As a Trump-era border policy allowing the federal government to turn back migrants without hearing asylum claims comes to an end this month, states and the federal government are preparing: for more migrants, more asylum claims, and a chance for a shift away from the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement stance.
Ted Nugent, like a bad penny or a zombie who won’t stay dead, keeps turning up at these events showcasing The Worst of America. It’s a gift, I tell you.
Abbott’s next level of cruelty.
We have to lose Gordon Lightfoot but this m-fer still takes up oxygen.
But of course….
If these guys think walls, National Guard or assholery is going to stop the resolve of folks looking for a life free of terror they best get a clue. The Texas / USA border is 2000 miles long with most of it inhospitable territory and remote. It’s not an “open border” it’s a porous one and NOTHING the Texas tough guys have proposed can do shit about that. It’s being used as an issue. NO ONE has a solution.
I think Governor Abbott has in mind the old Texas Ranger slogan, “Shoot first and ask questions later.” In other words, authorize everyone with a gun in the Lone Star State to take out anyone they think might not be here fully legally.
Fuck Texas, it’s Utah that is in real trouble…
How about we let Texas blow their budget on interdiction policies that don’t, won’t, and can’t work, and use it as an opportunity to redeploy the whole migra bureaucracy to TJ where they can hugely expand to process legal border crossings and asylum claims more expeditiously? Maybe then Texas will discover the obvious, that the real problems surrounding immigration have nothing to do with physical control of the border, and with the failure now on Republicans, the Fox news freakout will magically disappear just like the “caravan.”
What are the proposed penalties for breaking this law? Imprisonment? Execution? Another example of Texas GQP forces pretending they understand our constitutional form of government. And showing their true colors; bigotry and xenophobia.
“I’ve been saying for two years, we should test U.S. v. Arizona ,” Paxton said, saying separately that “we’ve got a different Court.”
“We’ve got the best chance we’ve ever had to overturn that and give the states the ability to protect their citizens, because if we can’t do it we leave our citizens unprotected in various ways,” he added.
Not how this is supposed to work! You don’t get to intentionally break the law to force it to change!
EDIT: Ok obviously that is not an absolute statement. But these people aren’t participating in civil disobedience to expand rights to the less fortunate. They’re abusing political power to restrict rights.
One of the things that Republicans and their media outlets have to do is stop claiming that Biden has an “Open Border” Policy. Because one it’s not true and two. Ignorant and selective listening people in Honduras hear that there are “Open Borders” and those are the rumors that get the caravans started.
Concerned citizens will volunteer to stop the invading hoards…
Meal Team 6X had best stay home in front of their teevees drinking beer and stuffing pizza. It’s fun to talk vigilante, but very damn hot outside in sun and cactus country.
Never let facts get in the way of a good narrative.
This is how the right-wing media enflame the minions. They don’t care about the truth. They care about keeping the power in the hands of their benefactors. To wit: the seizure of the major fentanyl shipments at the border isn’t considered a success by the Biden administration - it’s a failure because look at how much is crossing the border.
And no one reports on the stuff that’s coming in through viable shipping paths.
This is how the minions are entirely uninformed and they like it that way.
Well, when you consider that UT is the biggest per capita consumer of pornography in the country, yeah.
They rewrote portions of their Bible and it now reads, in part: "For I was a stranger, and you rebuffed me."
Actually, the fascistgop is doing everything in its power to make sure that no opponent of fascism will live a life ‘free of terror’ in this country (THEIR country). The fascistgop is screaming at the top of their lungs - Don’t come here hoping to escape 3rd world terror and poverty because we intend to turn the USA into a hellhole that trumps all hellholes.
Maybe give Texas border enforcement authority in exchange for ending qualified immunity.
Good luck with that. The “media” tends to adopt GOP language. I saw an AP article recently that used the term Democrat run cities and we all remember Obamacare. Open borders is a lie but in a GOP’ers mind it’s OK to use because the border is porous and easily crossed. An “open border” is what’s found in the EU. Once in that Union the borders of member nations are “open” and no passport verification is needed. The USA / Mexico border is passport controlled. But…there’s so much remote and hostile territory along its 2000 miles that anyone wishing to take the risks of crossing that turf is sure to get in bypassing border check. That is NOT an open border. It is a porous one.
So you man the thing at short intervals sufficient to catch anyone approaching ( a ridiculous notion ) or you build a Great Wall Of Texas. However Hadrian’s Wall and the Great Wall of China were built to defend. No one thought the wall alone would suffice. Those walls were manned. 100’s of thousands of soldiers involved.
