GOV. GREG ABBOTT TWEETS :
Posted on 03/09/2021 7:41:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
With the federal government wallowing in indecision amid the border crisis manufactured by the Biden administration’s policies, Texas has marshaled its own resources to protect its citizens.
“Today Texas launched Operation Lone Star to respond to the border crisis. It deploys Nat’l Guard + DPS Officers + air, ground, marine, & tactical border security assets to deny Mexican Cartels & smugglers the ability to move drugs & people into Texas,” Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted, hours after reminding the world that Texans know how to fight back.
“The crisis at our southern border continues to escalate because of Biden administration policies that refuse to secure the border and invite illegal immigration,” said Abbott, according to KFOX-TV.
“Texas supports legal immigration but will not be an accomplice to the open border policies that cause, rather than prevent, a humanitarian crisis in our state and endanger the lives of Texans. We will surge the resources and law enforcement personnel needed to confront this crisis,” he said, according to KXXV-TV.
Texas Department of Public Safety Col. Steve McCraw met with Abbott last month to discuss how the state should respond to the rapidly burgeoning crisis along the border.
Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas said that time is rapidly approaching, according to KGNS-TV.
“In the last 7 days in the valley they have stopped 10,000 individuals and 2,500 individuals in the last two days and many are being released,” he said. He said that he fears Laredo will soon be swamped.
“Remember what happened under the problem we had last time?” said Cuellar. “What did they do? [they said] ‘oh, we have too many people in the south, so let us send them to Laredo.’
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Well done. One of many actions states need to take against Fed.gov
Governor Perry had to do the same thing when Joe’s boss was in the White House.
A step in the right direction, but far greater numbers of armed Texans need to be on the Texas side of the Rio Grande.
Stopping this invasion needs a huge amount of men and equipment.
Go Texas!
Coronavirus positive illegals will infect Texans and of course Texas will be blamed because they opened for business. Queue the media...
Is this where the next “shot heard around the world” will come from?
Stopping this invasion will require either deportation of the illegals that are crossing, or threat of use of force. I hope Texas can figure out a solution. I hope they are not just gathering up the illegals and handing them over to be released.
Issue a 1k bounty on each illegal, dead or alive. Pretty sure our illegal alien issues will immediately go away and our border will become like a ghost town.
Thank God that he is a Governor who is manly enough to stand up for his State and its people.
ALL border states should be doing this. Of course, I don’t expect my RINO Governor Ducey to do this.
....you are exactly corrrect...and even with Gov. Abbott’s order removing the mandatory face diaper/mask edict, I find soooooo many businesses have now stated their “no mask, no service” policy....it is total insanity...Kroger, Starbucks and Target have recently come out with this stupid mandate...
we have truly become a nation of sheep.....
AMEN TO THAT !!!
Start digging mass graves? Or bury them under the wall? Just kidding.....kind of....
Bus them all directly to DC and Delaware
... figuratively speaking!
Not one word about this on my local San Antonio news station last night (WOAI). I wonder if they will cover it tonite?
Abbott found his spine.
Federal troops will be used to suppress Texans who do that as was done under Obama.
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