The mayor of a Texas city on the U.S. southern border with Mexico is begging President Joe Biden to stop releasing illegal immigrants into his community during the crisis stemming from Winter Storm Uri.
Del Rio Mayor Bruno Lozano made an urgent plea to President Biden to stop releasing illegal immigrants into his community because they don't have the resources to help illegal aliens, plus the migrants pose a potential health risk to residents by spreading COVID-19.
"I am pleading and requesting with you to please put a halt to any measures regarding the release of immigrants awaiting court dates, into the city of Del Rio and surrounding areas," Lozano told Biden in a video message.
Del Rio is a city on the southern border that received a record 11 inches of snow this week. The city, which has a U.S. Border Patrol station, has experienced widespread power outages, water shortages, and there are empty food shelves at stores.
"If you do send these individuals into our community, we will be forced to make a decision to leave them without resources under these dire circumstances," the mayor said in the video as images of long lines to grocery stores with empty shelves were shown.
"Please make another plan for this federal issue," he told the president. "If you are going to allow these individuals into our community, I ask that you please provide the supplies and means necessary to accommodate them safely under these extreme circumstances.
"We are completely and utterly spread thin with resources for our community," he continued.
The city has been housing its citizens who are without heat in municipal buildings.
"Our nonprofits, our churches are running thin with resources to provide to our very own citizens," Lozano added. "Additionally, we have been burdened with the inadequate communication systems throughout the entire area, which has impacted our ability to respond and coordinate limited resources and distribution."
Lozano, who is a U.S. Air Force veteran, highlighted his city's medical emergencies that would be exacerbated by an influx of new people.
"We have been outsourcing dialysis treatments for at-need persons within our community," he said of the dire circumstances, adding that the city has had to "relocate the elderly who are in need of power for oxygen tanks."
The mayor also pointed out the health dangers of allowing in large numbers of individuals who have not been tested for the coronavirus.
Lozano noted that the Biden administration has "taken a firm stance on COVID-19 protections for Americans."
"I am asking you to ensure the health and safety of all of our tax-paying citizens along the border are treated with the same urgent consideration," said the mayor.
"Releasing the migrant population without any COVID-19 protection protocols is undermining your commitment to the stand against COVID-19," Lozano said in his message to Biden.
Last week, the Biden administration announced that it will allow 25,000 asylum-seekers into the United States from Mexico while their cases are pending, a dramatic shift from former President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
Earlier this month, Sheriff A.J. Louderback of Jackson County, Texas, said that President Biden was releasing illegal immigrants into the U.S. without testing them for the coronavirus.
Lozano declared, "I cannot mix the migrant population with Del Rio residents that are extremely vulnerable and have been displaced due to the extreme weather that has not improved."
"We may be a small town that is off of your radar, but we are a community of 50,000 people who need your attention," Lozano concluded. "We are requesting that you please listen and that you please come through."
Winter storms left 4.1 million Texans without power earlier this week. As of Thursday afternoon, there were an estimated 325,000 people in the state still without power.
In 2019, Lozano made headlines when he blasted state and federal lawmakers for not securing Del Rio from illegal immigrants and called for more CBP officers.
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Bette Midler used the unprecedented winter storm in Texas to attack Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn. The Hollywood actress claimed that God is punishing the GOP senators from Texas with the deadly snowstorms that are believed to have a role in at least 35 deaths in eight states and left millions without power and heat this week.
Midler implied that the historic Winter Storm Uri is "payback" for Cruz and Cornyn previously questioning President Joe Biden's win in the 2020 election.
Her remarks replied to a random Twitter user who called Cruz and Cornyn "inept" for requesting disaster relief for Texas while both lawmakers voted against federal aid during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Both senators voted against the relief package because they said it had "billions in unrelated spending," including money for "things like repairing fisheries in the Pacific" and "Smithsonian repairs."
Midler argued that "inept" was the "wrong word" to characterize the Republican senators. Instead, she described the GOP senators as "hateful," "vicious," and "cruel."
"I feel for the people suffering thru this weather, but #God doesn't seem to like #TedCruz or #JohnCornyn," Midler tweeted. "These two also never recognized that #Joe won. If this isn't payback, I don't know what is."
"Inept" is the wrong word. "Hateful", "Vicious", "Cruel" might all apply. I feel for the people suffering thru th… https://t.co/wfuGHsvH9r— bettemidler (@bettemidler)1613537478.0
Sen. Cornyn acknowledged Biden as "president-elect" on Dec. 9. Cornyn did not object to the certification of the Electoral College votes.
"There's good constitutional and other legal grounds to say: You had your day in court, 60 different lawsuits in state courts, you had a chance to appeal those to the Supreme Court, and as I read the law once a state certifies its electoral vote it's conclusive," Cornyn previously stated.
"That's sort of the nature of these elections. You got to have a winner. You got to have a loser," Cornyn told the Associated Press in December. "Joe Biden's on a path to be president of the United States."
Sen. Cruz called for the dispute of the certification unless Congress established a commission to conduct an audit of the 2020 presidential election.
The "Hocus Pocus" actress was also one of many noted leftists who viciously celebrated the death of broadcasting legend Rush Limbaugh. Midler, who has more than 2 million Twitter followers, seemed to hint that Limbaugh is in hell after passing away from lung cancer on Wednesday.
#RushLimbaugh has gone to his reward. Bet it’s hot.— bettemidler (@bettemidler)1613598073.0
Midler has a history of tweeting hatred toward Limbaugh. The actress has called Limbaugh a "bully," "feral pig," "gobbler of OxyContin," "the Taliban," and said his massiively popular radio program was spewing "sewage." Following Limbaugh's stage 4 cancer diagnosis, Midler said she would offer "zero prayers."
Last week, Midler was one of many Hollywood celebrities who suffered complete meltdowns after the Senate acquitted former President Donald Trump in his secondimpeachment trial. Midler went on an unhinged rant, claiming that Trump "got away with murder."
"This lopsided vote is an American tragedy of monumental proportions., one we made all by ourselves," the singer alleged about the impeachment acquittal. "The consequences of this travesty have yet to be known, but I predict they will be uglier than even the last four years have been."
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