Posted on 10/23/2021 8:24:41 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott gave the green light for thousands of specially trained National Guard troops to go to the Southern U.S. border and begin making arrests of illegal aliens who are trespassing in the state.
In a new deterrence approach to combatting the lasting effects of Biden’s border crisis, Abbott is using Operation Lone Star to grant Guard members new authority to make civilian arrests of illegal migrants beginning this week following at least “40 hours of traditional police training in the use of deadly force.”
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw confirmed to Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies that approximately 3,000 of these specially trained National Guard members are scheduled to go to the border over the next six weeks.
“Nobody’s ever really used the guard before in this capacity,” McCraw said. “We’re going to use them to actually secure the border. The governor, the legislature, and the citizens of Texas have made it very clear; they want the border secure. It is good for our federal partner as well. The federal government should be thanking the state of Texas, and it’ll make the rest of the country safer as we increase the level of security.”
The newly-armed Guard will primarily work with the Texas Department of Public Safety officers in overwhelmed areas such as Del Rio, Texas, to arrest, handcuff, and charge individual male illegal aliens who are traversing private ranchland to get into the United States.
“[Ranchland] owners have all entered into state agreements to become complainants in misdemeanor-level criminal trespassing cases that DPS officers will charge (and have been charging since July),” Bensman reported. “The so-called single male ‘runners’ run because they are still subject to federal instant expulsion policy to control the Covid-19 pandemic.”
Women, unaccompanied children, and family groups will not be arrested by the state.
Since the beginning of the fiscal year in October 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has encountered more than 1.5 million illegal aliens at the Southwest land border, according to official CBP data, including more than 200,000 migrant encounters in both July and August. The Washington Post reported yesterday that according to unpublished CBP data obtained by the outlet, border arrests hit an all-time high as “U.S. authorities detained more than 1.7 million migrants along the Mexico border.”
Abbott signaled earlier this month that the Texas National Guard was “gearing up” to handle the increasing number of illegal aliens making their way across the border using caravans.
“Texas National Guard is gearing up at the border for increased caravans attempting to cross the border caused by Biden’s open border policy,” Abbott tweeted. “They are working with the Texas Dept. of Public Safety to seal surge locations at the border & arrest trespassers.”
Texas National Guard is gearing up at the border for increased caravans attempting to cross the border caused by Biden’s open border policy.
They are working with the Texas Dept. of Public Safety to seal surge locations at the border & arrest trespassers.
@TexasGuard pic.twitter.com/VAKGoHak0G
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) October 2, 2021
He also noted the transport of tactical vehicles to the border at the end of September.
Texas National Guard surge transports tactical vehicles to the border.
The @TexasGuard continues to surge equipment & personnel to the Texas border to provide more support to address Biden's ongoing crisis.
Texas is securing the border. pic.twitter.com/dZ4O6sXTEG
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) September 28, 2021
So if you are a citizen trespass in the capital a9the people’s house) you get jailed for months with no court date or due process. Then you get fined BUT if you trespass into our country you get free lifetime EVERYTHING. Corrupt much dems?
Unfortunately, California is a blue state which welcomes anyone and anything inside its borders. Illegal- come on in. Homeless - terrific. Criminal - you bet. Deviant - all the better.
When out FBI and CIA ops create a mass murder event at the border and blame it on the national guard
I was “armed” many times in my 20 year career, including M16, M10 (S&W 38 SPL), and M1911 (45 ACP) with nary a single round of ammo in sight so I’m not getting excited about this Lying, Dying Fake News Liberal Media - NO Lie They Won’t Tell report.
And do what with them, where?
Hmmm...let’s see. The federal government creates immigration LAW. It then ignores those same immigration LAWS.
So, if I were traveling down the highway with a speed limit of 65 mph and I simply chose to ignore the 65 mph speed limit law and step on the pedal to do 85 mph...by ignoring the law would I not be BREAKING the law?
Uh huh. Those in the Harris/Biden administration are breaking the law. The only recourse to bring them into compliance would be a separate but equal branch of the government, The U.S. Supreme Court.
If the federal government can simply ignore (break) the law, then why should we adhere to the law?
I remember Jorge Bush using at nauseum the phrase, “The Rule of Law”. I hated hearing that phrase.
There is no “Rule of Law” in America. There is no equal justice under the law in America. There is no longer due process under the law in America.
I’m not just saying this to be provocative...it is just reality. Laws by lawmakers are ignored. Executive orders thrown about by the president, governors, county judges, city mayors that all conflict with one another’s edicts.
Everyone wielding power, everyone ignoring each others power. Kinda comical really.
Why should hard working, law abiding, tax paying citizens abide by the law/rules/regulations when millions of illegals pour into our country/states with impunity? Breaking our laws, falsifying government documents, perjuring themselves to illegally obtain government assistance on the state/federal/local governmental levels.
Not advocating anything...just thinking through the mess we find ourselves. Just appears like a damn free for all and the middle class average joe six pack is stuck paying the tab all the while being labeled homophobe, xenophobe, transphobe, evil white racist bigots.
Things must be really bad for Abbott to FINALLY do something other than talk.
Finally!!!
If he ever hoped to be president...that’s shot, Gov. Abbott (sp?)
Excellent question, CO.
This should have been done a long time ago.
Before we hustled disease-ridden people to God knows where in the dead of the night.
Now a man who looks like that, with a tattoo on his head, is bound to find a high-paying job on Wall Street.
(do I really need a sarc tag?)
LOL. What a loser.
Sadly, white men are now evil.
Not in my book, however. I love men and love to please them.
Why not line the banks of the Rio Grande and prevent them frome setting foot on the US side ?
Gov. Greg Abbott allow a bounty on illegals it’s the only to get the job done bonus round everyone gets to earn money.
No D.O.A. excepted
Yeah, those armories are all to blame. /s
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