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Gov. Abbott, border states prepare for deluge of crossings with Title 42 ending
thecentersquare.com ^ | 12/18/2022 | Bethany Blankley

Posted on 12/18/2022 7:39:31 AM PST by ransomnote

(The Center Square) – With Title 42 enforcement ending Wednesday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the leaders of other border states are preparing for an expected deluge of illegal entries into the U.S.

The anticipation of the end of Trump-era public health authority, which allowed Border Patrol agents to immediately expel illegal crossers for fear of spreading COVID-19, has already led to a surge of new entries, with the El Paso Sector at the southern border and the northern sector including Vermont seeing record numbers of illegal crossings.

"While the federal government abandons its constitutional duty to defend America and secure the border, the State of Texas continues taking unprecedented action to deescalate and decrease the influx of dangerous criminals, illegal weapons, and deadly drugs like fentanyl into our country,” Abbott said. “Stepping up to overcome extraordinary challenges is embedded in the spirit of Texas, and I have no doubt that the exceptional men and women serving Texans – and Americans – through Operation Lone Star will employ the best possible strategies to navigate the uncharted waters of President [Joe] Biden’s escalating border crisis."

Abbott met with the heads of the Texas Military Department and Department of Public Safety on Friday to discuss the state’s response to the anticipated deluge.

The briefing was held near the border with TMD Adjutant General Thomas Suelzer, DPS Director Steve McCraw, TMD Major General Win Burkett, and other Operation Lone Star leadership and local officials.

It came after Abbott said Texas would be constructing more of its border wall next month after successful negotiations were reached with private property owners.

“It took months to negotiate with owners on the border for the right to build on their property,” Abbott said. “We now should be building more border wall all of next year.”

Earlier this year, Texas began building a border wall on state land as well as putting up border barriers along the riverbank and in the Rio Grande River. The state also deployed gun boats to patrol the Rio Grande River, placed razor-wire at low-water crossings and high-traffic areas, installed container blockades to stem the flow of illegal crossings, among other actions.

“Texas continues working collaboratively with border communities, private landowners, and other stakeholders to build the Texas border wall and stem the flow of illegal immigration and transnational criminal activity into Texas,” Abbott said.

Since Abbott launched Operation Lone Star in March 2021, state law enforcement officers alone have apprehended more than 333,000 illegal foreign nationals and made over 22,000 criminal arrests, with more than 20,000 felony charges reported.

DPS officers have seized more than 354 million lethal doses of fentanyl, enough to kill more than everyone in the U.S.

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1 posted on 12/18/2022 7:39:31 AM PST by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

Good thing Trump built a wall. Oh wait, he didn’t.


2 posted on 12/18/2022 7:41:09 AM PST by NeverCheney
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To: ransomnote

I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find out the FedGov is down south drumming these hoards up.


3 posted on 12/18/2022 7:42:37 AM PST by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: ransomnote

Send them all to the blue states of the upper northeast.

Let them choke on the disaster they created by installing the dead husk.


4 posted on 12/18/2022 7:44:09 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: ransomnote

Prepare?

No.


5 posted on 12/18/2022 7:45:11 AM PST by stanne
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To: NeverCheney

I think he built as much as he could (we have all seen it... right?).

Then his work was interrupted unexpectedly (much like the last election cycle) and reversed.

Are you pretending like you have not seen pictures of the wall? What did we all see, a banana?


6 posted on 12/18/2022 7:45:14 AM PST by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: ransomnote
Why not STOP THEM AT THE BORDER???

IT'S IN THE CONSTITUTION!

Why is the 101st Abn Div in ROMANIA and not on our BORDER???


7 posted on 12/18/2022 7:47:29 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: ransomnote

So what’s this eff’n RINO loser going to about it, charter more buses? That made its point, but to what effect?


8 posted on 12/18/2022 7:47:39 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: Travis McGee

Totally agree.


9 posted on 12/18/2022 7:49:14 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: ransomnote

Twin 50’s should do the trick.


10 posted on 12/18/2022 7:49:19 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Travis McGee
The feds will not make the needed move, too much risk, little reward.

Individual governors stand a better chance of success.

Without a Bundy Standoff by the militia, there is little chance of a closed leak proof border.

On a political solution, passing a law making ANY benefits off the table would slow down the grifters and moochers/sponges.

11 posted on 12/18/2022 7:53:04 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: NeverCheney

ransomnote: Trump's fault that he's the Executive Branch and not dictator? Congress, as you well know, along with clown Biden defunded the wall every chance they got and you're blaming Trump?

Trump to Seize More Border Wall Money Through Brute Force

 
Jan 15, 2020 — Of the $18.467 billion in Trump's wall funding between 2017 and 2020, only $4.566 billion was actually approved by Congress. That means Congress ...
 

FACT SHEET: Department of Defense and ... - The White House

Jun 11, 2021
 
"On his first day in office, President Biden issued a Proclamation terminating the redirection of funds for border wall construction, pausing all wall construction to the extent permitted by law, and requiring the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Office of Management and Budget, to develop plans for funds concerning the Southern border wall." 
 

Trump Administration Diverts $3.8 Billion In Pentagon Funding To Border Wall

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/13/805796618/trump-administration-diverts-3-8-billion-in-pentagon-funding-to-border-wall


12 posted on 12/18/2022 7:54:37 AM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote

Abbott put out feelers to the shipping industry that Texas will buy all of their scrap shipping containers.

Start building the wall.

Of course few would probably cooperate for fear of offending Democrats.


13 posted on 12/18/2022 7:55:17 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spiritIq)
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To: ransomnote

Send then all to the DC Swamp and Biden and Kamala’s homes.


14 posted on 12/18/2022 7:56:47 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: ransomnote

Shut down the ports of entry


15 posted on 12/18/2022 8:06:59 AM PST by kaktuskid
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To: rktman

“Twin 50’s should do the trick.”

That and tell them to go to California. It gives them an alternative. It makes the point Texas will not take it any more. It is an invasion.


16 posted on 12/18/2022 8:07:17 AM PST by Dennis M.
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To: NeverCheney

Biden’s goons are suing to stop States from putting up barriers to stop illegals. Cartels are getting $6,000 PER ILLEGAL. Up to $30,000 for Chinese illegals.

Biden’s agreed to give them all free phones and phone service so the cartels can keep track of their indentured servants’...

DO THE MATH: What would Biden’s goons cut be at the 10% rate? It’s a small fortune. Enough to buy off ‘intelligence’... that’s for sure.


17 posted on 12/18/2022 8:10:39 AM PST by GOPJ (Is China hiring governemtn officials based on sexual weirdo kink? NO)
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To: ransomnote
Does anyone really think the open Border and the tsunami of invaders is an accident, that it is not part of a strategy to weaken and destroy the USA and deliver her to America's enemies?

Does anyone really believe that it is anything other than a complete sell-out of the American People and the USA?

Does anyone really believe that the open borders, the flood of fentanyl and other soul-destroying drugs, the flood of unscreened invaders into the USA, etc. are designed for any reason other than to weaken and destroy the USA?

Does anyone really believe that Joe Biden, who is a figurehead, and the powerful cabal who control his puppet strings have any intention of doing what's best for the American People and the USA?

Does anyone doubt that they would sell every man, woman, and child in America into slavery?

You cannot believe anything coming from the Government or the media or any other lackeys of the Establishment, and any time the Establishment and its toadies, in the media etc., dismiss something as "conspiracy theory," you can be sure it's the truth or getting close to it.

There has been a coup d'état in the USA, and we are living the nightmare that has resulted from it!

Does anybody really believe a clown like Joe Biden could be elected President by a majority of the American People in a fair and honest election?

Does anybody really believe that all these "conspiracy theories" and reports of political assassinations and imprisonments are bogus?

Does anyone really believe that the President who vowed to make America great again and was consequently persecuted and oppressed and removed from office did not receive this abuse because he was a threat to the Establishment and to the powerful cabal who control Biden's puppet-strings and the US Media?

Does anyone doubt that this cabal exists?

Anyone who supports Joe Biden, the Democrats, the RINOs, and the secret cabal is, whether knowingly or unwittingly, part of a fifth column in the USA, serving those who are determined to destroy America and enslave the American People.

18 posted on 12/18/2022 8:11:36 AM PST by Savage Beast (Americans DESPISE the corrupt elites, their media toadies and their corruption of the US government!)
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To: NeverCheney

Biden’s goons are suing to stop States from putting up barriers to stop illegals. Cartels are getting $6,000 PER ILLEGAL. Up to $30,000 for Chinese illegals.

Biden’s agreed to give them all free phones and phone service so the cartels can keep track of their indentured servants’... (on the TAXPAYERS DIME)

DO THE MATH: What would Biden’s goons cut be at the 10% rate? It’s a small fortune. Enough to buy off ‘intelligence’... Is it possible the insane is happening because someone is making a fortune? Have you noticed illegals often have matching bags, blankets, shoes? The Chinese at $30,000 a pop could just as easily fly to New York - but ‘intelligence’ Homeland et al will NOT give NON-CARTEL folks to stay.


19 posted on 12/18/2022 8:14:38 AM PST by GOPJ (Is China hiring governemtn officials based on sexual weirdo kink? NO)
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To: GOPJ

“Biden’s goons are suing to stop States from putting up barriers to stop illegals”

Too bad the Republicans didn’t build the wall when they had the power. But keep blaming just Biden …


20 posted on 12/18/2022 8:16:20 AM PST by NeverCheney
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