Texas Governor Orders State Law Enforcement to Return Migrants to Border

[mystery-ak]

Texas Governor Orders State Law Enforcement to Return Migrants to Border

Bob Price 7 Jul 2022

Texas Governor Greg Abbott orders state police and National Guardsmen to return migrants apprehended after illegal border crossings to the border. The announcement follows news of approximately 5,000 migrants being apprehended in Texas over the Independence Day weekend.

“I have authorized the Texas National Guard and Texas Department of Public Safety to begin returning illegal immigrants to the border to stop this criminal enterprise endangering our communities,” continued Governor Abbott. “As the challenges on the border continue to increase, Texas will continue to take action to address those challenges caused by the Biden Administration.”

Gov. Abbott signed an executive order on Thursday ordering and empowering the Texas National Guard and Texas Department of Public Safety to “apprehend illegal immigrants who illegally cross the border between ports of entry and return them to the border.”

“While President Biden refuses to do his job and enforce the immigration laws enacted by Congress, the State of Texas is once again stepping up and taking unprecedented action to protect Americans and secure our southern border,” the Texas governor added. “The cartels have become emboldened and enriched by President Biden’s open border policies, smuggling in record numbers of people, weapons, and deadly drugs like fentanyl.”

Abbott’s order follows a declaration by Kinney County that the border county is being “invaded.” Kinney County Judge Tully Shahan said, “We will no longer allow the sovereignty of Texas to be invaded by those unwilling to obey our laws.”

He and officials from several other border and non-border counties called on the governor to take additional actions they believe are authorized under the U.S. and Texas constitutions.

“We are taking these steps in hopes of encouraging our Governor to acknowledge the existence of an invasion on our border with Mexico and take the necessary actions to preserve and protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Texas,” Tully’s added in his statement.

The governor added, “As noted in the executive order, the Biden Administration “has abandoned the covenant, in Article IV, § 4 of the U.S. Constitution, that ‘[t]he United States . . . shall protect each [State in this Union] against Invasion,’ and thus has forced the State of Texas to build a border wall, deploy state military forces, and enter into agreements as described in Article I, § 10 of the U.S. Constitution to secure the State of Texas and repel the illegal immigration that funds the cartels.”

Other steps taken by Governor Abbott and the State of Texas to secure the border can be found here.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2022/07/07/texas-governor-orders-state-law-enforcement-to-return-migrants-to-border/

[libertybele]

Open the door/gate or entry way, whatever you want to call it, and boot them out!

[DefiantMassRINO]

Give the illegal migrants one-way bus tickets to sanctuary cities and the hometowns of liberal Congressmen.

[Fishrrman]

Put these at the border wall (like in the NYC subway system - once you go out, you can't get back in):

[mystery-ak]

 Abbott authorizes troopers, Guard members to arrest and return migrants
by Chloe Folmar - 07/08/22 9:52 AM ET

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) issued an executive order on Thursday authorizing the state’s National Guard and Department of Public Safety to arrest migrants who cross the Texas border illegally and return them to Mexico.

“While President Biden refuses to do his job and enforce the immigration laws enacted by Congress, the State of Texas is once again stepping up and taking unprecedented action to protect Americans and secure our southern border,” Abbott said of his order.

The American Immigration Council (AIC) responded to Abbott’s order on Thursday, arguing that it ignored a previous Supreme Court ruling that states cannot carry out immigration enforcement.

“Authorizing state law enforcement to deport migrants could expose law enforcement agents to significant legal risk,” the council wrote in a statement, citing a separate executive order by Abbott that was struck down by a judge last year.

AIC Policy Director Aaron Reichlin-Melnick added: “Federal law is clear: states may not carry out immigration enforcement on their own and migrants have a right to request asylum and to be processed under our immigration laws.”

A press release announcing the executive order said that 5,000 migrants were apprehended for illegal border crossings over the July 4th weekend, “creating a border crisis that has overrun communities along the border and across Texas” and contributing to “historic levels of illegal crossings.”

more
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3549956-abbott-authorizes-troopers-guard-members-to-arrest-and-return-migrants/

[IsailedawayfromFR]

This should have been done decades ago.

[mystery-ak]

Greg Abbott’s New Executive Order On The Border Crisis Is Less Than It Appears To Be
By: John Daniel Davidson
July 08, 2022

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order Thursday seemingly designed to put pressure on the Biden administration to take the border crisis seriously and enforce federal immigration law. But the likely result of the governor’s action won’t be a reduction in illegal immigration, it will be a federal lawsuit against Texas.

Abbott’s order directs the Texas National Guard and the Texas Department of Public Safety to “apprehend illegal immigrants who illegally cross the border between ports of entry and return them to the border.” What does this mean? It does not mean that Texas law enforcement will be expelling illegal immigrants to Mexico, as some Texas counties have called on Abbott to authorize.

In practice, it means that Texas state troopers and National Guardsman, whom Abbott has already deployed to the border as part of Operation Lone Star, will now be authorized to arrest illegal immigrants near the border and transport them directly to the nearest port of entry. What will happen once they get there remains to be seen.

Ports of entry are run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and under normal circumstances, illegal immigrants arrested by state or local law enforcement would be picked up by CBP officers or Border Patrol agents and transported to a CBP processing facility. That is, state and local law enforcement don’t usually transport illegal immigrants anywhere, they simply assist Border Patrol and CBP because it is the federal government’s job to enforce federal immigration law, not the states’.

more
https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/08/greg-abbotts-new-executive-order-on-the-border-crisis-is-less-than-it-appears-to-be/

[Bigun]

Greg Abbott’s New Executive Order On The Border Crisis Is Less Than It Appears To Be

  Absolutely!

[IsailedawayfromFR]

But the likely result of the governor’s action won’t be a reduction in illegal immigration, it will be a federal lawsuit against Texas.

Don't know how this could possibly result in not reducing illegal immigration.

And as far a lawsuit against Texas, let it come.  Nullification is ready.