Abbott doubles down on 'invasion' declaration and vows to reinstall defenses after Eagle Pass declares state of emergency: 'Not all of these people come in peace'



Gov. Greg Abbott indicated Wednesday that Texas will shore up border defenses at the beleaguered city of Eagle Pass amidst an unprecedented surge of illegal aliens who appear to be largely single males. The Republican governor further stressed that the Democratic president's policies were responsible for the "invasion" under way.

The Biden administration, which has failed to stop over 5.8 million illegal aliens from stealing into the U.S. since January 2021, has not only worked ardently to prevent the Lone Star State from securing its border with Mexico but has also considered the possibility of corralling the invading hordes inside Texas.

Nowhere has this frustrative effort been more brazen than at Eagle Pass, where the Democratic administration successfully ensured the dismantling of Texas' floating border barrier along the Rio Grande.

Abbott posted a video to X Wednesday of what appear to be federal agents with wire cutters, noting, "Texas installed razor wire in Eagle Pass to stop illegal crossing. Today the Biden Admin CUT that wire, opening the floodgates to illegal immigrants. I immediately deployed more Texas National Guard to repel illegal crossings & install more razor wire."

Eagle Pass Mayor Rolando Salinas Jr. told the New York Times that migrants, not federal officials, apparently cut three sections of the concertina wire.

"Once they cut it, it kind of opened the floodgates," said Salinas.

The White House did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

Despite swift corrective action by the Texas National Guard, the damage has appears to have been done.

Salinas issued and signed an emergency declaration Wednesday due to the surge of illegal aliens into the area, noting, "The emergency declaration grants us the ability to request financial resources to provide the additional services caused by the influx of the undocumented immigrants."

Within a few hours, over 4,000 people crossed the Rio Grande — where Texas had briefly had an effective maritime barrier — and into Eagle Pass, a city with around 29,000 residents. Thousands more are expected to steal across the border on Thursday.

Salinas indicated the latest mob, largely from Venezuela, has overrun Mission Border Hope, the only migrant shelter in Eagle Pass, reported the New York Post.

The city indicated that per the order of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Eagle Pass Bridge 1 had been shut down until further notice owing to the "significant influx of migrants in the region."

Footage from Eagle Pass shows an interminable line largely comprising military-age males marching under Eagle Pass bridge.

It\u2019s a total free for all in Eagle Pass right now. Mass illegal crossing taking place for over an hour and a half. Almost 2 years to the day we saw 15,000+ Haitians under the bridge in Del Rio, we now have thousands of predominantly Venezuelans gathering under Eagle Pass bridge.
— Bill Melugin (@Bill Melugin) 1695227842

"One of the situations is that a lot of these [migrants], they're single males and they don't want to listen to instructions and they're leaving the facility," said Salinas. "Not all of these people come in peace."

WOAI-TV reported that sources with Panama Immigration indicated last week that between 4,000 and 6,000 migrants were marching on the U.S. from Colombia through the Darien Jungle.

Maverick County Sheriff Tom Schmerber told WOAI, "It's gonna happen again. It's been happening over and over and over for the last two years, and I don't see that ending right now."

An end to the "invasion" might require an end to corresponding incentives; however, the Biden administration went the other way this week, indicating late Wednesday that 500,000 illegal aliens from Venezuela will be allowed to stay in the country and work legally, depressing citizen wages, competing for American jobs, and flouting American immigration law.

In response to the latest surge, Abbott reshared his November 2022 "invasion" declaration, in which he wrote, "The federal government's failure [to protect the states against invasion] has forced me to invoke Article 1, § 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, thereby enabling the State of Texas to protect its own territory against invasion by the Mexican drug cartels."

In his declaration, Abbott underscored that Biden's "inaction has led to catastrophic consequences" and that under his watch, "America is suffering the highest volume of illegal immigration in the history of our country."

The Republican governor similarly reiterated Wednesday, "We are building a border wall, razor wire & marine barriers. We are also repelling migrants."

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Mexican president thanks Biden for not securing American border with 'even one meter of wall'



The president of Mexico thanked President Joe Biden for failing to secure America's southern border and insisted that he grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens who have stolen into the United States.

Biden met with the leftist Mexican leader Andres Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Mexico City on Tuesday for the North American Leaders' Summit. The topic that dominated the summit was what Biden called "the greatest migration in human history."

Standing alongside Biden and Trudeau, Obrador remarked, "President Biden, you are the first president of the United States in a very long time that has not built not even one meter of wall and ... we thank you for that, sir."

The Mexican president noted that "some may not like" Biden's refusal to secure the border, particularly "the conservatives."

\u201cWATCH: AMLO thanks Biden for being "the first President of the United States in a very long time that has not built...not even one meter of (border) wall .... Although some might not like it- although the conservatives don't like it."\u201d
— Jorge Bonilla (@Jorge Bonilla) 1673396448

465,034 illegal aliens were encountered at the border in the first two months of this fiscal year; 2.37 million criminal noncitizens poured over the southern border last year, and millions more stole over in 2021.

During former President Donald Trump's last term in office, only 458,088 illegal aliens were encountered at the southern border, and his administration raised roughly 737,079 meters of wall.

Biden said, "There can no longer be any question, none, in today’s interconnected world. We cannot wall ourselves off from shared problems," adding, "We’re trying to make it easier for people to get here."

That wasn't enough for the Mexican president.

Obrador insisted "in a very respectful manner" that Biden pressure the "U.S. Congress to regularize the migration situations of millions of Mexicans who have been in the States working, living in the United States, and contributing to the development of that great nation."

On his way to the summit, Biden met with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in the beleaguered border city of El Paso. Abbott communicated to Biden: "Under your watch ... America is suffering the worst illegal immigration in the history of our country. Your open-border policies have emboldened the cartels, who grow wealthy by trafficking deadly fentanyl and even human beings."

Abbott indicated that what Biden later characterized as making it "easier for people to get here" was tantamount to a failure to "defend the States against invasion."

The New York Times reported that during the summit, the Mexican president — whose crime-ridden country is presently a war zone — took a not-so-subtle jab at Abbott for ejecting criminal noncitizens from Texas and sending them to so-called sanctuary cities, calling the governor's efforts "completely inhuman."

According to the White House, the North American leaders ultimately "reaffirmed their commitment to work together to achieve safe, orderly, and humane migration in region."

These commitments apparently included giving "migrants streamlined access to legal pathways"; "countering xenophobia and discrimination against migrants and refugees by promoting balanced public narratives on migrants and refugees to support their meaningful inclusion in the region"; and, per Biden's announcement last week, allowing 30,000 migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, or Haiti to enter the U.S. every month.

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Abbott hands Biden letter calling his 'photo-op' border visit '$20 billion too little and two years too late'



Millions of illegal aliens have beat President Joe Biden to the U.S.-Mexico border, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) won't let him forget it.

On his way to Mexico City to meet with Mexican and Canadian leaders for the North American Leaders' Summit, Biden stopped off in El Paso — his first visit to the beleaguered southern border since taking office.

Abbott was waiting on the tarmac for the president with a strongly-worded letter in hand.

The letter made clear that Biden's "visit to our southern border with Mexico today is $20 billion too little and two years too late."

Predictably 'sanitized'

During his stopover in El Paso, Biden managed to avoid meeting or interacting with any one of the millions of illegal aliens who have poured over the border during his time in office.

Congresswoman Mayra Flores (R-Texas) shared images on Twitter intimating that the consequences of Biden's actions had been hidden from sight:

\u201cThis is El Paso before Biden's visit and after his announcement he was coming to El Paso. We needed him to see what his policies have done to our Border cities and South Texas is still waiting for his Border visit.\n\nPhotos: Fit Fam El Paso\u201d
— Mayra Flores (@Mayra Flores) 1673210740

The New York Post reported that authorities in the Democrat-run city had covertly torn down illegal alien encampments and hidden migrants from view.

The Border Patrol Union tweeted, "El Paso being cleaned up as if nothing unusual ever happened there. Just in time for Biden's 'visit to the border'. We suggest just landing in Des Moines, Iowa and telling him it's El Paso. He'll never know the difference."

A senior Biden administration official suggested to CNN that this was merely "coincidental."

Abbott, however, predicted this "coincidence" in the letter he handed to the president.

The letter noted that Biden's visit "avoids the sites where mass illegal immigration occurs and sidesteps the thousands of angry Texas property owners whose lives have been destroyed by your border politics."

"Even the city you visit has been sanitized of the migrant camps which had overrun downtown El Paso because your Administration wants to shield you from the chaos that Texans experience on a daily basis ... the direct result of your failure to enforce the immigration laws that Congress enacted," wrote Abbott.

The Democratic El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser, allegedly instructed by the White House not to declare an emergency over the border crisis, did so in last month after his city was overwhelmed by illegal aliens.

Leeser noted that neither asylum-seekers nor the El Paso community were safe.

Nearly 500,000 illegal aliens had already been encountered at the border by November this fiscal year. 2.37 million criminal noncitizens poured over the southern border last year and millions more stole over in 2021.

Abbott underscored in his letter to Biden that "under President Trump, the federal government achieved historically low levels of illegal immigration. Under your watch, by contrast, America is suffering the worst illegal immigration in the history of our country. Your open-border policies have emboldened the cartels, who grow wealthy by trafficking deadly fentanyl and even human beings."

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fentanyl — frequently made with Chinese precursor chemicals and trafficked by Mexican cartels — is the leading killer of American adults ages 18-45.

A job to do

Abbott further accused Biden of failing to "defend the States against invasion through faithful execution of federal laws," and told him, once finished with his "photo-ops in a carefully stage-managed version of El Paso," that he has a job to do.

The Texas governor outlined five policy initiatives Biden should take on:

  • "Comply with the many statutes mandating that various categories of aliens 'shall' be detained, and end the practice of unlawfully paroling aliens en masse";
  • "stop sandbagging the implementation of the Remain-in-Mexico policy andTitle 42 expulsions, and fully enforce those measures as the federal courts have orderedyou to do";
  • "aggressively prosecute illegal entry between ports of entry, and allow ICE to remove illegal immigrants in accordance with existing federal laws";
  • "resume construction of the border wall in the State of Texas, using the billions of dollars Congress has appropriated for that purpose"; and
  • "designate the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations."

Axios characterized Biden's stopover in El Paso as an effort, ahead of the 2024 presidential election, to showcase a modicum of interest in law enforcement and to take "a possible Democratic vulnerability head-on."

Ahead of the visit, Abbott said it was nothing more than "a photo op and a game of pretend."

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) wrote, "As soon as he took office, President Biden stopped enforcing America’s immigration laws, rolled back effective border policies, & offered the world a clear incentive to illegally enter the US. His overdue visit to the border is solely a poor attempt to score political points."

Illegal alien and DACA recipient sentenced to five consecutive life sentences for the brutal murders of three Americans



An illegal alien and so-called "Dreamer" who brutally murdered three American citizens in 2018 was sentenced Friday to five consecutive life sentences.

What is the background?

27-year-old Luis Perez, a Mexican national, shot and killed his former roommates Steven Marler and Aaron Hampton on Nov. 1, 2018, and injured two others in Springfield, Missouri.

The next day, the criminal noncitizen murdered Sabrina Starr, the 21-year-old who provided him with the weapon he used in the first two slayings.

TheBlaze reported at the time of the murders that Perez had been locked up in the Middlesex County Jail just months before on suspicion of various felonies, including assault, aggravated assault, and child abuse.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials requested that the jail hold Perez while it started deportation proceedings against him, however, the jail elected instead to release the criminal noncitizen. Perez summarily went on to kill Marler, Hampton, and Starr.

John Tsoukaris, the ICE Newark field office director said, "This tragedy might have been avoided had it not been for the reckless policy required of the Middlesex County Jail by their county officials."

County officials suggested that the blame instead lay with ICE, as the agency "has the legal authority and the resources to secure such orders from a federal judge with regard to any inmate in the county's custody it seeks to detain or deport."

The sentence

While Greene County prosecutors initially sought to have Perez put to death for his crimes, they ultimately fought to ensure he would never again walk free, reported the Springfield News-Leader.

Assistant Greene County Prosecutor Phil Fuhrman said, "Mr. Perez is dangerous, he is violent, and he is deserving of the maximum sentence."

Perez's attorney pushed for leniency in terms of his client's sentencing, suggesting that the murderous illegal alien should receive his life sentences at the same time rather than one after another, so that he might one day become eligible for parole. The thinking behind this leniency: Perez, in the U.S. unlawfully, allegedly had a tough time growing up in New Jersey.

A spokesman for ICE revealed that Perez was previously a recipient of the "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" program in 2012 and 2014, enabling him to dodge deportation and to receive a work permit.

Judge Thomas Mountjoy, who found Perez guilty of the murders in October, was not swayed by this line of argumentation, noting he was "struck by the magnitude of the violence" and that the "magnitude speaks to requiring the most severe sentence that the law would structure."

Mountjoy gave Perez consecutive life sentences, ensuring the murderer will die in prison.

The News-Leader reported that Deboray Elkins, the mother of victim Aaron Hampton, called Perez's victims "fallen heroes" and said Perez's conviction in October marked a "day of jubilation."

According to ICE, 62 illegal aliens were convicted in fiscal year 2022 for murder or manslaughter; 1,142 were convicted with assault, battery, or domestic violence; 896 were convicted for burglary, robbery, or fraud; 1,614 were convicted for driving under the influence; 365 were convicted for sex offenses; and many more faced convictions for other crimes.

Unfinished business

While Perez's co-defendant Nyadia Burden previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder, having bought the bullets Perez used in the murders, two others have pending charges.

Dalia Garcia stands accused of tampering with evidence, having allegedly burned clothing worn during the murders.

Aaron Anderson also remains on the hook, having been charged with being an accessory to murder.

Biden administration spent $324 million in taxpayer funds on illegal immigrants' dental and health care at holding facilities



U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued its annual report last week, revealing the lengths to which the Biden administration has gone to take care of illegal immigrants who flouted American laws and stole into the nation.

The ICE Health Service Corps' operating budget in 2022 was roughly $324 million, representing an increase of $8 million over the previous year.

According to the annual ICE report, that money was spent on providing "direct care – including medical and dental health services – to over 118,000 non-citizens housed at 19 IHSC-operated facilities throughout the United States, which exceeded 1.1 million visits over the course of the fiscal year."

The IHSC "also oversaw compliance with healthcare-related detention standards for more than 120,500 non-citizens housed in 163 non-IHSC-staffed facilities."

Among these foreign nationals were illegal immigrants, 2.37 million of whom poured over the southern border last year, and nearly 500,000 of whom had already been encountered by the end of November this fiscal year.

One perk of breaking into the country and landing in ICE custody is "an initial medical screening, including for mental health needs, as well as all necessary follow-up care" at taxpayers' expense.

Individuals flagged as "public safety" or flight risks are also rendered these services.

This care is administered by 1,640 U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps officers, civil servants, and contract health professionals at ICE-owned facilities and elsewhere.

According to composite scores recently developed by Gallup along with the nonprofit organization West Health, nearly 112 million (44%) of Americans are presently struggling to pay for health care.

West Health noted in a March 31, 2022, press release that unlike the illegal immigrants in ICE detention facilities, over a third of "cost desperate [American] adults report that they have cut back on utilities, and half have cut back on food in the past 12 months to pay for necessary healthcare."

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted in 2020 that 31.6 million Americans had health insurance, largely those under the age of 65.

3.7 million American children were found to have been uninsured.

While more and more foreign nationals enjoy services that tens of millions of Americans don't have, U.S. taxpayers bear a greater and greater burden.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform published a study in September showing that to provide for the needs of illegal immigrants who've entered the U.S. under Biden, taxpayers must shoulder burden of an additional $20.4 billion every year.

FAIR revealed that this annual figure was not included in the estimated $140 billion per year that taxpayers were already footing, which compensates for the provision of services and benefits to the "longer-term" illegal immigrant population.

In 2018 – years before the border crisis ballooned under Biden – Forbes reported that Americans cross-subsidized health care for illegal immigrants to the tune of $18.5 billion a year.

A new Los Angeles Times/YouGov survey conducted between Dec. 9 and 14 highlighted how the Biden administration's immigration policies are widely unpopular.

The Center Square reported that 64% of respondents said illegal immigration is a problem while 42% said that they should be ejected to their countries of origin.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who announced this week that he was suing the Biden administration over a rule that penalizes taxpayers to pay down the cost of illegal immigration, said that the Biden administration "is committed to opening the borders to aliens who lack the ability to take care of themselves. Texans should not have to pay for these costly immigrants, nor should any other American."