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AG Merrick Garland: It's ‘Unlawful’ for Texas to Stop Bussing of Illegal Aliens into U.S.
Breitbart ^ | July 30, 2021 | John Binder

Posted on 07/30/2021 5:39:25 PM PDT by White Lives Matter

Attorney General Merrick Garland says it is “dangerous and unlawful” for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to stop the federal government’s bussing of border crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of the United States.

This week, Abbott issued an executive order that bans local, state, and federal law enforcement officers from providing ground transportation for border crossers and illegal aliens who have been detained by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) or who have been ordered removed under the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) Title 42 authority.

The order also allows Texas state troopers to “stop any vehicle upon reasonable suspicion” of transporting border crossers and illegal aliens and “to reroute such a vehicle back to its point of origin or a port of entry if a violation is confirmed” as well as allowing state troopers to impound vehicles that are caught violating the order.

In response, Garland wrote a letter to Abbott in which he claims Texas does not have a right to interfere with President Joe Biden’s expansive Catch and Release operation and threatening a lawsuit if the order is not rescinded:

I urge you to immediately rescind Executive Order GA 3 7, entitled Relating to the transportation of migrants during the COVID-19 disaster. The Order purports to mandate that “[n]o person, other than a federal, state, or local law-enforcement official, shall provide ground transportation to a group of migrants who have been detained by [U.S. Customs and Border Protection] for crossing the border illegally or who would have been subject to expulsion under the Title 42 order.” As explained below, the Order is both dangerous and unlawful. [Emphasis added]

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: abbott; aliens; border; democratcommie; garland; gregabbott; illegalaliens; invasion; merrickgarland; texas; traitor
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To: White Lives Matter

Deputize millions of armed Texans and have them stand shoulder to shoulder on the U.S. / Mexican border.

And tell Garland to go pound *hit.


81 posted on 07/30/2021 6:57:38 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (No masks necessary? I guess voting by mail will be eliminated for 2022 and 2024. Yippee!)
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To: Americannae1362
I am surprised that no one has slashed the tires on these buses yet.

Unless they are federal property, it should be a matter of state law if owned by a contractor.
82 posted on 07/30/2021 7:04:02 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: BusterDog

Next, Garland will call it an “insurrection”, and worse than the Civil War. Biden will then chime in that Abbott is not as smart as he thought he was.


83 posted on 07/30/2021 7:05:48 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: White Lives Matter

Merrick Garland is a prime example why we should shut down the law schools, and require that people serve apprenticeships before sitting for the bar exam. The truly scary thing is there are many more like him.


84 posted on 07/30/2021 7:07:57 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian

Ding... Ding... Ding... Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

Head over to Bush’s Chicken and I’ll buy.


85 posted on 07/30/2021 7:08:43 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: Arcadian Empire

Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and Obama facilitated the invasion.
Trump was the only one who tried to stop it.
That’s why both parties cheated him out.


86 posted on 07/30/2021 7:08:46 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: White Lives Matter

I don’t think he understands exactly what Texas is doing.


87 posted on 07/30/2021 7:14:11 PM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: White Lives Matter

Shoot the tires out!!!


88 posted on 07/30/2021 7:33:27 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: White Lives Matter
8 U.S. Code § 1324 - Bringing in and harboring certain aliens


(a) Criminal penalties
(1)
(A) Any person who
(i) knowing that a person is an alien, brings to or attempts to bring to the United States in any manner whatsoever such person at a place other than a designated port of entry or place other than as designated by the Commissioner, regardless of whether such alien has received prior official authorization to come to, enter, or reside in the United States and regardless of any future official action which may be taken with respect to such alien;

(ii) knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, transports, or moves or attempts to transport or move such alien within the United States by means of transportation or otherwise, in furtherance of such violation of law;

(iii) knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation;

shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B).

(B) A person who violates subparagraph (A) shall, for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs—

(i) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i) or (v)(I) or in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), or (iv) in which the offense was done for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both;

(ii) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), (iv), or (v)(II), be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both;

(iii) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) during and in relation to which the person causes serious bodily injury (as defined in section 1365 of title 18) to, or places in jeopardy the life of, any person, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both; and

(iv) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) resulting in the death of any person, be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, fined under title 18, or both.

(C) It is not a violation of clauses [1] (ii) or (iii) of subparagraph (A), or of clause (iv) of subparagraph (A) except where a person encourages or induces an alien to come to or enter the United States, for a religious denomination having a bona fide nonprofit, religious organization in the United States, or the agents or officers of such denomination or organization, to encourage, invite, call, allow, or enable an alien who is present in the United States to perform the vocation of a minister or missionary for the denomination or organization in the United States as a volunteer who is not compensated as an employee, notwithstanding the provision of room, board, travel, medical assistance, and other basic living expenses, provided the minister or missionary has been a member of the denomination for at least one year.

[snip]

(c) Authority to arrest
No officer or person shall have authority to make any arrests for a violation of any provision of this section except officers and employees of the Service designated by the Attorney General, either individually or as a member of a class, and all other officers whose duty it is to enforce criminal laws.


Provision (c) authorizes "all other officers whose duty it is to enforce criminal laws" to arrest illegally entered aliens. Wouldn't that also include state police officers?

Should it not matter that Biden wants to ignore the law when the law also authorizes all law enforcement officers to enforce the law at their own discretion?

-PJ

89 posted on 07/30/2021 7:49:25 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: White Lives Matter

The Communist Tyranny Is Growing Exponentially & Nothing Is Being Done About It!

90 posted on 07/30/2021 7:51:20 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: White Lives Matter

Not a single thing this administration is doing, has done, or will do is for the benefit of America. It’s all for the party. If the country needs to be destroyed and millions of people have to die? Party uber alles.


91 posted on 07/30/2021 8:16:43 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: White Lives Matter; All
Any Texas actions that AG Garland is complaining about being unlawful, such federal laws must be reasonably justifiable under the very limited powers that the states have expressly constitutinally given to the feds, or the laws are unconstitutional.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.

92 posted on 07/30/2021 9:15:16 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Lurkinanloomin; TLI; White Lives Matter

There must be a word, somewhere in the English language, for a person who facilitates an invasion of their own country.


93 posted on 07/30/2021 9:42:45 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire
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To: White Lives Matter

This was predicted 50 years ago in “The Camp of the Saints” by Jean Raspail.


94 posted on 07/30/2021 11:05:31 PM PDT by Sixgun Symphony (uie)
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To: Dusty Road

He does understand, and he wants the invasion to continue without any hindrance.


95 posted on 07/30/2021 11:55:08 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: Arcadian Empire

Yes. A Democrat.


96 posted on 07/30/2021 11:55:40 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: rfp1234

“How many divisions does Garland command?”

Roughly 100, at 20,000 per division, at least if one considers all of the armed people under Biden’s (or whoever’s command). Texas could likely muster up the same amount, but would lack the communications capability of the federal government. To put it another way, Texas will need outside help...and lots of it.


97 posted on 07/31/2021 2:39:07 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: White Lives Matter
AG Merrick Garland: It's ‘Unlawful’ for Texas to Stop Bussing of Illegal Aliens into U.S.

By that very same logic, it's probably "unlawful" for Texas to stop the bussing of armed Chicom infantry troops into the interior of the U.S.

Regards,

98 posted on 07/31/2021 3:23:20 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: BenLurkin

Posse Comitatus was violated at Waco.


99 posted on 07/31/2021 3:23:59 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I realize that part but what he’s whining about has nothing to do with Federal Law, Abbott’s enforcing State Law. Texas is not stopping or interfering with any federal operation. The AG has no jurisdiction in this case.


100 posted on 07/31/2021 3:27:48 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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