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Do Dems think for themselves at all or do they just completely tow the party line at all times?
 
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The Feds taking control of the National Guard of any state is beyond stepping over the line. The amazing thing. . . . Some Dems think it the correct thing to do. Not Good.

Remember when politicians used to campaign and speak against the opposing candidate. Starting with Hilary, they now speak against the 'people' supporting the opposing candidate. Very bad Mojo, for sure.
 
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It's another TLDR post from the master of the genre. Read it, please.

There were 320,000 "encounters" at the southern border in December. That's over 10,000 per day. The number of "gotaways", or those that evaded detection while crossing, hasn't been reported yet, but it's probably near 100,000. At this rate, there will be over a million people entering the country every three months. It'll get worse as the warm weather returns.

Busing, razor wire, and bouys in the Rio Grande that the left has been calling a "political stunt" for two years have completely changed the narrative on illegal immigration. Since January 20, 2021, the flood of over seven million illegals across the Texas border (five million more in AZ and CA), and the two million "gotaways" have doubled the number of illegal immigrants in the United States, and along with the hundreds of tons of fentanyl imported during that time are destroying our country's sovereignity and safety.

Texas has passed a law, SB4, which makes entering the state illegally from another country a crime. A second arrest is a felony. Abbott has declared Texas is being invaded, and has invoked language in the Constitution, Article i, Section 10, Clause 3--the so-called Compact Clause, to assert its legality.

No State shall enter into any (Al) Treaty, Alliance (or) Confederation with any foreign Power nor witht. Const. of U. S. into any agreemt. or compact wh (any other) another State or Power; nor lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports; nor keep Troops or Ships of War in Time of Peace; nor grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; nor coin Money; nor (emit Bills of Credit), without the Consent of the Legislature of the United States, emit Bills of Credit. No State shall, without such Consent engage in any War, unless it shall be actually invaded by Enemies, or the Danger of Invasion be so imminent as not to admit of a Delay, until the Legislature of the United States can be consulted.

Thanks to Governor Abbott, the issue has been exported to NYC, Chicago, and DC, causing those liberal left mayors to claim the world is coming to an end. Now the House Republicans have Biden jacked up tight by withholding more Ukraine spending unless he does something about the border. Those mayors are right there placing pressure on him too.

On January 17, 2024, the Attorney General of Texas again sent correspondence to the DHS, once more demanding they enforce the law, and informing the federal government that the efforts by the State of Texas to prevent further illegal incursion of invaders into the state are compliant with the Compact Clause.

I have copied and pasted the text of that letter below. While it's a long read, take the time to digest it and the important issues it raises regarding the failures of the Biden administration to enforce federal law.

The State of Texas

P.O. Box 12548, Austin, Texas

www.texasattorneygeneral.gov

January 17, 2024

Jonathan E. Meyer
General Counsel
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
2707 Martin Luther King Jr Ave SE
Washington, D.C. 20528-0525

Dear Mr. Meyer:

On behalf of the State of Texas, I write in response to your demand letter of January 14, 2024, in which you complain about how the Texas Military Department (TMD) recently seized and secured Shelby Park in the City of Eagle Pass, Texas. Your letter misstates both the facts and the law in demanding that Texas surrender to President Biden’s open-border policies. Because the facts and law side with Texas, the State will continue utilizing its constitutional authority to defend her territory, and I will continue defending those lawful efforts in court. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should stop wasting scarce time and resources suing Texas, and start enforcing the immigration laws Congress already has on the books. Your letter betrays a lack of on-the-ground understanding of what is happening in Shelby Park.

While I need not correct every mistaken assertion, a few of your false claims must be debunked:

• Texas allows prompt entry into Shelby Park by any U.S. Border Patrol personnel responding to a medical emergency, and this access is not “limited to use of the boat ramp,” as you say. TMD has ordered its Guardsmen not to impede lifesaving care for aliens who illegally cross the Rio Grande. To that end, TMD has erected gates that allow for rapid admission when federal personnel communicate the existence of some medical exigency.

• Your supposed commitment “to rendering emergency assistance to individuals in need” is belied by the fact that U.S. Border Patrol withdrew from Shelby Park last year and advised the Texas Department of Public Safety that federal personnel would not be present to administer aid unless Texas called for help. Moreover, the Del Rio Sector appears to be the only place along the Rio Grande where DHS does not keep boats on the water around the clock to provide water-rescue capabilities.

• Your attempt to blame Texas for three migrant deaths on January 12, 2024 is vile and, as you now should be aware, completely inaccurate. “Three individuals drowned” that night on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, but that tragedy is your fault. Contrary to your letter, TMD did not prevent U.S. Border Patrol from entering Shelby Park to attempt a water rescue of migrants in distress.

The federal agents at the gate did not even have a boat, and they did not request entry based on any medical exigency. Instead, the federal agents told TMD’s staff sergeant that Mexican officials had already recovered dead bodies and that the situation was under control. Texas’s Guardsmen nevertheless made a diligent search, only to confirm that Mexican officials had recovered the migrants’ bodies, downriver from the Shelby Park boat ramp and on their side of the river.

• Texas has seen no evidence, and you cite none, showing that the migrants who drowned actually reached the Texas shore. And this despite TMD Guardsmen surveilling the waters of the Rio Grande near Shelby Park with spotlights, night-vision goggles, and thermal-imaging devices.

• As a federal court has already ruled, it is DHS and Biden Administration policies that are leading migrants to risk their lives, and sometimes lose them, trying to cross the Rio Grande. If you really care about migrants being put in “imminent danger to life and safety,” your agency should stop driving them into the waters of the river. Nobody drowns on a bridge.

A federal court recently rebuked the Biden Administration for creating this dangerous situation: “If [DHS] agents are going to allow migrants to enter the country, and indeed facilitate their doing so, why make them undertake the dangerous task of crossing the river? Would it not be easier, and safer, to receive them at a port of entry?” Texas v. DHS, 2023 WL 8285223, at *4 (W.D. Tex. Nov. 29, 2023). By “creat[ing] a perverse incentive for aliens to attempt to cross” the Rio Grande, the court found, you are “begetting life-threatening crises for aliens and agents both.” Id. at *14.

• Although Shelby Park does sit on “municipal land owned by the City of Eagle Pass,” as you say, TMD has now taken that land from the City for law enforcement and disaster-relief purposes in accordance with Texas Government Code § 418.017(c). It is immaterial that U.S. Customs and Border Protection entered into a “Memorandum of Agreement with Eagle Pass . . . on December 13, 2015,” because the State of Texas never approved that transaction as required by Article IV, § 10 of the Texas Constitution. Your federal agency cannot have something that was not the City’s to give. Quite apart from the Shelby Park specifics, your demand letter rests on a more fundamental misunderstanding of federal law and the role of sovereign States within our constitutional order.

This much is clear from your invocation of a federal statute that gives U.S. Border Patrol warrantless access to land within 25 miles of the border, but only “for the purpose of patrolling the border to prevent the illegal entry of aliens into the United States.” 8 U.S.C. § 1357(a)(3) (emphasis added). President Biden has ordered your agency to do the exact opposite, in keeping with his open-borders campaign promise. There is not even a pretense that you are trying to prevent the illegal entry of aliens.

As a federal court recently found, DHS’s “utter failure... to deter, prevent and halt unlawful entry into the United States” has left your agency powerless to “claim the statutory duties [it is] so obviously derelict in enforcing as excuses to puncture [Texas’s] attempts to shore up the [Biden Administration’s] failing system.” Texas v. DHS, 2023 WL.8285223, at *14 (W.D. Tex. Nov. 29,2023). Indeed, Secretary Mayorkas’s refusal to enforce federal immigration laws enacted by Congress has now put him in danger of impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives. See also U.S. CONST. Art. I, § 8, Cl. 4 (empowering Congress, not the President, “[t]o establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization”). According to your letter, “[t]he U.S. Constitution tasks the federal government with . . . securing the Nation’s borders.”

When were you planning to start? President Biden has been warned in a series of letters, one of them hand-delivered to him in El Paso, that his sustained dereliction of duty in securing the border is illegal. By instructing your agency and others to ignore federal immigration laws, he has breached the guarantee, found in Article IV, § 4 of the U.S. Constitution, that the federal government “shall protect each of [the States] against Invasion.” Texas, in turn, has been forced to invoke the powers reserved in Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which represents “an acknowledgement of the States’ sovereign interest in protecting their borders.” Arizona v. United States, 567 U.S. 387, 419 (2012) (Scalia, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part).

Although you invoke the majority opinion in that case, it never addressed these crucial constitutional guarantees because Arizona did not raise them. Having abandoned the field of immigration enforcement, in defiance of Congress’s commands, your agency is in no position to claim preemption under Arizona v. United States and the Supremacy Clause.

Rather than addressing Texas’s urgent requests for protection, President Biden has authorized DHS to send a threatening letter through its lawyers. But Texas has lawyers, too, and I will continue to stand up for this State’s constitutional powers of self-defense. Instead of running to the U.S. Department of Justice in hopes of winning an injunction, you should advise your clients at DHS to do their job and follow the law.

Sincerely,

Ken Paxton

Attorney General of Texas

cc: The Honorable Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas

Major General Thomas M. Suelzer, Adjutant General, Texas Military Department

The Honorable Merrick B. Garland, U.S. Attorney General
 
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BabyRay said:
Probably not, but that was my first thought when I saw that the governors of Florida and Oklahoma are supporting Texas’ position. Personally, I like their stance on this.
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More Governors in the last few minutes condoning this bullshit
 
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This is a statement released by Governor Abbott yesterday, January 24. It is a direct challenge to federal authority and clearly designed to force the Supreme Court to become involved.

The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the States. The Executive Branch of the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting States, including immigration laws on the books right now.

President Biden has refused to enforce those laws and has even violated them. The result is that he has smashed records for illegal immigration. Despite having been put on notice in a series of letters—one of which I delivered to him by hand—President Biden has ignored Texas’s demand that he perform his constitutional duties.

• President Biden has violated his oath to faithfully execute immigration laws enacted by Congress. Instead of prosecuting immigrants for the federal crime of illegal entry, President Biden has sent his lawyers into federal courts to sue Texas for taking action to secure the border.

• President Biden has instructed his agencies to ignore federal statutes that mandate the detention of iillegal immigrants. The effect is to illegally allow their en masse parole into the United States.

• By wasting taxpayer dollars to tear open Texas’s border security infrastructure, President Biden has enticed illegal immigrants away from the 28 legal entry points along this State’s southern border—bridges where nobody drowns—and into the dangerous waters of the Rio Grande. Under President Biden’s lawless border policies, more than 6 million illegal immigrants have crossed our southern border in just 3 years. That is more than the population of 33 different States in this country. This illegal refusal to protect the States has inflicted unprecedented harm on the People all across the United States.

James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and the other visionaries who wrote the U.S. Constitution foresaw that States should not be left to the mercy of a lawless president who does nothing to stop external threats like cartels smuggling millions of illegal immigrants across the border. That is why the Framers included both Article IV, § 4, which promises that the federal government “shall protect each [State] against invasion,” and Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which acknowledges “the States’ sovereign interest in protecting their borders.” Arizona v. United States, 567 U.S. 387, 419 (2012) (Scalia, J., dissenting). The failure of the Biden Administration to fulfill the duties imposed by Article IV, § 4 has triggered Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this State the right of self-defense.

For these reasons, I have already declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas’s constitutional authority to defend and protect itself. That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the.contrary. The Texas National Guard, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and other Texas personnel are acting on that authority, as well as state law, to secure the Texas border.

Greg Abbott

Governor of Texas
 
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BabyRay said:
Link to this? Not doubting. Just want to read up on it.
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was just scanning thru X and my eyes are now bugging. lol

if you have access to X you should be able to find it. lots of people have posted it up.

i also see where Trump about 3 hours ago asked all states that are willing to send their NG to TX to assist them.
 
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DILLIGAF said:
was just scanning thru X and my eyes are now bugging. lol

if you have access to X you should be able to find it. lots of people have posted it up.

i also see where Trump about 3 hours ago asked all states that are willing to send their NG to TX to assist them.
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Yeah, no need for the link. I’ve found plenty.
 
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DILLIGAF said:
was just scanning thru X and my eyes are now bugging. lol

if you have access to X you should be able to find it. lots of people have posted it up.

i also see where Trump about 3 hours ago asked all states that are willing to send their NG to TX to assist them.
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Well crap. Now I hope this isn't a baited trap. Would they consider a candidate's call for action as military action against the will of the current administration? I don't know If I'd trust all republican governors right now. Nobody seems to agree on anything, and yet they all did. The SC is in the bag I'm afraid, and we know the administration doesn't care about the well being of their citizens or soldiers.

How far will they push for an actual, real, insurrection? Wasn't it Obama that did things with the War Powers Act? Instead of fixing the vote, it would be possible to just not have them.
 
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Well crap. Now I hope this isn't a baited trap. Would they consider a candidate's call for action as military action against the will of the current administration? I don't know If I'd trust all republican governors right now. Nobody seems to agree on anything, and yet they all did. The SC is in the bag I'm afraid, and we know the administration doesn't care about the well being of their citizens or soldiers.

How far will they push for an actual, real, insurrection? Wasn't it Obama that did things with the War Powers Act? Instead of fixing the vote, it would be possible to just not have them.
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I get it....wish Trump would have just remained quiet on this for now but it is what it is.

One of my fears is that ALL of this is becoming a huge trap in Texas. The leftist have a tendency to just repeat what works....just different wrappers

I don't put anything past the gov at this point.
 
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monkeyswrench said:
Well crap. Now I hope this isn't a baited trap. Would they consider a candidate's call for action as military action against the will of the current administration? I don't know If I'd trust all republican governors right now. Nobody seems to agree on anything, and yet they all did. The SC is in the bag I'm afraid, and we know the administration doesn't care about the well being of their citizens or soldiers.

How far will they push for an actual, real, insurrection? Wasn't it Obama that did things with the War Powers Act? Instead of fixing the vote, it would be possible to just not have them.
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Who's calling for an insurrection other than fringe dumbasses on the internet and idiots like Matt Gaetz and MTG? Is Trump dumb enough to stick his foot in his mouth again? I hope not.

Abbott has backed Biden and the Democrats into a corner through planning and execution of a sophisticated strategy that began two months after Biden was elected. The passage of SB4 by the Texas legislature last fall has given Texas the means to arrest and deport anyone entering the state from a foreign country. The left is panicking. Biden is now and suddenly amenable to a "deal" with the Republicans. Lawsuits contesting the constitutionality of SB4 have already been filed. Soon the Supreme Court is going to explore the responsibility of the executive branch to "faithfully execute the laws of the United States."

Considering the outcome of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization and SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC (ending abortion as a constitutional right and banning affirmative action in university admissions), there is a distinct possibility the court will rule that Texas has acted legally in enacting legislation that allows the state to defend its borders against illegal immigration.

Forcing this controversy into the court system was a brilliant tactic by Greg Abbott. If the fucktards on the extreme right can control themselves, there is going to be a reckoning in the November election and an earthquake in the Supreme Court that will upend the plans of the progressive left to destroy the country.

I just hope the Freedom Caucus can keep from blowing up the deal by forcing a government shutdown. That would be the height of idiocy and hand the election to the Democrats. They're a bunch of immature knownothings that think screaming "Burn it down! Burn it down!" is how governing is supposed to work.
 
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Who's calling for an insurrection other than fringe dumbasses on the internet and idiots like Matt Gaetz and MTG? Is Trump dumb enough to stick his foot in his mouth again? I hope not.

Abbott has backed Biden and the Democrats into a corner through planning and execution of a sophisticated strategy that began two months after Biden was elected. The passage of SB4 by the Texas legislature last fall has given Texas the means to arrest and deport anyone entering the state from a foreign country. The left is panicking. Biden is now and suddenly amenable to a "deal" with the Republicans. Lawsuits contesting the constitutionality of SB4 have already been filed. Soon the Supreme Court is going to explore the responsibility of the executive branch to "faithfully execute the laws of the United States."

Considering the outcome of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization and SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC (ending abortion as a constitutional right and banning affirmative action in university admissions), there is a distinct possibility the court will rule that Texas has acted legally in enacting legislation that allows the state to defend its borders against illegal immigration.

Forcing this controversy into the court system was a brilliant tactic by Greg Abbott. If the fucktards on the extreme right can control themselves, there is going to be a reckoning in the November election and an earthquake in the Supreme Court that will upend the plans of the progressive left to destroy the country.

I just hope the Freedom Caucus can keep from blowing up the deal by forcing a government shutdown. That would be the height of idiocy and hand the election to the Democrats. They're a bunch of immature knownothings that think screaming "Burn it down! Burn it down!" is how governing is supposed to work.
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I'm not saying anyone is calling for an insurrection...I'm just worried it will be called that. Last week's performance of "White Nationalists on Ice" started me thinking of what theatrical performance we may be in for. Those that will follow either side blindly, can do a lot of harm.

If the Constitution is followed, and the courts follow justice and not politics, the Republic has a chance.
I've come to have very little faith in those in charge though.
 
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Who's calling for an insurrection other than fringe dumbasses on the internet and idiots like Matt Gaetz and MTG? Is Trump dumb enough to stick his foot in his mouth again? I hope not.

Abbott has backed Biden and the Democrats into a corner through planning and execution of a sophisticated strategy that began two months after Biden was elected. The passage of SB4 by the Texas legislature last fall has given Texas the means to arrest and deport anyone entering the state from a foreign country. The left is panicking. Biden is now and suddenly amenable to a "deal" with the Republicans. Lawsuits contesting the constitutionality of SB4 have already been filed. Soon the Supreme Court is going to explore the responsibility of the executive branch to "faithfully execute the laws of the United States."

Considering the outcome of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization and SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC (ending abortion as a constitutional right and banning affirmative action in university admissions), there is a distinct possibility the court will rule that Texas has acted legally in enacting legislation that allows the state to defend its borders against illegal immigration.

Forcing this controversy into the court system was a brilliant tactic by Greg Abbott. If the fucktards on the extreme right can control themselves, there is going to be a reckoning in the November election and an earthquake in the Supreme Court that will upend the plans of the progressive left to destroy the country.

I just hope the Freedom Caucus can keep from blowing up the deal by forcing a government shutdown. That would be the height of idiocy and hand the election to the Democrats. They're a bunch of immature knownothings that think screaming "Burn it down! Burn it down!" is how governing is supposed to work.
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They’ve already accomplished their mission, yet the imbeciles in the middle still think the game is being played. 🤣

They stole an election from you and all you want to do is move on, move on……..so they can steal another.

Absolutely zero concept of what’s TRULY going on.

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Pretty fucking simple, but don't hold your breath..........................

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The corrupt RINO faggots have past TWO spending bills with MORE Democrat support than Republicans. 🤣
 
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The DOJ is pushing the Jan 6th BS real hard right now in hopes of keeping people away from the border. They don't want a bunch of armed Americans standing behind Texas protecting our border.
 
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Pound Sand Biden. Meet you at the Red River...
 
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