The Justice Department says agents can’t access 2.5 miles of the border and a boat ramp in Eagle Pass.
The Texas National Guard and state troopers have blocked U.S. Border Patrol agents from a 2.5-mile stretch of the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, preventing federal agents from patrolling that part of the border, according to a court filing by the U.S. Department of Justice, escalating the clash between state and federal authorities on the Texas-Mexico border.
On Wednesday night, troopers and National Guard members began to take “full control” of the 47-acre Shelby Park, erected concertina wire and fencing at the park to close off access to the public, Eagle Pass Mayor Rolando Salinas said. He added that he was told that the park would be closed indefinitely and the state took the action to prevent immigrants from illegally crossing into Texas.
State officers and National Guard members also have denied Border Patrol agents entry to the park, where agents routinely used a boat ramp to launch their boats to patrol the Rio Grande, the filing says. There is also a staging area at the park that Border Patrol agents use to inspect migrants who have been apprehended in this part of the border, the filing says.
In the filing, the DOJ is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in an ongoing legal battle between the state and the federal government and overrule a 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that prevents Border Patrol agents from cutting the concertina wire Texas has strung along the Rio Grande.
It’s time to extinguish the lone star. When you take up arms against the country… it’s SHERMAN TIME!
Joking aside, though, this is treason and literally taking up arms against the country. The insurrection needs to be put down, and the courtrooms filled with these traitors on trial, especially Abbot and his cronies.
Send in the FBI along with support of they’re using the Texas guard…
Arrest everyone for interfering with federal law enforcement. If that doesn’t make the point, then we can get more extreme.
Even simpler than that. Biden is the Commander in Chief. Abbot can mobilize the National Guard in his state, but at the end of the day if their commander receives a stand down order direct from the President, they MUST obey, or it’s insubordination and the penalty for insubordination within the military is much higher than in the private sector.
The ol’ Eisenhower special, “fuck your segregation supporting national guard, now they’re my integration enforcing national guard.”
Genuinely shocked more presidents haven’t whipped that one out against insubordinate governors, by now I’d have made a show of having them arrest Abbott on charges of human trafficking for the bus shit.
That… assumes they listen. these fuckwits are already overstepping their legal authority. But yes, anyone in the Nat Guard should get a stand-down order and told to fuck off, and refusal… well FAFO applies.
The problem is that Abbot is not just using Nat Guard, but also local cops. (and park rangers,). Those lot should get hit with federal obstruction charges.
This is the same and easiest answer. National guard is on fed payroll. See how long they stay the course pro bono.
What is Biden waiting for? Is he trying to de-escalate the situation in some other way?
He’s being a coward like Democrats always are.
Sure would be nice to have actual opposition to the fascists. We get the Democrats instead.
That’s sort of their shtick. They need the Republicans to exist so they are the only option for anyone capable of critical thinking. We have a right wing party and a religious, extremist party. I’m never going to vote for anyone who wants to make laws based on what their imaginary friend tells them, so I’m stuck voting for a bunch of corporate shills… Hooray.
Send in the FBI along with support of they’re using the Texas guard…
What are you saying here?
I’m saying they’re obstructing federal law enforcement. (BPC are federal LEOs,)
the FBI is probably going to be better equipped to handle dealing with arresting a shit load of idiots who think that obstructing FEDERAL agents is a good idea, than the BPC. Arrest everyone and nail them with all appropriate charges.
I just wasn’t sure what you were saying.
send in the FBI
OK, I get this part.
along with support of
this seems like maybe an incomplete thought here
they’re using the Texas guard
uh, yes
support from the military- nat guard is a military organization, so, FBI may need additional resources to deal with it, if things go to shit.
Again, thank you for the clarification.
Yeah, fuck the Supreme Court. I want the FBI to raid the governor’s mansion and take Abbott into custody. Might as well snatch up Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton while they’re at it, put them on trial in…fuck it, Hawaii. I’d bet money a jury of Hawaii residents would vote to toss those three into the Molokai channel and let the waves have them.
I grew up close to where Sherman was born.
I’m starting to get the urge to take a stroll on down to the ocean for some southern BBQ.
I do not like BBQ, but I’ll pitch in some gas money and a mix-tape.
I love BBQ both literally and figuratively. LOL
So what I am hearing is that Greg Abbot is preventing the border patrol from detaining migrants.
Yeah he’s doing this to manufacture a crisis. Fucking piece of shit traitor.
Greg Abbot is soft on immigration!
The so called “immigration crisis” has always been manufactured
I remember when Fox News got called out for reusing migrant caravan footage for several years in a row but saying they were all different caravans
Federalize the National Guard, use them to arrest state troopers who refuse their lawful orders to disperse.
We really need an agency specifically dedicated to policing the police, IIRC the military has their own infrastructure for prosecuting misconduct
Texas Rangers are responsible for that in Texas.
How’s that working out for Texas?
Slowly.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/06/us/texas-dps-termination-proceedings-trooper-uvalde/index.html
I don’t believe I will see Ken Paxton brought to justice in this life.
About as well as their power grid in the winter.
Arctic blast in 2 days! Hope I don’t die from slightly lower than freezing temps because my government can’t help but be as corrupt as possible. Boy, I sure do love living in Texas!
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One party is tepid on making things better while the other is obsessed with making them worse.
Immigration is a football wedge issue that cannot and will not be addressed.
The solution is already known, stricter enforcement of penalties for employers of undocumented workers. But that would actually fuck a sizable portion of the economy, as these workers are vital to a lot of low-wage labor (harvesting and food processing in particular).
Instead the plants and the feds play a game where the authorities give advance notice of ICE raids, and take a couple people and the employers face insignificant penalties.
As with any other mass behavior, adjusting it requires altering the economic incentives. People come here for higher wages, they come here illegally because the legal method is expensive, arbitrary, and time-consuming, and the opportunities open to illegal migrants are still enticing enough. Stopping illegal migrants requires removing those opportunities.
That might make some shareholders a penny less wealthy though, so we can’t have it. We’ll just keep arguing about this for the next 500 years and accomplish nothing, just be sure to vote for US because the other side wants to do the BAD THING on immigration.
The problem with the Dems is that the big tent means nobody actually understands what the “how” would end up looking like on that.
There’s racism to it without a doubt, but just going open borders like the progressives lean more to would also be VERY BAD for the US.
Not because of the corrupting influence of immigrants or whatever, but because doing that instantly makes everyone in the world very angry at America for brain draining all of them into oblivion.
Modhi would be absolutely losing his shit and making comparisons to the time we parked nuclear warheads off India’s shores (Kissinger shit) if we let all those Indian Geniuses TED Talks moan and groan about just waltz right in, and the European Union would be having a field day with the US department of state over all their tech workers jumping ship for better paying jobs in the States.
That’s not to say there wouldn’t be advantages to such an effect, internationally humiliating Russia and China by hoovering up workers and intellectuals that would have otherwise been put to work against our national interests, would be a ballzy display of “fuck you” to both, but for everyone else, it’s basically hostile foreign policy to not organize the rules case by case via diplomatic understanding.
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