Posted on 10/18/2023 5:38:08 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered the state's National Guard to install a barrier in some parts along the Texas/New Mexico state line. Officials say guard members have been placing concertina wire in an area close to Sunland Park, New Mexico, which shares a border with El Paso, Texas.
Footage shot by KVIA shows some of the fencing running along the Rio Grande.
ABC News has reached out to Texas officials, who have not yet provided an estimate of how much fencing is being installed.
Abbott says the barrier is meant to deter migrants who cross from Mexico into New Mexico before heading to El Paso.
"Texas installs fencing along NEW Mexico border. Our barriers around El Paso forced the migrants crossing illegally to enter into New Mexico. They then entered into El Paso from there. To end that, we are building a barrier on the New Mexico border," the governor posted Sunday on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
In a statement given to ABC News, the Texas Military Department (TMD) said the Texas National Guard is "fortifying" the border between the two states.
"The Texas National Guard has heavily fortified the border in El Paso with 18 miles of concertina wire. We are now fortifying the border between Texas and New Mexico to block migrants who are entering New Mexico illegally and then crossing into Texas. The effort in El Paso was bolstered by the recent deployment of the Texas Tactical Border Force to El Paso. The Texas National Guard remains focused on operations to prevent, deter, and interdict transnational criminal activity and illegal immigration along the border," the TMD public affairs office said.
A spokesperson for New Mexico Rep. Gabe Vasquez says state officials were not warned about the governor's plans.
A statement given to ABC News by Vasquez said, in part, that the barrier is unconstitutional.
"However, this is one of the many political stunts that the Texas governor has cooked up to demonize immigrants and that provides no real long-term solution to the crisis that we're facing. Governor Abbott has done this before. He has put up an illegal border wall with shipping containers, then he conned migrants into taking buses to other states without their clear consent, then he put up a death trap on the Rio Grande that drowned innocent migrants seeking asylum, and now, his latest stunt is putting up a barrier between Texas and New Mexico," Vasquez said.
Abbott is facing an ongoing lawsuit over his decision to install a floating barrier in the Rio Grande on the U.S. and Mexico border. The state is arguing that they did not need permission from the federal government to install buoys along a 1,000-foot stretch of the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas.
The governor's office has not responded to an ABC News inquiry about whether Texas officials discussed Abbott's plans with their New Mexico counterparts.
The Texas Military Department, Department of Public Safety, and the governor's office did not answer when asked how much of the planned 18-miles-long wire fencing has been placed and if more is planned.
"The state stands ready to assist as requested by federal or local partners to ensure individuals are treated with compassion and respect while maintaining public safety. We encourage Gov. Abbott to turn his attention away from a never-ending stream of political stunts and toward working in earnest for the people of the state he was elected to represent," said Caroline Sweeney, a spokesperson for New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.
In a joint statement, the Democratic Party chairs of both Texas and New Mexico called for the barrier to be removed."Shame on Greg Abbott for using public tax dollars to uplift his dangerous approach to border security, and infringing upon Texans' and New Mexicans' right to move freely across state lines. Texas and New Mexico Democrats condemn Abbott's razor wire fencing along our state borders, and call for its removal effective immediately," their statement read in part.
At an event hosted last month by the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, Abbott said that even if Texas was able to stop all unlawful entries through the Texas-Mexico border, some would still be coming in from New Mexico.
"Not only are we building border barriers between the border of Texas and Mexico, we're also having now to build border barriers between Texas and New Mexico," he said.
Privileges and immunities clause and many SCOTUS decisions culmination in Saenz v Roe.
I don't know if Texas is pro Irony, however your question may apply that way, too.
Gotta destroy national sovereignty for the coming New World Order of the Antichrist. /shiny side out
You gonna be that cock-sure about it you’d best cite chapter and verse.
CA has “Agricultural” check-points on all highway entries into the state that impose a “barrier” to entry under defined conditions.
TX is imposing a barrier to entry under a defined condition.
Frankly, I think you’re both just jaw-jackin’ but you’re free to prove me wrong.
Calif can srop produce not people at its checkpoints. I’ve driven through them. And the ummunities and privileges clause arises from the EXPLICIT right of travel written into The Articles of Confederation.
Um, what’d I do to get drawn into this? I just pointed out that the state of Texas can’t use land mines. If for no other reason than the National Firearms Act of 1934, which basically says Texas can’t have them without Fed permission for each and every one.
Ahhhh, yes. That was my mistake. You responded seriously to an unserious post about placing mines. So then I mistakenly thought you were actually addressing the topic of this entire thread: putting concertina wire along a stretch of the TX/NM border, and — here we are.
[sigh] That’s the trouble with the internet, these days; can’t tell the serious from the unserious; never quite sure if someone’s being sarcastic, or if they really think they’re onto something.
My old school gut says the comment about placing land mines was unserious, but — ya never quite know, anymore. So, I guess I understand how you got roped into replying as if they were serious.
You are, indeed, correct about the legal technicalities of placing land mines. I’ve no idea why anyone would even suggest it other than in the vein of dark humor.
The people being stopped by the concertina wire are not Citizens — they enjoy neither Constitutional protections, nor does the Bill of Rights apply to them in the lest degree.
Citizens are not being unconstitutionally impeded because the wire is not being emplaced across routes of regular travel.
Actually, I think the other guy was serious about mines.
But yeah, I was only responding to the mines bit. I’m fine with the concertina wire in vast quantities being used to funnel would-be entrants to entry ports.
“Actually, I think the other guy was serious about mines.”
I get it.
Time was we’d have all chuckled knowing it wasn’t a serious suggestion, and moved on with the conversation.
Now...?
Decades ago when I was a school kid, somebody’d do something ya didn’t like, COMMONLY you’d say “Dude! I’m gonna KILL you.”
It was that way for a decade or more.
Nobody actually killed anybody.
Everyone knew it was just an expression of irritation.
And half the time the guy saying it was trying not to laugh about the situation.
Now we’re all trained like chimps to take every little thing seriously. You say, “Dude. I’m gonna KILL you” these days and the cell phones come out, and people start recording, and somebody’s dialing 9-1-1....
It’s unsustainably CRAZY; civilized society simply CANNOT continue to function under such an overwrought psychological burden.
Part of the problem was that after they emptied out and closed the asylums, the former inmates had kids and raised them poorly… leading to a lot of people actually going ahead and actually attempting to kill people after saying such things.
I had thought of the same thing, but you don’t want to make the job of Border Patrol agents even more hazardous than it already is.
Snipers! (concerned citizens who remain anonymous, shoot Coyotes and then skedaddle).
Also, populate the Rio Grande with ‘gators and water moccasins.
I am not limited to a regular route if I decide to go to New Jersey. I can hike through Sterling Forest to reach South Geenwood Lake in Jersey.
World Population Review
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/average-iq-by-state
Average IQ by State [Updated June 2023] - World …
WebThe state with the lowest IQ score turns out to be New Mexico, with the IQ score of residents coming to 95.0 on average.
YOU ! YOU ! MEANIE PEOPLE HATER !!!
? Will You Marry Me ?🤪
The NM governor is an open kill-the-white-people leftist.
Signed an order depriving lawful gunowers the right to carry their weapons to protect criminals.
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That’s the same level understanding of the Constitution as John Roberts’ has of Article II Section 1
-fJRoberts-
Concertina wire works for military because it is backed up by bullets, else you can just throw an old carpet on it and cross or better yet just wait until the Feds cut it for you.
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