Posted on 02/25/2024 4:07:37 PM PST by Twotone
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has reasserted the state's "right to defend from invasion" and condemned the Biden administration's failed border policies.
The governor's update on Operation Lone Star, which he launched in 2021 to try to secure the Texas-Mexico border, said Texan authorities have detained 501,300 illegal immigrants under the scheme and seized 467 million "lethal doses" of fentanyl.
Tensions between Texan authorities and the Biden administration surged after the Supreme Court ruled on January 22 that federal agents can remove razor-wire placed across the Texas-Mexico border on Abbott's orders by the state's National Guard. In response, Abbott invoked what he said was Texas's "constitutional authority to defend and protect itself." This move was supported by 25 other Republican governors and 2024 GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.
Posting on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday, Abbott said: "Under the U.S. Constitution, states have the right to defend from invasion. The cartels smuggling people & deadly fentanyl pose a danger to Texas & the U.S.
"Texas will continue to do the job Biden has failed to do—secure our southern border." Abbott accompanied this with a link to a press release published by his office, setting out what they claimed to have achieved under Operation Lone Star. Newsweek has reached out to the White House press office for comment by email.
The document says that, since the "multi-agency effort" began, Texan law enforcement has apprehended 501,300 illegal migrants and made more than 39,800 criminal arrests, leading to 35,800 felony charges. It adds that "467 million lethal doses of fentanyl" had been seized by the authorities.
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“We’ll probably see FJB send in the entire U.S. Marshals Service to arrest everyone involved in this “rebellion”....including Abbott.
NOTHING would be a surprise when it comes to this vile SOB.”
We’ll probably see Abbot send in the Texas Rangers to arrest everyone involved in the border invasion, including Biden.
I’m saying the rest was out of control immigration.
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