building of President Donald Trump’s border wall and change Trump policies in regard to the border.

Not only has Joe’s approach been an abject failure, with the flood of illegal aliens coming in record numbers, stopping the wall has had a big cost, as well.

Trump built 450 miles of wall, but now, Biden is actually paying a ton of money out to not build the wall — to suspend the construction projects for the wall — even as migrants pour in.

From Fox News:

The report by the minority staff of the Government Operations and Border Management Subcommittee of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee found that efforts to suspend or terminate wall construction projects at the Defense Department have cost between $1.8 billion to $2 billion and the administration is spending $3 million every day.

“These interim findings show that the Biden administration’s efforts to stop border wall construction constitute significant waste of taxpayer resources,” the report says. “As of the drafting of this report the Biden administration has paid border wall contractors at least $2 billion and counting to not build the border wall.”

“This $2 billion comes directly from DOD’s budget, and the Biden administration’s continued waste of these funds poses risks to national security and border security,” it says.

Initially, it was actually $6 million a day, but they reduced that by laying off people. Now the money is being spent basically to have the contractors “drive out to project sites and guard the unused pallets of steel and other construction materials,” according to the report. The report also indicates this number may be significantly undercounting and they may actually be spending much more of the taxpayers’ money in this ridiculous effort.

Imagine the insanity of America under Biden. He refuses to actually do his job, stops what was being done, and now is even paying a ton to keep it halted while people stream in. If you told someone an American leader would do such a thing a few years ago, no one would believe you. This is how far over the edge Democrats and Biden have taken us.

Oh, and by the way, you really don’t have a right to know any of this. Pentagon spokesman Chris Mitchell told Fox News that they wouldn’t be commenting on all this. We “will not comment publicly on matters that are in active litigation or settlement discussions,” he said.

Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., the lead Republican on the subcommittee, slammed the Biden administration over the findings.

“It is absolutely absurd that Americans are paying contractors to guard metal gates that President Biden refuses to install because he wants to ‘study’ the wall,” he said in a statement. “Stubbornly refusing to spend money approved for the wall is not ‘executing’ the law. It’s ignoring the law and ignoring the very real national security concerns posed by illegal entry across our very open southern border. For years I have called out federal waste, but the Biden Administration is literally ‘going for broke’ with this nonsense.” [….]

“Our border patrol agents are doing their best to secure our border, but they need additional barriers, roads, and technology to help keep us safe,” Lankford said. “Instead, President Biden is paying professional construction contractors to babysit metal to the tune of $2 billion and counting, while at the same time we’ve seen a 20-year high number of migrants crossing our open border.”

To top all that off, DHS has also announced they will be canceling 30 miles of construction which had been planned in the Laredo sector in Texas.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is trying to get the rest of the wall done himself, as we previously reported, given the failures of the federal government.

But it would be hard to imagine someone who has done more damage than Joe Biden in such a short period of time.

Texas Border Wall: Gov. Greg Abbott's Plan is to Bypass the Fed

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Fox News’ Bill Melugin was given exclusive access to the initial construction on Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s promised barrier in Del Rio, across from the Rio Grande River.

From Melugin’s report, we learned that the intention behind the temporary fences, which we know can be easily scaled over or cut apart, and the “No Trespassing” signs, are to draw a bright line between state and federal jurisdiction.

I asked what a chain link fence is going to stop? Texas DPS tells me the idea is to cut the feds out of the equation. No trespass signs allow them to arrest on local charges. Instead of calling Border Patrol, they will take migrants to jail for violating Texas law.

When you cut out the middle men between Law and ORDER, then your ability to actually conduct both increases exponentially. According to the report on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom, DPS is looking to increase enforcement. When you no longer have to hand off illegals and migrants trying to breach the Texas border, then you can use Texas law as the barometer of enforcement.

Texas is, and has remained, a sovereign state. There is always talk about secession from the United States to once again become its own territory. Gov. Abbott’s moves seem to be a reminder and a reinforcement of this.

Brent Smith, an attorney in Kinney County wrote in a Op-Ed:

The state of Texas, as a sovereign political entity, has the inherent authority to enforce its own borders and protect its citizens. Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that the federal government shall protect each state of the Union against invasion. It is not voluntary. It is a constitutional mandate created to guarantee the protection of all the states in the Union. Anticipating that the federal government at some point may not follow the constitutional mandate, the framers added something else, another guarantee for the states. Under Article I, Section 10, Clause 3, the states reserved their sovereign authority to act in the protection of their citizens when threatened by “invasion or imminent harm.”

It is only logical to conclude that the authors of the U.S. Constitution included this expressed reservation of state sovereignty for times when the federal government is not able, or willing, to uphold its guarantee of protection under Article IV, Section 4. In other words, this reserved authority functions the same way as a “break the glass in case of emergency” scenario.

The glass has been broken.

WATCH: Crazy Video of CBP Letting in Hundreds of Illegal Aliens Across Border, While Cubans Are Denied

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We reported earlier on the massive surge of people at the border and how a huge number of the folks coming in are now positive for the Wuhan coronavirus, with a 900% surge in the last two weeks.

You can see from these stunning videos from Fox LA’s Bill Melugin, with people at the gates, how crazy it is. Hundreds just showing up and demanding to be let in. The kicker? Most of them were just let in. First, the CBP seemed to just be letting in the families, then they basically let everyone in, including the single adult males.

This is going on while they have the highest numbers of encounters of illegal crossings at close to 190,000 in June and with the system at the border so overwhelmed, they no longer have places to put people.

This is not only dangerous and so insulting to every legal immigrant that went though the process properly. Imagine what the Cubans must think if they see this, when they are told, even if they have legitimate asylum claims, if they come by boat, they will be denied, according to Alejandro Mayorkas. Any random can walk across the border, but actual legitimate asylum seekers (who are likely non-Communist) are out of luck.

Why? I’m sure the fact that Cubans would likely be non-Communist and would likely at some point vote Republican would have nothing at all to do with it. Unfortunately, Cuba’s poverty makes it unlikely that legitimate Cuban asylum seekers could afford to pay the thousands to coyotes to make it to our Southern border. On a broader scale, this is a complete upside down denial of what the asylum system is supposed to be about.

This is the insanity that the Biden/Harris administration has wrought. Do we even have a border or the rule of law anymore?