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Title: Attorney General sues as Abbott's ban on migrant transports leaves hundreds stranded in Texas
Post by: Elderberry on July 31, 2021, 08:11:33 pm
Houston Chronicle by Jeremy Blackman, Jasper Scherer 7/31/2021

For weeks, the Stripes gas station on Veterans Boulevard in Del Rio has doubled as a release valve for the country’s straining immigration pipeline. Migrants awaiting court hearings are dropped off by border patrol, often by the dozens each day, and quickly swept onto buses out of town.

On Wednesday, Gov. Greg Abbott effectively shut it down, ordering state troopers to begin pulling over anyone transporting migrants who may be at risk of spreading COVID-19. Officials in Del Rio said it has left hundreds of people stranded with nowhere to go, and that the number will likely grow.

“If they’re not able to be transported out of here, to catch a bus to go on to wherever their destination is, then they end up being stuck in our communities, and that creates a problem for us,” said Val Verde County Commissioner Beau Nettleton, a Republican who has generally welcomed the governor’s border interventions.

In his order, Abbott blamed the Biden administration for failing to turn away more people at the border and said the action would prevent “busloads of migrants” from moving about the state, “an unknown number of whom are infected with COVID-l9.”

Officials in some border counties have complained recently about the sheer number of migrants being released into shelters, citing resurging COVID infections of the highly contagious delta variant. Last week, the city of Laredo sued the Biden administration over the influx.

More: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Attorney-General-sues-as-Abbott-s-ban-on-16353403.php (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Attorney-General-sues-as-Abbott-s-ban-on-16353403.php)
Title: Re: Attorney General sues as Abbott's ban on migrant transports leaves hundreds stranded in Texas
Post by: IsailedawayfromFR on August 01, 2021, 02:03:23 am
This is a Biden problem, and Texas wants nothing to do with it.

Maybe we just need to bus them to DC instead?
Title: Re: Attorney General sues as Abbott's ban on migrant transports leaves hundreds stranded in Texas
Post by: libertybele on August 01, 2021, 02:19:01 am
This is a Biden problem, and Texas wants nothing to do with it.

Maybe we just need to bus them to DC instead?

They need to be sent back.  They are here ILLEGALLY!!!
Title: Re: Attorney General sues as Abbott's ban on migrant transports leaves hundreds stranded in Texas
Post by: Elderberry on August 01, 2021, 02:28:09 am
They need to be sent back.  They are here ILLEGALLY!!!

No. They need to be arrested, convicted and put on "Chain Gangs" used to build the Border Fence.
Title: Re: Attorney General sues as Abbott's ban on migrant transports leaves hundreds stranded in Texas
Post by: libertybele on August 01, 2021, 02:35:09 am
No. They need to be arrested, convicted and put on "Chain Gangs" used to build the Border Fence.

Good thinking. Once that news got back about what happens to those who were apprehended crossing illegally I think you'd see a huge reduction in illegal immigration.
Title: Re: Attorney General sues as Abbott's ban on migrant transports leaves hundreds stranded in Texas
Post by: IsailedawayfromFR on August 01, 2021, 02:54:49 pm
Good thinking. Once that news got back about what happens to those who were apprehended crossing illegally I think you'd see a huge reduction in illegal immigration.
Only into Texas.

California will absorb as many as it can as it goes for more Dem votes
Title: Re: Attorney General sues as Abbott's ban on migrant transports leaves hundreds stranded in Texas
Post by: Kamaji on August 01, 2021, 04:58:10 pm
No. They need to be arrested, convicted and put on "Chain Gangs" used to build the Border Fence.

Good idea!
Title: Re: Attorney General sues as Abbott's ban on migrant transports leaves hundreds stranded in Texas
Post by: AARguy on August 02, 2021, 03:15:20 am
Massachusetts. New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Mew York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey all need some unskilled, low wage workers that don't speak English and have COVID. Get them there NOW!
Title: Re: Attorney General sues as Abbott's ban on migrant transports leaves hundreds stranded in Texas
Post by: Hoodat on August 02, 2021, 03:27:55 am

8 U.S. Code § 1324 - Bringing in and harboring certain aliens

(a)Criminal penalties
(1)
(A)Any person who—

(i)knowing that a person is an alien, brings to or attempts to bring to the United States in any manner whatsoever such person at a place other than a designated port of entry or place other than as designated by the Commissioner, regardless of whether such alien has received prior official authorization to come to, enter, or reside in the United States and regardless of any future official action which may be taken with respect to such alien;

(ii)knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, transports, or moves or attempts to transport or move such alien within the United States by means of transportation or otherwise, in furtherance of such violation of law;

(iii)knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation;

(iv)encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law; or

(v)
(I)engages in any conspiracy to commit any of the preceding acts, or

(II)aids or abets the commission of any of the preceding acts,

shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B).
(B)A person who violates subparagraph (A) shall, for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs—

(i)in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i) or (v)(I) or in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), or (iv) in which the offense was done for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both;

(ii)in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), (iv), or (v)(II), be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both;  .  .  .

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1324



Federal law is on Abbott's side.
Title: Re: Attorney General sues as Abbott's ban on migrant transports leaves hundreds stranded in Texas
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 02, 2021, 05:23:40 am
@Hoodat

You could indict half the government on these:
Quote
(iv)encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law; or

(v)
(I)engages in any conspiracy to commit any of the preceding acts, or

(II)aids or abets the commission of any of the preceding acts,
Title: Re: Attorney General sues as Abbott's ban on migrant transports leaves hundreds stranded in Texas
Post by: sneakypete on August 02, 2021, 07:27:12 pm
This is a Biden problem, and Texas wants nothing to do with it.

Maybe we just need to bus them to DC instead?

@IsailedawayfromFR

How about bus them back to the border and make them cross it heading south?