States concerned about their sovereignty and Biden’s administration could not be any further apart.
With the permission of the private landowner, Texas put up razor wire as a deterrent to illegal entry. Biden’s border people walked right up to that private property, cut the razor wire, and allowed illegal immigrants to waltz right in over the border.
Biden and Abbott have very different understandings about what their responsibilities on the border actually are.
Abbott has been locking it down wherever he can, whether with concertina wire on private property, ordering a physical barrier to be anchored in the Rio Grande to make crossing difficult, and arresting people caught committing crimes.
Texas continues to hold the line against criminal trespassing at the southern border.
Texas National Guard soldiers and DPS troopers deployed to #OperationLoneStar have apprehended over 386,000 illegal immigrants and made over 30,000 criminal arrests.https://t.co/605vZxJ4qz
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) June 30, 2023
Biden, on the other hand, has used every tool at his disposal to throw open the border as wide as possible.
The philosophical difference came into real conflict in a situation where Texas had the private landowners’s permission to erect a razor wire deterrent… only to see Border Patrol cut through it and let the illegal immigrants pass freely onto the private land.
NEW: Video from source in Eagle Pass shows Border Patrol cutting through razor wire placed by the state of TX to allow migrants to enter & be processed after crossing illegally. @TxDPS tells me this is the first time they know of this happening, and that it’s being looked into… pic.twitter.com/jESPbzj9sw
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 30, 2023
The response?
CBP RESPONDS: A CBP official tells me a Border Patrol boat encountered a group of migrants with several small children, and that in order to quickly apprehend them and get them out of the heat, a BP agent cut the razor wire to access the area “consistent w/ federal law”.
CBP… pic.twitter.com/ZNfRSA7Ajj— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 30, 2023
Federal responsibility? Yes. It is.
A responsibility they have abandoned.
That doesn’t mean the states have no recourse to act in their own best interests in the case of willful negligence on the federal government’s part.
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