What’s going on at the border in Texas?
Why is Biden – or the Biden administration – making such a stink about Texas’ barbed wire on the border? It would seem to me that now, not too long before a presidential election, wouldn’t be the ideal time for the administration to draw more attention to its lax attitude towards illegal arrivals into the US. After all, it’s not a very popular policy.
Of course, those who believe that the Democrats are going to be heavily into fraud this election cycle and therefore have nothing to fear would also assume that the administration simply don’t care how it looks to the voters. But even so, surely there’s a limit to how much election fraud is possible, and there must be a point beyond which angering the electorate might matter in the outcome?
Andrew C. McCarthy has this to say about the Texas standoff [emphasis mine]:
This dispute will play out politically more than legally. The “Civil War” talk is hyperbole, driven by Democrats who grasp that Biden’s position is not politically sustainable, especially with Election Day just months away. This is why Biden is desperate to cut a deal with moderate Senate Republicans. When that falls apart — not because of Donald Trump’s machinations but because it is a terrible deal for the country — Biden will either have to cave (i.e., engage in actual border enforcement and refrain from interfering in state border enforcement) or seek election as the president who is suing the beleaguered people of Texas on behalf of illegal aliens — having ushered into the country more than 6 million of them (more than the population of 33 states).
If we’re going to talk about who is defying the law, that’s easy — it’s Biden, not Texas. When it is said that the states must comply with federal law, that means statutory law, not the whims of the executive branch. Biden’s policy is not federal law. Federal law, which the president refuses to faithfully execute, calls for detention. As I have explained before, Biden’s actions are in gross violation of the law.
Nor is Texas, by insisting on keeping the barrier, defying the SCOTUS ruling. The Court only declined to stop the feds from removing the wire. That doesn’t mean that Texas can’t stop the feds from removing the wire, and it doesn’t mean that Texas can’t replace the wire if the feds manage to remove it.
After the SCOTUS ruling, the Biden administration issued some demands:
The DHS maintained in its letter that it had the upper ground in terms of legal ground that allowed its personnel to be on city land along the border. It cited the U.S. Code, in which the department acquired permanent real estate interests in and around Eagle Pass in 2008 to build border wall barriers in the vicinity.
“Because the Department owns property rights to the areas depicted on the attached map, we demand that you immediately remove any and all obstructions on it,” Meyer said. …
The Biden administration had threatened Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) with legal action on Jan. 14 if Texas did not relinquish control of land, but has not followed up with a lawsuit.
As far as I can tell, that’s where it stands at the moment.
At some point, Biden is going to decide that he can’t let TX get away with this, and he’ll send federal troops to the border. What happens if there’s a standoff?
Most obviously, some poorly trained DEI recruit will fire his/her weapon, resulting in injuries, fatalities, or both. Then, the Biden Admin has a real PR problem on its hands, to say the least. What then? Does Biden withdraw the troops to prevent further bloodshed? Or do they find a way to play the race card?
Or does Biden take the sneaky route, e.g. the DOD makes a deal with a Mexican drug cartel to pick off a few Guardsmen, hoping that it will provoke a public outcry demanding that the Guard be taken off the border? Problem solved! Unless and until some DOD employee with knowledge of the scheme has a guilty conscience and blows the whistle, and then shortly thereafter “kills himself.”
I put nothing past these people.
This will show if Texas remembers it’s roots
(See Leander McNelly on the Rio Grande) or not.
When Andrew McCarthy isn’t misguidedly wandering in cloud-cuckoo Trump land, he’s right on, and in this case he’s nailed it.
It’s almost incredible that Joe Biden can’t see how buffoonish he’s acting in trying to distort the Executive Branch to facilitate this massive, illegal, hyper-partisan invasion of the US by brigades of anonymous ruffians and opportunists, who’ll bloat the welfare rolls at taxpayer expense as six million illegal votes are purchased by Democrats.
we have seen what they have done in other countries against anti-globalists, see salvini and le pen, I included some of the hotter takes from the likes of skippy o’rourke and joyless reid, he the son of a chicago land baron, she the daughter of congolese immigrations, who is more clueless, is an open questions as she is sharpton’s representative of madness at MSNBC, what Tucker has called Hutu TV I would conclude more evil
From here:
This will eventually resolve itself in the next election… hopefully allowing a return to genuinely enforcing the law and the construction of definitive border defences.
CW2 is more likely over the issue of reConquista-ing the illegals already accounted for and catching and removing those not-yet-accounted for. Throwing those buggers back out will prove the straw and camel’s back scenario.
that seems like a blinkered interpretation of the statue, the border patrol is in dereliction of the plain reading of immigration law,
It’s almost incredible that Joe Biden can’t see how buffoonish he’s acting in trying to distort the Executive Branch to facilitate this massive, illegal, hyper-partisan invasion of the US….
Once again, Biden is not making any decisions. I’m convinced that it’s Obama and his gang. Biden’s line about “anyone taking the feds on has to worry about F-15s” is him just repeating what he’s heard from the actual cartel running the country. I guess they’re counting on enough woke AF and Navy pilots to be on their side.
Reporting from Austin:
Not much here on the ground with the invasion. Nor in San Antonio or Corpus Christi the last few trips I’ve been there. I assume the illegals that DPS picks up get bussed away pretty quickly, they don’t seem to want to stay in Texas once they get to Texas.
The big problem here is with the homeless camps taking over public spaces, which the Benevolent City Council feels no need to enforce elected law to deal with. Not much different than the Biden folks ignoring the need to enforce the immigration laws, just a smaller scale.
I’d also remind Biden that the Texas Air National Guard has a bunch of F-16’s and very capable pilots who likely won’t want to be federalized.
Why can’t the republicans in Congress file a motion with the SCOTUS asserting that Biden is violating federal laws and seek to prevent him from doing so?
I just do not understand how Biden is allowed to violate the law and nobody does anything about this.
I cannot add to the above comments, we’ll shall see.
I noticed that New Mexico, Arizona, and California do NOT support Texas. I say Texas should build a border wall on up between it and New Mexico. See how New Mexico likes the influx of illegals.
It’s funny, though. I read about Arizonans who are angry at the influx, but I see nothing about New Mexico. I know one reason New Mexico is so blue it’s that the Indians vote Democrat heavily. But surely people living along the southern board in New Mexico are suffering as much as Arizonans on the border and Texas on the border
A possible drug cartel ferry landed on the beach in my parent’s former neighbourhood in La Jolla, California.
Approximately two dozen illegal aliens went ashore and then scattered among the houses, as caught on video by a bystander.
The two and-a-half minute video shows at least two women and one smaller child among them.
Video and further details posted here:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/video-residents-stunned-illegal-immigrants-make-landfall-us/
I’ve noticed the same thing about New Mexico,
like I said, we’ll see. Texas is my home State.
McCarthy is often correct on the law but nearly always wrong on the politics.
well Gauletier Grisham, the one who sought draconian penalties on gun owners runs that fiefdom, there was a decent governor but she was turfed out about two cycles ago, if memory serves the 2000 election was determined by a coin toss in that neck of the woods,
“I just do not understand how Biden is allowed to violate the law and nobody does anything about this.”
Who’s going to enforce it?
The March of Folly
Fool or knave on a grand cosmic scale:
Biden Admin Spent Whopping $20 Billion On Refugee Resettlement In Just Two Years
A billion here, a billion there…
@ Sennacherib > “Texas is my home State.”
When traveling, and people ask where I am from, I tell them that I’m from Texas, I just live in Colorado.
@ physicsguy > “I guess they’re counting on enough woke AF and Navy pilots to be on their side.”
Like this dude? Not a pilot, but still…
https://notthebee.com/article/so-this-is-what-happens-when-you-leave-this-inside-one-of-these
“Air Force engineer ruins F-35 after leaving flashlight in engine”
Not the Bee had a Special Texas Meme Edition.
https://notthebee.com/article/the-civil-war-20-memes-are-here-if-you-need-a-laugh-cry-break-from-your-friday
I draw your attention to the warning from Jack Posobiec in this tweet.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1750882622052393423
Looking at the map of the 25 states in support of the Constitution I couldn’t help but wonder what’s up with Kansas, Kentucky and North Carolina… Predictably, it turns out that all three of those States have democrat Governors. In all three states, the legislature is controlled by the Republicans.
I guess we’ll just have to see if President Fentanyl-Tranq’s remark/threat/joke about using the USAF against those white-supremacist, secessionist, insurrectionist, democracy-killer, Trumpist, AR-15 lovers was merely jolly Bidenesquerie…
…or not.
Not to challenge McCarthy on a legal issue, but it still seems to come down to definitions and the Executive branch has tremendous leeway here. What is “detention?” We already have different forms of detention with parolees and those awaiting trial; detention in a cell, house arrest, wearing an ankle bracelet, out on bail, halfway houses, released on one’s own recognizance…
Why can’t Biden say administration policy is “foreigners seeking asylum who pose no known threat are legally detained and can freely move about the country as long as they report changes of address to such and such an agency within so and so many hours/days/weeks/months…?”
AZ has had a tremendous increase in population over a short period of time, almost all of it concentrated in the Phoenix metro area.
AZ politics has been of the good ol’ boy, county courthouse variety, that is, mediocre but mostly adequate, with a constant, but low-level corruption invisible to the average voter. It hasn’t changed much.
The AZ Rep party is controlled by the McCain go-along-to-get along faction and these folks are desperately afraid of any change, which they view, rightly, to endanger their place at the trough.
Add in Dem ballot collection shenanigans and polling place “errors” occurring in mostly R districts and the result is a D governor who won’t buck Biden and a GOPe that won’t challenge her.
That’s why AZ isn’t on the “support TX” list, even though about 60% of the population would.