The new guidance was issued just one day after he ordered Texas National Guard troops to assist local law enforcement with making arrests related to the “disaster” on the southern border.
Abbott cited Biden’s “refusal to enforce” Title 42 or any other US immigration law as the reasoning behind signing the order. He also explained how that dereliction of duty has led to predictable results which could be “catastrophic.”
“Biden’s failure to enforce the Title 42 order, combined with his refusal to enforce the immigration laws enacted by Congress, is having a predictable and potentially catastrophic effect on public health in Texas. Biden has thwarted the Title 42 order’s effect by admitting into the United States and the State of Texas, migrants who are testing positive for COVID-19.”
It also directs Texas DPS officers to stop any vehicle suspected of transporting illegal border crossers, giving them the authority to send the migrants back to the border if necessary.
1. “No person, other than a federal, state, or local law-enforcement official, shall provide ground transportation to a group of migrants who have been detained by CBP for crossing the border illegally or who would have been subject to expulsion under the Title 42 order.
2. The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is directed to stop any vehicle upon reasonable suspicion of a violation of paragraph 1, and to reroute such a vehicle back to its point of origin or a port of entry if a violation is confirmed.
3. DPS is authorized to impound a vehicle that is being used to transport migrants in violation of paragraph I, or that refuses to be rerouted in violation of paragraph 2.”
Sounds like its time for a showdown.
Abbott has a golden opportunity to show the nation the limit of federal power as in the 10th Amendment.
Yes, it will be a showdown. I of course hope Abbot prevails, but I'm looking back when AZ stood their ground surrounding illegal immigration and Bammy sued them and won. Hopefully this will have a different outcome.Maybe its time for a showdown with the courts as well. Right is right - if the courts are corrupt they should be disregarded as well. The Constitution says what it says.
The left wins because they stick together and people take to the streets in protests. The rights loses because they don't stick together and they don't come together for their voices to be heard. Just sayin'
The Constitution should always prevail!!
Sounds like its time for a showdown.
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
The feds have zero authority to stop state officials to control threats to the public health within the state of Texas.
There really is no question about it.