This is what Texas is doing to stop Biden’s border chaos



The Biden administration hasn’t just ignored illegal immigration at the southern border but has seemed to encourage it. Now, Texas is left to defend the state’s border alone, and it’s not looking pretty.

Governor Greg Abbott has deployed a barrier of buoys down the middle of the Rio Grande, as he believes the state is dealing with a serious immigration crisis.

Pat Gray and Keith Malinak aren’t convinced it’s the best way to keep illegal immigrants out, noting the immigrants could likely easily swim under.

“It’s pathetic that a state has to do this,” Malinak says, “and not a federal government.”

“We’re not supposed to have to,” Gray agrees, “it’s supposed to be protected by the federal government. Which it isn’t, and hasn’t been for a long time, which is why we’re in the situation we’re in.”

Gray notes that there are hundreds of potentially dangerous criminals coming over the border everyday, despite claims that the number is small.

According to Gray, no number is too small.

“How many did it take on 9/11? 18. Took 18 people. It doesn’t take hundreds of people to cause real problems in this country, so I don’t know why we can’t get them serious about border protection.”

But it’s not just the border that is putting America in danger.

“Don’t look now, but the U.S. national debt has increased by $1 trillion since the debt ceiling was suspended last month,” Malinak adds.

“They’re hitting us at every, every corner. Every single corner they possibly can,” Gray agrees.

“The biggest threat, as you know, is climate change,” Malinak says, mocking the left’s obsession with going green.

“Well, that and white supremacy,” Gray adds, joking, “between those two things, I’m scared to death.”


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Will Biden’s border crisis TRANSFORM America FOREVER?



With the end of the pandemic comes the end of pandemic policy.

Title 42, the policy which allowed border authorities to easily turn away migrants at the border expired at 11:59 p.m. EST on Thursday and has left Americans wondering how this will affect the humanitarian crisis at the southern U.S. border.

Its expiration has also left the public in fear of the anticipated migrant rush and its potential to change America forever.

Texas Rep. Chip Roy discussed what he believes should be done with Glenn Beck.

Beck says he’d “sure like Governor Abbott to start leading a little more than he is,” saying though “he’s shipping everybody out from Texas to other states,” it’s really just hurting other states.

“This is an invasion. You can’t have 400,000 people coming in every month and expect to keep your country,” Beck warns.

“This is why,” Roy says, “the Texas House should have passed HB20, which they crapped on this last week instead of giving more resources to the governor. And instead they’re passing freaking gambling bills. That’s your freaking Texas House Republicans in action.”

Glenn believes this is all a part of a larger strategy.

He says that sending an unprecedented number of migrants across the border can collapse a country. The enemy will “win without firing a bullet.”

“This is exactly that strategy, if you believe someone is trying to collapse the United States of America, and I happen to believe that,” Glenn continues.

Roy agrees.

“The problem is that what people haven’t firmly come to grips with is that we’ve got evil in our own White House and DHS who don’t give a rat’s rear end about our own sovereignty, security. And they want to undermine our country. They’re literally at war with the American people,” Roy says.

“You can only conclude that it’s purposeful,” he continues, “there is no other logical conclusion.”

However, Chip says that Republicans like himself are taking action.

“We’ve finally grown a spine. We’ve finally passed a strong border security bill and I’m proud of it.”

The bill “would make very clear that the secretary — a future secretary who’s not corrupt for a Republican — has straight up authority to turn away at the border for any reason he or she sees fit.”

The bill would also tighten asylum definitions and fix the separation problems between families at the border.


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Leftists LOSE IT over migrants in DC, but WHAT ABOUT TEXAS?

Leftists LOSE IT over migrants in DC, but WHAT ABOUT TEXAS?

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Glenn Beck: Biden set to ‘embolden’ drug cartels and fentanyl deaths in May

DPS has already seized enough fentanyl to kill every man, woman and child in America

Fentanyl. It’s become a word that sets off goosebumps down the back of your neck the instant it leaves someone’s mouth due to its aggressive developing association with drug cartels, violence, addiction, overdoses, and death.

Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn is all too familiar with the destruction that is fentanyl – in the Dallas/Fort Worth area alone, the narcotics teams have seized enough of the drug to give almost 800,000 people fatal doses, he says, while on the Texas border, DPS has seized enough fentanyl to kill every man, woman and child in America. These seizures are roughly estimated as being only a third of what gets to the border, with two-thirds of the drug actually making it across the border.

Fentanyl’s massive rise can be partly attributed to how cheap this synthetic heroin is, along with it’s being exponentially more addictive than its natural counterpart. Its distribution is also indiscriminate, hitting gated communities, at-risk areas, cities, suburbs – there is no one area it impacts more or less.

“We’re losing, at my last briefing, about 300 people a day. A jumbo jet a day of people going down, and dying from fentanyl. And often they’re first-time users,” Waybourn told Glenn Beck on his program this week.

“Fentanyl is going to be crack on triple steroids because there’s no room for error,” Waybourn added. “We believe that four out of 10 pills could be fatal.”

The other issue directing the massive influx of fentanyl is in its distribution. Waybourn explains that they believe the cartels use major highways to get to their hubs in Texas, which are Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston, then split off from there across the country. While some is said to come directly from China into the United States, the main course of entry is through the cartel routes in Mexico to take advantage of America's open border, an easy path for entry. The open border has incredibly empowered the drug cartels, adds Waybourn.

Title 42, the order created during the COVID-19 “pandemic-era”, allowed U.S. border officials to turn migrants away from the border, and back to their home countries. President Joe Biden is set to revoke Title 42 in May, but there are many who are opposed to this move which would open the border up even more, including Sheriff Waybourn.

“[Title 42] is the last arrow in our quiver,” said Waybourn. “I think that that will embolden them ... we will see more dope, more human trafficking, absolutely overwhelming our border counties.”

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'It's an unmitigated DISASTER zone': Trump set to visit US-Mexico border BEFORE 'border czar' Harris



Former President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he will visit "our nation's decimated southern border" in the midst of the Biden administration's ongoing border crisis. How did the current "border czar" allow herself to get lapped by the previous president?

On "The News and Why it Matters" Wednesday, Sara Gonzales was joined by fellow BlazeTV host Elijah Schaffer and former sports reporter Jill Savage to discuss Trump's planned visit to the southern border with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on June 30, and why Vice President Kamala Harris, whom President Biden personally tasked with addressing the border crisis, has failed to visit the area despite increasing pressure.

"The Biden administration inherited from me the strongest, safest, and most secure border in U.S. history and in mere weeks they turned it into the single worst border crisis in U.S. history. It's an unmitigated disaster zone," Trump said in a statement.

"Biden and Harris won't even tour the scenes of the wreckage they created, or come down and visit with the Border Patrol and ICE heroes risking their lives to defend our Nation at a time when the White House is doing everything it can to make their job totally impossible," he added. "What Biden and Harris have done, and are continuing to do on our border, is a grave and willful dereliction of duty."

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Horowitz: Texas should secure its own border. Here’s how.



"Are the sovereign States at the mercy of the Federal Executive's refusal to enforce the Nation's immigration laws?"

That was the question Justice Antonin Scalia posed in his partial concurrence in Arizona v. U.S. in 2012, when there were 357,000 apprehensions at our southern border. With four months left in this fiscal year, there have already been 900,000 apprehensions, with the numbers from the past three months nearly tying the all-time record.

But the situation at the border is even worse than those numbers suggest. The number of gotaways, which are usually the worst criminals, is higher than ever. Also, this comes at a time when Border Patrol and border infrastructure are much larger and more robust than they were during the greatest previous waves of illegal immigration 20 years ago, which makes the lack of deterrent behind those numbers all the more remarkable.

The reason why things are worse than ever despite more agents on the ground is because our Border Patrol is now being used to actively work with the cartel smugglers. Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies reports that CBP has prohibited agents from catching the smuggler who steers the rafts across the Rio Grande River.

"So established is this non-belligerence arrangement that cops and smugglers often banter with one another across the water or at the Texas shore about the weather, or how long the boats might be running tonight," reports Bensman. "Scenes play out where Border Patrol agents simply watch from five or six feet away as smugglers stand on the Texas riverbank or in shallow Rio Grande waters helping their illegal-alien customers out of boats."

From his conversations with high-ranking officials at the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), Bensman, who worked at the Texas DPS for 10 years, reports that CBP is warning Texas officials that they should also refrain from nabbing the smugglers as well.

Taken together, this strategy ensures that all the assets of Border Patrol are actually being harnessed to facilitate a more efficient invasion, which is why the numbers are sky high.

Which brings us back to the original question posed by Scalia in 2012: Are states really at the mercy of DHS' criminal behavior in not only leaving the border wide open but downright facilitating human smuggling into the states?

In 2006, then-Sen. Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer voted for the Secure Fence Act. It required the secretary of homeland security to "take all actions" necessary within 18 months of passage to "achieve and maintain operational control over the entire international land and maritime borders of the United States" (emphasis added). Section 2(b) of the bill defined "operational control" as "the prevention of all unlawful entries into the United States, including entries by terrorists, other unlawful aliens, instruments of terrorism, narcotics, and other contraband."

What has ever come of this requirement? Why should a state be constrained by "federal powers," if they are suffering from the results of the feds violating those very federal powers?

Article I, § 10, cl. 3 (the Compact Clause) states:

No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

The Constitution is clear that, all things equal, states shouldn't engage in warfare with other countries. But all things are not equal in this case, and the Constitution made an exception for those times when states are invaded and in imminent danger.

John Marshall, during the Virginia Ratifying Convention, made it clear that this section affirms that the power given to the states by the people to repel an invasion "is not taken away" by the federal war powers. "When invaded, they [can] engage in war, as also when in imminent danger," asserted the future chief justice during the debate over the Compact Clause on Monday, June 16, 1788. "This clearly proves that the states can use the militia when they find it necessary."

Joseph Story in his commentary on the Compact Clause writes that while the prohibition on states making war is obviously necessary, it was "wisely guarded by exceptions sufficient for the safety of the states, and not justly open to the objection of being dangerous to the Union."

Still, a state may be so situated, that it may become indispensable to possess military forces, to resist an expected invasion, or insurrection. The danger may be too imminent for delay; and under such circumstances, a state will have a right to raise troops for its own safety, even without the consent of Congress.

Haven't the border states (the ones that still care) waited long enough, with too much delay, to act unilaterally?

Some might suggest that caravans and groups of illegal aliens coming north are obviously not part of a declared war. But if you look at the original language of Article IV's guarantee clause protecting states from invasion, Madison originally drafted its language to be read as protecting against "foreign violence." It's clear that this was not necessarily referring to formal warfare with a nation-state, but repelling violent incursions from Indian tribes. If a state can't protect against foreign violence, then what can a state do?

Remember, in addition to telling CBP to stand down at the border, the Biden administration is handcuffing ICE from removing even the most violent foreign criminals. Does that mean a state is forced to allow illegal alien rapists to remain within its borders with no recourse? There has been a 900% increase in apprehension of criminal aliens just in the Laredo Sector alone. Is Texas without any right to stop the untold numbers who are likely getting away and cutting through the ranches of its citizens?

As always, the Lone Star State needs to go it alone and lead the way. Governor Greg Abbott should call a special session to bolster the resources and legal authority of state and local law enforcement to deter and punish illegal aliens. The following issues should be addressed:

  • A surge in funding for an entire division of the Texas DPS to focus solely on deterring illegal immigration.
  • A surge in resources to build or repurpose jail space to hold illegal aliens who are charged on state crimes.
  • Severe mandatory minimum sentences for human smuggling, criminal trespassing, child endangerment, and other existing state crimes that can be used to hit those coming over the border. Also, make them ineligible for bail because they are, by definition, the ultimate flight risk.
  • Pass Rep. Bryan Slaton's bill to have Texas build the border wall. This can be done with a public crowdsourcing campaign as well.
  • In addition, it's time to make illegal immigration a state crime. Many federal crimes are doubled up as state crimes, and there's no reason why illegal immigration should be any different. With a new Supreme Court, it's time to challenge some of the premises behind the erroneous legal theory of the 2012 Arizona v. U.S. decision.
Throughout the Trump tenure, blue states successfully thwarted the enforcement of immigration law with sanctuary policies. Why then shouldn't red states be able to enforce the laws the feds refuse to abide by? The Constitution was designed for the federal government to protect the states from invasion. At some point, that principle can no longer be contorted to such an extent that it becomes a suicide pact,s whereby states are bound by the federal government's own malfeasance.

Gov. Abbott issues disaster declaration, vows to defend Texas border: ​'They came in to the WRONG state'



The crisis at the border continues to worsen, with the U.S. Border Patrol recently releasing some shocking statistics that illuminate just how bad the situation has become. But Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) is doing everything he can to prevent any additional unlawful crossings into the Lone Star State.

Abbott joined Glenn Beck on the radio program Wednesday to describe recent action he has taken to ensure that those who do cross into Texas illegally know they came to the "wrong state."

After noting that both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris "have completely abandoned post as it concerns the Texas border," Abbott explained how "Texas is stepping up" to combat the flood of dangerous gangs and cartels, human traffickers and drugs he says are pouring into border communities.

"Beginning in March, I deployed a thousand Texas Department of Public Safety officers to the border. I deployed the National Guard to the border. And they made well over a thousand arrests of some of these criminals we talked about. They've apprehended more than 33,000 illegal immigrants coming across the border." Abbott said. "But because of the way the Biden administration has abandoned the border, we are now elevating our game. What I did yesterday, in response to more than a dozen counties along the border ... I granted their request for a disaster declaration," he added.

Abbott went on to describe how his disaster declaration gives Texas the authority to toughen penalties for lawbreakers, including criminal trespassing, smuggling, and human trafficking.

"We're going to begin arresting everybody coming across the border and charging them with criminal trespass and putting them in jail. They are coming in here, thinking they'll get the Biden free-ride, and go wherever they want to go. Not in the state of Texas. We'll start arresting them right and left, and putting them behind bars, and saying they came in to the wrong state."

Asked by Glenn if he is prepared for the inevitable "media onslaught", Abbott simply answered, "We're prepared to see a reduction in the number of people coming across the border — because Texas is enforcing the law, period."

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Greg Abbott TOUGHENS Texas border crossing penalties: ‘They came to the wrong state’

Greg Abbott TOUGHENS Texas border crossing penalties: ‘They came to the wrong state’