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Abbott deploys Texas military to Rio Grande Valley to assist Trump administration
The Center square ^ | 1/17/25 | By Bethany Blankley

Posted on 01/27/2025 12:10:13 PM PST by CFW

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott surged additional Texas military resources to the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) to assist President Donald Trump with his border security efforts.

Abbott did so as removal operations are already underway in Trump’s first week in office after he issued a series of executive orders to secure the border, including sending 1,500 troops to Texas and California, The Center Square reported.

Abbott directed the Texas Military Department to deploy the Texas Tactical Border Force to the RGV to coordinate efforts with U.S. Border Patrol agents.

More than 400 troops are departing from military bases in Fort Worth and Houston Monday morning, as well as C-130s and Chinook helicopters, to join thousands of Texas National Guard soldiers already stationed at the Texas-Mexico border.

“Texas has a partner in the White House we can work with to secure the Texas-Mexico border," Abbott said. “For the past four years, Texas held the line against the Biden Administration’s border crisis and their refusal to protect Americans. Finally, we have a federal government working to end this crisis. I thank President Donald Trump for his decisive leadership on the southern border and look forward to working with him and his Administration to secure the border and make America safe again.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thecentersquare.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: border; military; texas; trump
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Good for Governor Abbott!

Closing the border and starting the deportation of the easily identifiable and easy to locate illegal alien criminals will do a lot to begin solving many of our nation's problems. Crime will begin to decrease in the areas the gang members control. Also, as more are arrested and deported then the more others will voluntarily return to Mexico or other countries. This will free up housing which will then be available for American citizens. And of course, if any of these illegal aliens were working on hospitality or construction jobs, then those jobs will eventually become available for Americans.

Trump and Homan have a long ways to go, but it is great to seem them get started right out of the gate.

1 posted on 01/27/2025 12:10:13 PM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

And in other good news,

“ICE launches ‘targeted operations’ in metro Atlanta”

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/ice-launches-targeted-operations-metro-atlanta/NUFOS3GXGFAEHHZHKX3LTSEX44/


2 posted on 01/27/2025 12:11:00 PM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

I am suspecting it is much worse than we thought.


3 posted on 01/27/2025 12:15:16 PM PST by NeverTyranny
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To: CFW; texas booster

MORE Texas WINNING ping!


4 posted on 01/27/2025 12:20:43 PM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: CFW; NeverTyranny

Drug Enforcement Agency, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives collaborate with ICE on “enhanced targeted operations”

ARTICLES

1. Multi-agency operation targeted immigrants in Austin and San Antonio
By Pooja Salhotra
Jan. 26, 2025
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/26/texas-immigration-deportation-ice-austin-san-antonio/

2. Marines descend on the border
by Salvador Rivera
Jan. 24, 2025
https://www.borderreport.com/regions/california/marines-descend-on-the-border/

3. BORDER REPORT

Topics:
1- LIVE CAMERAS
https://www.borderreport.com/live-cameras/

2- Top National Headlines
https://www.borderreport.com/regions/national/

3- HOT TOPICS
https://www.borderreport.com/hot-topics/


5 posted on 01/27/2025 12:20:44 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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To: CFW

In or cafeteria at work today -Texas. Hospital- the mood I buzzing. People are relaxed and chatty. Like old times


6 posted on 01/27/2025 12:21:59 PM PST by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: NeverTyranny

Agree. Not only regarding how many, but exactly who “they” are.


7 posted on 01/27/2025 12:24:38 PM PST by madison10
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To: CFW

Reminds me of the “Landman” episode where Billy Bob Thornton got his boss to ask the Texas Governor to allow the National Guard to conduct military training, using live explosives on undeveloped property owned by the gas company, in order to keep the cartels at bay.


8 posted on 01/27/2025 12:28:31 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Thanks. Appreciate it.


9 posted on 01/27/2025 12:32:16 PM PST by NeverTyranny
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To: CFW

My believe is that the US has not had operational control of the border since the Biden regime took over. Now, we need to not only regain operational control, we must exert total and absolute control.


10 posted on 01/27/2025 12:38:56 PM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: CFW

I the way “Texas Military” sounds. I can’t imagine the ranks are filled with any girlie men.


11 posted on 01/27/2025 12:54:13 PM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: mass55th

Reminds me of the “Landman” episode where Billy Bob Thornton got his boss to ask the Texas Governor to allow the National Guard to conduct military training...


That didn’t really work out particularly well Tommy in episode 10, but it sure was satisfying to watch.


12 posted on 01/27/2025 1:14:24 PM PST by NJRadioGuy (Which part of "shall not be infringed" confuses you?)
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To: CFW

As effective as occasionally perforating a few crossers and/or their coyotes would be, it would foul the river for Texas rancher’s livestock downstream.


13 posted on 01/27/2025 1:22:26 PM PST by ByteMercenary (Liberalism is a mental disorder.)
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"That didn’t really work out particularly well Tommy in episode 10, but it sure was satisfying to watch"

In the end, despite him being tortured, it was the bigger cartel boss that wiped out the underlings doing the torturing, and saved Tommy's ass.

That kind of behavior is called policing your own. When I first began working in uniform in NY State's prison system at Auburn prison (maximum security), older officers told me that in order to keep control of your company galleries, you needed to pick the biggest, baddest black man as "water man" on the gallery. He'd make sure to keep the knucklehead inmates in line, because the last thing convicts wanted was to have the "police" breathing down their necks, and tipping the gallery over doing searches. These "water men" did what was necessary to police the inmates on their galleries to keep peace between them and staff.

14 posted on 01/27/2025 1:39:41 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

Just watched the first episode of the series. Billy Bob is excellent as usual. I do wonder how a former chubby fella got so damned skinny.


15 posted on 01/27/2025 1:47:08 PM PST by katana
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To: katana

He’s been through some different evolutions during his career. I still find it hard to believe he was married to Angelina Jolie, and that they each wore a vial of the other’s blood around their neck. Kooky!!


16 posted on 01/27/2025 1:49:23 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: CFW

Might I suggest the judicious use of Napalm?


17 posted on 01/27/2025 1:50:51 PM PST by Nachoman (Proudly oppressing people of color since 1957.)
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Dated article... But the Rio Grande hasn’t been blocked even
with the Barries that have been installed.
December 24, 2023

In just five days last week, Border Patrol processed nearly 50,000 migrants who entered the U.S. illegally, with daily apprehensions surpassing 10,000 thrice, up from the 6,400 average last month, according to federal data obtained by CBS News. Roughly 1,500 additional migrants are being processed each day at official border crossings under a Biden program powered by a phone app.

The record level of unauthorized crossings has strained federal and local resources in communities across the U.S. — from small towns like Eagle Pass, Jacumba Hot Springs, California, and Lukeville, Arizona — to large cities, such as Denver, Chicago and New York. It has also upended the politics of immigration, putting Democrats on the defensive ahead of the 2024 election.

Invasion hasn’t stopped since Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492.
* The new comers went to Africa and brought in their natives to do the Grunt work.
* A civil war was fought in 1860s to free them from slavery
* Now others are crossing in droves to get the blessings.
* Outer space may well be the next location to be invaded. Ain’t life grand?


18 posted on 01/27/2025 1:56:21 PM PST by deport
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To: CFW

Now do Colony Ridge


19 posted on 01/27/2025 3:09:19 PM PST by slumber1 (Darby delenda est)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

There may be some Females with excellence in the use of Firearms in there thou.


20 posted on 01/27/2025 3:44:57 PM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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