If illegal aliens do the jobs Americans won’t do, GOP Texas Governor Greg Abbott is doing the job one prominent American named Joe Biden won’t do. He’s trying to stop the illegal-alien invasion that will worsen if Biden stops Title 42 public-health expulsions of illegals.
Late last week, Abbott and the GOP-controlled legislature approved spending another almost $500 million to stop the invasion, and announced that the state had apprehended more than 230,000 illegals.
The latest push against Biden’s open-borders Great Replacement program is part of Operation Lone Star. That has included shipping illegals to Washington, D.C., and dropping them in front of the U.S. Capitol.
Guardsmen Deployed, Illegal Aliens Arrested
Abbott will spend another $495.3 million on Lone Star, all but $30 million of it on the deployment of the Texas National Guard, he announced on Friday.
“Texas will not sit on the sidelines as President Biden continues turning a blind eye to the crisis at our southern border,” Abbott said of Biden’s refusing to enforce U.S. immigration law:
Texans’ safety and security is our top priority, and we will continue fighting to keep our communities safe. This additional funding ensures the Lone Star State is fully equipped to provide Texans the border security strategy they demand and deserve.
Also on Friday, Abbott announced that Texas Guardsmen have, as a practical matter, become the Lone Star State’s own Border Patrol.
“Since the launch of Operation Lone Star, multi-agency efforts have led to more than 239,849 migrant apprehensions, along with more than 14,364 criminal arrests — and more than 11,666 felony charges,” Abbott said. As well, more than “4,710 weapons and almost $37 million in currency have been seized. In the fight against fentanyl, DPS has seized over 342 million lethal doses throughout the state.”
Overall, the state is spending $4 billion to secure the border. Texas is even buying unused steel panels to build the border wall that Biden stopped to keep illegals coming into the state.
Abbott has also signed agreements with Mexican states on the other side of the border to curtail the invasion.
Title 42
Abbott received a little help last week from U.S. District Judge Robert Summerhays, who issued a temporary restraining order that blocks Biden from lifting the application of Title 42. That law permits immigration authorities to immediately deport illegals for health reasons. Trump implemented the law in 2020 as the China Virus panic began.
Three states had sued Biden over the impending date to lift Title 42, May 23. Eighteen states joined.
They argued that Biden had violated the Administration Procedures Act. But as a practical matter, their fear was the tsunami of illegals that would hit the border when Title 42 expulsions stopped. Biden’s own people estimated as many as 18,000 per day.
Frighteningly, Homeland Security Chief Alejandro Mayorkas all but confirmed that figure on Sunday. Speaking with Dana Bash, hostess of CNN’s State of the Union, Mayorkas acknowledged the coming disaster if Biden stops Title 42 expulsions.
“What we do is we prepare and we plan, and we’ve been doing so for months understanding that the Title 42 authority that the CDC holds is not going to be around forever because, quite frankly, we want to conquer the pandemic and put it behind us,” Mayorkas told Bash.
Mayorkas, who openly refuses to enforce immigration law, also confessed that DHS decided in September to lift Title 42, then published a plan to do so in February.
That plan includes the warning to Americans that immigration authorities will import as many illegals they can:
When directed by the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in conjunction with international and homeland security enterprise mission partners, will take action to humanely prevent and respond to surges in irregular migration across the U.S. SWB Security and Irregular Migration Zone (SWBIMZ). This will be done while ensuring that migrants can apply for any form of relief or protection for which they may be eligible, including asylum, withholding of removal, and protection from removal under the regulations implementing United States obligations under the Convention Against Torture.
U.S. border agents have apprehended more than 221,000 illegals in March, and between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, released more than 80,000.
So far this fiscal year, which began October 1, agents have dealt with more than one million illegals. Almost 400,000 have been released.
