Texas Begins Arresting Illegal
Immigrants for Trespassing as
Part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s Border
Security Plan
Epoch Times,
by
Tom Ozimek
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
7/23/2021 12:34:54 PM
Authorities in Texas have begun arresting illegal immigrants along the U.S.-Mexico border on trespassing charges, according to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has blamed the Biden administration for the surge in illegal immigration and has put in motion his own border security plan to crack down on illegal crossings.
“Texas has begun arresting illegal immigrants who are trespassing in Texas or vandalizing property & fences. They are now being sent to this jail rather than being released like the Biden Admin. has been doing. We are adding more officers, National Guard & jails,” Abbott said in a tweet Thursday.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/23/2021 12:42:32 PM (No. 854660)
Correction to OP comment: Prison at Dilley holds 950. Better yet! Now get a flyover going to drop warning circulars along the border. In Spanish.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 7/23/2021 12:52:49 PM (No. 854674)
Take a page from Joe Arpaio's book. Get tents and let them sleep in tents on cots inside the wire once the 950 capacity is full.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 7/23/2021 12:58:36 PM (No. 854683)
Don't mess with Texas !
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Any bail set? Seems they are all high flight subjects. And why no conspiracy charges? Seems there would be grounds, arranging their crossing with criminal gangs and coyotes. Hire Sheriff Joe as consultant. But I suspect, like much else Abbott and Texas do along the border, this is another showpony display. Election is coming up, and Abbott has some other problems.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/23/2021 1:14:15 PM (No. 854711)
Bail? Bail?
Abbott has done more than any other governor except DeSantis, and DeSantis recognizes what Abbott is trying to do and is supporting him.
Cynics will be cynical. They achieve little.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
red1066 7/23/2021 1:31:46 PM (No. 854732)
This something they should have been doing from the very beginning. If Biteme and the demosluts don't want to uphold federal laws, then the states have to start doing it. Don't just arrested them, send them back to where they came from.
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Good on Abbott. The only issue I see here is what do you do with them? You know BiteMe will tell ICE to refuse to accept them for deportation, and I doubt Texas has the resources to do it themselves. For that matter, Plugs would probably take them and put them right on buses to every red state in America.
So you are left with warehousing them, feeding them, and dealing with all the medical issues they bring. Even keeping them penned up in the desert is going to be super expensive, and as soon as you get a bunch of them together in what looks like an outdoor prison, FedGov will sue to have them released. Charge and convict them, and you overflow your prisons with them, and bust your budgets.
This is why having a commie nitwit running the show is so terrible for America. The states are really powerless to deal with such an influx when someone like Xiden is all for importing the entire third world.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Ribicon 7/23/2021 1:53:59 PM (No. 854753)
Wow, 10 people arrested thus far! Meanwhile, the Catholic Charities facility in McAllen (one of several processing centers there) is processing 7000 newcomers a week and loading them on buses sent to the rest of the usa, with an influx so heavy that there are not enough buses to handle them all. Heckuva job there, Gov. Abbott. Any one of us could do better working all on our own, let along with the full resources of the state of Texas, plus the National Guard, at his disposal. We truly are a nation of fools.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mifla 7/23/2021 1:58:35 PM (No. 854758)
Refreshing to see a Republican to carry through on his threats. Doesn't happen often.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
rochow 7/23/2021 2:07:54 PM (No. 854765)
Stick with that program, govenor!!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 7/23/2021 2:15:41 PM (No. 854770)
Be on guard for when they start whining about... "The Covid".
#8 talks about Catholic Charities. What i understand about this group is as an NGO they get millions of taxpayer dollars. It's about "the Benjamines" , not compassion, otherwise they would have concerns about the communities to which they're sending people who are ill-equipped to function on their own in this modern society. Many, if not most, aren't even literate in their own language.
What kind of a nefarious person works toward destabilization of his own community?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
downnout 7/23/2021 2:27:59 PM (No. 854775)
Tents, PB&J sandwiches, adequate water, showers and adequate sanitary facilities.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mseegal 7/23/2021 2:53:49 PM (No. 854810)
Too little, too late.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 7/23/2021 3:17:17 PM (No. 854832)
#7 does a good job of explaining some of the issues facing a Governor trying to what he can. And those are only a small part of what Governor Abbot faces trying to get the job done. I would like to see a heck of a lot more done. Some of the more critical need to come up with suggestions that can realistically be used to help the situation. Who knows, he may listen. I'd rather have Texan as governor working on it than a carpetbagger trying to take his place.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
skacmar 7/23/2021 3:47:09 PM (No. 854859)
How long until the US Justice Department files a lawsuit claiming that it is unconstitutional for Texas to capture illegal aliens and hold them. The feds will say that is their job. Of course, Texas can say that they were not arrested for being illegal, they were arrested stealing, vandalism, or some other crime. Amnesty International will also file a lawsuit claiming that Texas is violating the rights of refugees or some other far flung reason. Liberals never met a law they wanted to enforce, unless they could use it against a conservative.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
legalart 7/23/2021 4:08:56 PM (No. 854886)
30 years too late. I hope we get a new governor that takes no prisoners.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MDConservative 7/23/2021 4:27:56 PM (No. 854902)
Exactly what effect has Abbott and TXNG/Florida State patrol had on stopping the border invasion? The last three Texas governors, Dubya, Perry and now Abbott, play the part well. The fact is that were there a "D" after their names people would be howling, and rightly.
The border in Texas is so wide open that the world is literally crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico with impunity - from China, Vietnam, the Mid East, and even Romania. What do they know that others may be denying?
Suggestions? Start with enforcing current law. It took how long for AG Ken Paxton or some legal genius to discover that the state's criminal trespass law allowed incarceration? Those border jumpers caught are at least culpable for evading law enforcement, are they not? Likely acting in a conspiracy to do so, with 20 or more spilling from vehicles when pursued. No such charges ever lodged that I've heard. Mothers who gave their children to coyotes to drop from "the wall" or half drown crossing the river, many used as phony family, are celebrated. Seems to be a case of abuse. Never heard of one prosecuted.
It appears plain that this is showpony behavior by elected officials, from sheriffs to the governor. The real problem for them is how to get these folks out of Texas with as little fanfare possible. For them, that's a solution. The expense becomes another state's problem.
Meanwhile, "human trafficking" and the sex trade, kidnapping and even downright enslavement, goes on under their noses. Houston authorities recently discovered a house with 90 border jumpers, many COVIDS infected, in such a situation. It's far from likely that was unique.
I've watched the show for the past two years from my Texas residence. I'm not impressed. Not long ago the mantra was "There's nothing the state/governor can do." Anyone who would like to extol the accomplishments of Texas authorities in this matter...please do. Well, they did start a Go Fund Me page to pay for completing the border wall...
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
TXknitter 7/23/2021 5:00:53 PM (No. 854929)
Many Texans do not want to face that, #17. Bottom line, many are flat embarrassed that there is so much “all hat, no cattle” Republican ACTION on the part of our Governor, Senators and Congresspeople. Its okay that truth tellers are called cynics and mean because we will no longer be go along get along tribal party people any longer. Sorry, I love my God, my family, my state, and my country too much to play that game now.
Colonel Allen West has been on our border, with Facebook posts daily, photos and Border Patrol (tired of no support by Abbott) fully helping him tell the real numbers to Texans. This is a big reason why Governor Abbott is really stepping on the gas.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
TXknitter 7/23/2021 5:02:53 PM (No. 854930)
Well #14, remember it was a New Yorker that did more for our border than both Bushes and Perry put together. Just sayin. West has been a Texan since 2014.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Ribicon 7/23/2021 6:03:51 PM (No. 854978)
Gov. Dolittle announced his classically Republican slow-walk border push 5 weeks ago (around the time when Col. West said he wanted to run for governor, curious timing), so that's 2 arrests per week. The jail has a capacity of 950. Minus the 10 already there, that jail will be full in 9 years. Meanwhile, the Newcomers are streaming in by the hundreds of thousands, and the buses roll unimpeded through the Lone Star State en route to wherever they please to go. Some leadership. I'd have them on aircraft straight back to the southernmost end of Mexico. They have no right to be here, tell the feds to enforce their law if they like.
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#8 Remember when Obola was offering people something like $3000 a month to take in these families ? It's all about the government funding.
All this daily hammering about the vaccine and scare tactics, but illegals aren't tested and spreading COVID and whatever else.
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