The Biden administration would like to make Texas the sanctuary state
This:
The Biden administration is considering forcing migrants who cross into the United States illegally to remain in Texas while they wait out their asylum screening.
Administration officials cite the proposed plan as a way to curb the flow of illegal immigrants at the southern border, The Los Angeles Times reported, citing three U.S. officials not authorized to discuss the matter.
The plan would force migrants to remain in Texas, or possibly other border states by tracking their location through GPS monitoring devices, such as ankle bracelets, the officials told the Times.
The Democrats must be alarmed by the reaction in places like New York to the recent influx there of illegal arrivals. They can’t afford to alienate (pun intended) their base. But Texas? No need to worry about alienating Texans; it’s already been done.
This is the sort of thing that might induce some good people in Texas to set up their own “invasion prevention devices” along the border with Mexico.
Well they certainly can’t have the undocumented Democrat voters remain in Mexico while their asylum or immigration applications are being ajudicated. Nor can they allow the construction or deployment of physical means to control the movement of undocumented Democrat voters into the United States of Democrat Voters.
Texas must keep them all, although Florida may also be a secondary place for them?
don’t they already have phones and apps and the like, whats good for the goose,
The idiots must be desperate. Can’t imagine how this can work.
The POTUS does not have the authority to command Texas to hold alien invaders. His authority is only to enforce the law of the land. He is not enforcing that law. (He should be impeached for that alone.) He cannot force a state to do something that is against the federal law or a state law. It’s called Federalism.
The Biden admin claims that: 1. All of these aliens are actually “refugees.”
2. They cannot enforce the border until a “comprehensive” immigration law is passed. “Comprehensive” is Democrat speak for a law with amnesty for all illegals who are already here. Which is a signal for many more millions to come on in.
This is a just one of many despicable games they’re playing. Cloward-Piven? Probably.
If this plan is real it’s hilarious. I’ve got issues with Gov. Abbott but he’s got this one right and Constitutionally backed.
Though I do wonder if we’ll see AOC crying outside of these new Biden camps. She’s
Smart!
New York has a law requiring the city to provide housing for anyone without it. Naturally people without means of support go where the taxpayers will take care of them. This will last until NYC goes completely broke or they stop doing it.
I don’t understand how the DOJ can claim to have jurisdiction over the Texas floating barrier in the Rio Grande.
“The POTUS does not have the authority to command Texas to hold alien invaders.” J.J.
“I don’t understand how the DOJ can claim to have jurisdiction over the Texas floating barrier in the Rio Grande.” Kate
Upon what rational basis might one imagine that Biden or the DOJ now give consideration of authority and jurisdiction any thought whatsoever?
Newsflash! The rule of law is now whatever they say it is… on that particular day. For any that still doubt it, I refer you to the fate of the Jan. 6th protestors.
Former AZ governor (R), Doug Ducey was trying to build a barrier along the Mexican border with empty containers, of which there is no shortage. In 2022, him being term limited, AZ “elected” the Secretary of State, who while SoS was also a candidate for Governor. Unexpectedly, the voting machines in Republican districts all malfunctioned on Election Day. She (Hobbs) is now dismantling the barrier wall.
The “Governor” has rewarded her benefactor, Soros, by also trying to stop the school voucher program. The Teachers’ Union is also a big supporter. The two Republicans running for Senate and Gov were stiffed by Mitch McConnell and the RNC. This is how the Uniparty works. Both were endorsed by Trump, of course.
Blake Masters, the GOP Senate candidate co-wrote Peter Thiel’s book “Zero to One.” So we got an idiot as Senator and a communist as Governor, thanks to the Turtle.
Keeping in mind these are the same people suing SpaceX for not hiring refugees; how do they think detaining these people in Texas will work? You can’t make the State of Texas detain them, because the reason for detainment is violation of federal law. So how is the federal government planning to enforce the law beyond enforcing the federal border? Hire more border patrol agents? Build more federal detainment facilities in Texas?
I don’t understand how the DOJ can claim to have jurisdiction over the Texas floating barrier in the Rio Grande.
Neither does the 5th Circuit.
@John Guilfoyle… nah man, the tactic would be to create an underground railroad to help these poor refugees find the freedom they desire in blue states.
Ummm…Leland…Have you ever lived in Texas?
That Federal mandate comes down & half the people I know would move their “deer/duck blinds” down to the river…and well…the floating barricade would be the least of the swimmers’ worries.
This is such a weird state of affairs. It reminds me of the crazy maneuverings before the Civil War.
(Something one might worry about.)
Unexpectedly, the voting machines in Republican districts all malfunctioned on Election Day.
And your evidence is recorded where? We’d like to have a look at it.
The Texas Rio Grande buoys can stay for the time being: “The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit temporarily halted an order to force Texas to remove the Rio Grande buoys.”
As one commenter noted, “the Proud Buoys live !!”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/09/border-crisis-fifth-circuit-issues-temporarily-stay-for-the-texas-rio-grande-buoys/
I wasn’t that impressed with the idea of sending the “migrants” to NYC Boston Chicago Martha’s Vineyard et cetera, but now it’s looking like sheer genius.
“I don’t understand how the DOJ can claim to have jurisdiction over the Texas floating barrier in the Rio Grande.”
The Rio Grande in TX is an international boundary and thus subject to the jurisdiction of the federal government. I don’t like it any more than you, but the courts will most certainly rule that the river barriers must go.
What a determined border state governor must do is to purchase or use eminent domain to acquire all lands immediately adjacent to the international border; something like 40 yards from the border. Set aside that land for the Border Patrol so that it can interdict if they choose.
Then build a fence that belongs to the state that runs along the new ‘state’ border, 40 yards away from the international border, along which state laws can apply against ‘trespassing’ or some similar offense that can be passed by the state legislature.
I believe this course of action can survive judicial scrutiny, allowing governors to interdict and mitigate the alien invasion.
The malfunctions obviously occurred. Elections officials claim it was all accidental. Conservative Arizonans have every reason to believe they’ve been had.
Your country is rapidly becoming a regime, and openly so.
Paolo, they’re not even hiding it any more.
The downside of the American Civil War was that the states have no realistic way of defying a tyrannical federal govt., such as threatening – peacefully – to leave the union.
The federal govt can always find a (twisted) “legal” means to impose their will upon the states and/or punish a state by withholding federal funds or by using other financial chicanery to compel states to yield to the federal govt.
If these methods do not work, the federal govt. can send in the military.
Like all tyrannies, there is no shortage of legal or financial “willing executioners,” to follow orders and do the actual dirty work.
Nowhere in the US Constitution does it state that member states – all which joined the union voluntarily – are compelled to stay within the union; even if the federal govt becomes a rogue govt., a dictatorship.
nsufficiently Sensitive on September 8, 2023 at 11:16 pm said:
Unexpectedly, the voting machines in Republican districts all malfunctioned on Election Day.
And your evidence is recorded where? We’d like to have a look at it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/vote-machine-glitch-roils-arizonas-maricopa-county-fuels-false-stateme-rcna56261
Technicians were dispatched to polling sites across Arizona’s largest county on Election Day to fix dozens of malfunctioning vote tabulation machines, a widespread issue that frustrated voters and led some GOP politicians and pundits to spread misleading or false information.
Election officials stressed that the machines were not inaccurately reading ballots, but rather, not accepting them at all.
Because Arizona has many minor races on one ballot, the ballots are printed as the voter tries to vote. The printers worked perfectly on the day before election day. On election day thousands of voters had to wait hours because the prinyters malfunctioned and most were in GOP majority districts. The “Misleading or false information” is editorial comment by NBC.
Many voters gave up.
The Rio Grande in TX is an international boundary
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The boundary runs through the Rio Grande.
Shameless. I only watched a few minutes of the cable show “Shameless,” but it does seem to describe the Biden administration and the surrounding media circus: an old conman with his brood of young grifters, each learning the trade and practicing their own grifts. That the star’s real life wife, Felicity Huffman, got caught in the admissions scandal ads piquancy to the comparison.
The plan all along must have been for the illegals to make the red states blue. But there were too many migrants. They didn’t want to stay in Texas or Arizona or be shipped to Kansas or the Dakotas. Many wanted to go to New York or Los Angeles, or Chicago. Those who went or were sent to blue states are making headaches for mayors and governors, so … enter Plan B.
In the new book on Biden, Franklin Foer relates that Biden opposed the asylum and refugee policy and had to be pressured to accept it (or so I’ve heard from sources familiar with the book). Nonsense. Biden was on board with the policy from the beginning. He even said in the debates that he wanted migrants to “surge to the border,” because ‘that’s who we are.’ He might have blindly followed his staffers’ recommendations, but he wasn’t forced or pressured into accepting them.
I suppose there are moments when Biden sees footage from the border, wonders how things came to this, and rages at his underlings, Are those special moments of clarity for Biden, when he suddenly understands what’s happening, or just part of his general mind fog and his having forgotten his own responsibility for what’s going on?
It’s said that Henry James wrote novels like a psychologist and his brother wrote psychology like a novelists. I don’t know if Jonathan Safran Foer writes novels like a biographer, but apparently his brother Franklin writes non-fiction with a lot of fiction in it.
Abraxas:
There’s a third brother, too. Sounds like an interesting guy and also a writer. Quite a family.
Paolo Pagliaro:
Unfortunately, true. I think the transition has already been accomplished.
Recent meme: Biden wants to build his own border wall. Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona are going to be on the other side of the wall with Mexico.
Does this mean if they wander off across state lines the feds will deport them?