Guest Post by Tony Cox
Governor Greg Abbott’s feud with US President Joe Biden might entertain voters, but it won’t stem the tide of illegal migrants
Many of the beleaguered Americans who have watched their country being overrun for decades by never-ending streams of illegal aliens were cheered up by the latest salvo in Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s border-security feud with US President Joe Biden.
It’s easy to see why. Watching the Biden administration wave in record flows of lawless migrants – with total disregard for the harms caused to American citizens – is painful, so seeing Abbott defy the federal government is soothing. Two days after the US Supreme Court upheld the federal government’s right to dismantle border barriers installed by Texas National Guard soldiers, the governor declared on Wednesday that the state’s right to self-defense “supersedes” all federal laws, so he will continue fighting the “invasion.”
The Republican governor insisted that because the Biden administration shirked its constitutional duty to defend US states against foreign invaders, Texas is filling the void to protect its own citizens. Therefore, the state troops will keep working to block the immigrant influx, regardless of what the Supreme Court says.
Republican politicians – such as US Representatives Clay Higgins and Chip Roy, Senator Ted Cruz, and Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders – cheered on Abbott’s move. Former President Donald Trump, the leading Republican candidate to face Biden in this year’s presidential election, said Texas “must be given full support to repel the invasion.” He encouraged other governors to deploy their National Guard troops to help secure the border.
Sadly, the importation of millions of illegal aliens will continue to be forced on Americans, regardless of political stunts and regardless of whether the red team or the blue team is in charge. The trend has certainly gotten far worse under Biden, but Republicans have campaigned on the immigration issue for decades without taking the obvious steps needed to secure the border.
Case in point: Republicans controlled both houses of Congress when Trump took office in 2017, but the border wall that he promised was never built. There were no mass deportations of illegal aliens. Nor were there mass arrests of the traitorous employers who enable the influx by hiring people who can’t legally work in the US. Taxpayers were forced to continue footing the bill, as always.
That’s the ruling-class expectation for law-abiding citizens: Work hard and shut up while paying for us to undercut your wages and make your communities more crowded and less safe. Those who whimper too loudly are branded with the scarlet R-word (racist).
That same ruling class will make sure that Abbott’s border maneuverings have no significant effect. The Biden administration has fought much harder to block the state’s security measures than to police the border. Despite claiming that it doesn’t have enough border agents to secure the border, the administration had plenty of manpower to rip out the concertina wire that Texas troops were using to seal off high-traffic crossing points. When Texas put floating barriers in the Rio Grande River, the administration sued the state, claiming that Abbott was endangering migrants.
The Texas National Guard has seized control of a park at a key crossing point, but Biden can simply federalize those troops to get his way, as some Democrat politicians have already suggested. He wants to ensure that Border Patrol agents can do their important work of removing the state barriers to avoid inconveniencing the immigrants who flout US law.
Biden has greased the invasion skids like no president before him. Nearly 2.48 million illegal aliens were encountered by Border Patrol agents in the government’s latest fiscal year, which ended on September 30, and there was an all-time high of more than 300,000 last month alone.
Those who are ‘encountered’ aren’t turned back. The administration has released millions of illegal immigrants and bogus ‘asylum seekers’ into the country, ostensibly to await court hearings. Those hearings won’t happen for years, or even decades, and many immigrants will simply skip them when their court date finally arrives. Millions more have come through the border as ‘gotaways’, without being ‘processed’ by the Border Patrol.
It’s no coincidence that the surge in border traffic has been accompanied by increases in child trafficking and drug trafficking. Fentanyl transported across the border by drug cartels is killing thousands of Americans every month. More than 112,000 Americans died from drug overdoses between May 2022 and May 2023, primarily from fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. At the same time, there has been a 56-fold increase in the number of Border Patrol encounters with people who had been flagged on the US terrorist watch list.
The situation has gotten so bad that Americans of all political stripes and demographic categories see it as not merely a crisis, but an invasion. A Rasmussen Reports poll released this month showed that nearly two-thirds of US voters – including 55% of Democrats – agree that the country is under invasion.
But even if Biden allows the Texas border initiative to continue, rather than forcibly breaking it up, the criminals who traffic immigrants to the US will have plenty of soft pathways still available to exploit. Many of the immigrants detained by Texas troops are reportedly just being turned over to the Border Patrol.
Abbott also has made headlines by sending busloads of illegal immigrants to Democrat-controlled cities, such as New York and Chicago. Republicans have celebrated this tactic, as it forces pro-immigration virtue signalers to get a real taste of the crisis. New York Mayor Eric Adams was so flustered that he claimed the migrant influx will “destroy” America’s largest city.
The problem is, although this is fun to watch, it’s a distraction from the fact that the border remains wide open, and shifting the consequences around the country isn’t a victory. Confuse, divide, conquer. Lather, rinse, repeat.
In any case, Texas has no legal authority to deport the millions of illegal aliens coming across the border or those already in the state. And if it did have the power to do so? Both major political parties have already demonstrated that they have no intention of removing the cheap labor favored by their donors.
The Texas-Washington DC tensions may be eased if Biden is able to cut a deal with Republican lawmakers to beef up border security. He’s seeking to trade some tough-sounding (but ineffectual) immigration measures to get Republicans to approve more than $60 billion in additional funding for another disastrous Washington project: The Ukraine proxy war.
The longer-term goal is to finally achieve the ruling-class dream of “comprehensive immigration reform,” which basically means amnesty for millions of illegal aliens already here and some fake gestures on border security.
Law-abiding citizens will continue to suffer the consequences and incur the costs, and their votes will be disenfranchised over time. Short of armed rebellion or the secession of border states (no chance), the show will go on.
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Congress has a new bill pending to rename the Rio Grande.
Rubicon.
Red Line River – maybe if it were filled with blood.
soon.
The Red lies between me and Texas and it’s more of an orange in its present condition.
More like the river Styx
Keep 4 coins in your pockets in case your friend is broke. Nobody rides for free across the Styx.
Bailey Bridge Crossing
Everything is a distraction. Why are we still discussing Biden as if he makes any decisions? These puppets names are irrelevant. We need real names who is really calling the shots on the border.
I’ll bet if you turn over enough rocks Eric Holder will slither out eventually…
…attached to Valerie Jarrett.
The Podesta brothers!!!!…. Evil-ass s.o.b’s
The #1 avenue for crossing is the Catholic church. They have centuries of experience across the world doing this, and an actual reason – the Feds pay them to handle it and the church needs it to pay off their settlements for the pedophile priests they shuffle across the planet.
The progressive evangelicals are #2, in bed with their Chosenite brethren. Their stated good intentions are what the rank & file believe – the Chosenites are doing it for their usual Marxist reasons for chaos – to benefit from it.
I remember watching Abbot kissing the wailing wall in a beanie – so he is pledged as a Chosenite tool – thus the likely reason for this is further escalation of divisive issues, a standard Chosenite tool for further wealth extraction from the host country.
It’s ALL scripted if it makes it into the MSM cycle – but I guess people are more concerned with football and various shows about wives of rich men.
Trump already failed to re-establish a border – do not look to him for a change if he returns as President. All cattle/no hat where the border is concerned. You can’t make it out of steel – people just rent a gas powered chop saw and cut through it. Or cut a window using a torch.
We will have to deal with all of this at the local level, when these bands of illegals start to work together as the criminal cartels do. Everything else has been corrupted and simply cannot be relied on. Demons walk the land in within many, causing mischief and harm. There is only one way to handle demonic things, and it isn’t to let them grope your wife or daughter then pray for them.
Its the Kalergi plan. The invasion is being orchestrated by a certain group of ethno-religious people whose name cannot be mentioned. This group makes up about 80% of the top of Biden’s cabinet, and this same group did 9/11.
Unfortunately this is just the elites walking the dog and then yelling squirrel to screw with us hounds.
Haven’t heard anything lately on the MSM about Epstein’s list, Biden crime family, farmer riots in the EU or any of the other shit they don’t want us looking at too closely. The Border is now the news cycle…till they get the FF finalized.
You can trust the Republicans because they’re not Democrats….reeeee
That picture of those 3 presidents kind of writes its own jokes.
A fag, a bisexual, and a pervert walk into the bar at Epstein Island…
If I were to make a long bet it would be that the endgame of this scene is amnesty.
The rinos and their uniparty pinko democrats have been pushing to formalize amnesty like clockwork but have yet to seal the deal. Remember the “dreamers”? Where did they all go?
Trump made this difficult but not impossible and now that they have imported another 20 million while Biden has been drooling, they can spring a “deal” of lotsa fedbucks going to border states (and NGOs to facilitate ‘cultural integration’ and ‘job training’ and ‘English lessons’ etc) so they can easily move the gushing guac across the rio into a more orderly process that integrates into the amnesty and family reunification culture that already drives chain migration and birthright replacement.
Trump will “win” so he can lube up all the deplorables to receive their demographic fisting once and for all. He may even get his wall. But it’s going to come at the price of amnesty.
The globohomo lottery will codify the official browning TPTB have been slobbering over for years.
The programming has made this already a foregone conclusion and it’s hard to argue with the demos given Texas is 40% white if that and the national numbers in birth rates are worse.
They can only “fix this disaster at the border” if they create 40 million brown citizens. This has always been the core of the “two sides of the isle”.
They will be gentle by “phasing” it over some arbitrary time period designed to make everyone’s eyes glaze over but the fist is coming.
So is the Super Bowl.
Thats the deal. You don’t like it, too bad it’s already been made and if anyone gets spicy over it the entire fedgov apparatus is poised to unperson you and as Covid proved, personal economics are everything.
The people will go along because as fired up as they are most are still paperwork American enthusiasts who just don’t want their replacement to be “illegal”.
NAILED IT !
That’s how Reagan did it!
The endgame has ALWAYS been amnesty. Democrats are quite open about it and republicans support it quietly. Remember the Gang of 8 when Rubio, the rising star of the republicans, flamed out because he followed McLame & Lindsey girl.
Amnesty 2026 regardless which squirrel is in the WH.
Off topic but today is D-Day for the WHO’s World Pandemic Treaty. It’s final draft version had to pass through committee by CoB today with unanimous support or it is dead in the water. If it does not pass through committee, the May vote becomes just a formal declaration of its failure.
Videos had been circulating of a November Q&A committee session where a Gulf State member was positioning a WHO representative to clearly state for the record that the Jan 27th date is a “drop dead” date for the treaty. The implication is that many states will allow the treaty to die in committee rather than openly vote to oppose it come May.
We shall see. All that is going on now is dependent upon this WHO treaty passing so it gives the pretext for martial law, gun confiscation, white depopulation through vaccine mandates, digital IDs and currency, and replacement of the white population. There is a 60 day lag between SOFR blowout and the “pandemic” needed to shut down consumer spending to quell the hyperinflation produced by all the money printing needed to get SOFR back under control.
Pandemics are just monetary policy by other means. You need to watch the SOFR to determine when they will hit us with the next “pandemic”. And it will be a pandemic of propaganda to get you go along to get along.
SOFR chart.
https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/reference-rates/sofr
Note Sep 17 2019 SOFR blowout and Event 201 one month later. One month after Event 201 videos begin to emerge of Chinese dying on Wuhan streets of “mystery” lung infection. About one month after that WHO declares world health emergency. All the while Mnunchin is furiously printing trillions in free money for the banks. Greatest scam in world history.
Thanks Ice….ever heard of Holocaust Remembrance Day?…….that’s today also……
I just don’t remember such a thing……
Yeah, I remember the real holocaust where 3.5 million Serbians were rounded up by the Croats, lined up along the edge of freshly dug ditches, and shot in their backs.
There are no museums to these 3.5 million Serbians.
I like asking people if they heard of the Holodomor…..might as well be speaking chinese……..
4 to 7 million Ukies starved to death to feed all those hungry urban Kazhars from the communist party.
To the elite, drop dead dates are nothing more than a line in the sand that can be moved at their discretion.
It’s an illegal alien drama, not a “migrant” drama.
True enough. Words have meaning.
Always.
It’s an illegal alien invader drama.
Lloyd Bridges in 1993 as Biden 2021-2023
Love Lloyd Bridges, great career and one of the nicest people ever
Poor New York Mayor Eric Adams. He doesn’t realize it was Mayor DeBlasio that put the final nail in the coffin of what used to be called New York City. His job is to wail over the coffin like the good bereaved wife.
Based on things Abbott has said in the past, This may be a distraction, but, Abbott may have seen the light and may be genuine in this event as this is blatant TREASON by this corrupt system which at some point may necessitate as many true Patriots wander to the southern border to assist in this Alamo moment.
This is already an Historic Moment for this country.
NEVER before has a corrupt government defied their own nations national security in favor of a UN/WEF sanctioned plan to repopulate an entire nation with foreigners.
Really?
How many Muslims immigrated “legally” to the FUSA during “the war on terror”?
Remember the Patriots who were killed and maimed, countless lives ruined, 500k Iraqi children dead (“worth it”) and destroyed futures, next time you go shoeless into your freedom loving hands-up-don’t-shoot stance under the billion dollar L3 scanner. That’s after you present your Real ID to the monkey in blue counting down his fedgov pension vesting schedule.
The “border” theater is even odds whether it’s a Trump shoehorn for more such freedumbs or an inter-party scrum within the uniparty to find a face-saving way to mothball Biden without spilling the systemic corruption and treason.
I want to be wrong in so many ways but I’m also past the point of believing there are white hats riding in on donkeys or elephants or tanks.
I’ve seen too many acts of this tragedy play already.
I like your spirit tho. No sarc. We will be called to find that spirit for whatever comes next and optimism is still important for many along that continuum of globohomo vs reality to get to whatever the other side of this particular scene ends up being.
I remember distinctly that the Republicans along with Trump sealed the border and built the WALL and the Mexicans paid for it. RIGHT?
The Mexicans will pay through their income taxes as legal residents here when they are granted amnesty. Does that count as a win?
They’ll continue to work for cash until cash is turned into CBDCs
Hell no that doesn’t count as a win. They have so many kids they won’t pay a dime. In fact they’ll be draining the treasury through the Earned Income Child Tax Credit. They get thousands of dollars from the treasury for no other reason than claiming children on their taxes. Many make the number up and collect 10’s of thousands. They then send the money back to their country knowing nothing will ever happen to them. MAAAAARrrrrroooooooooonnn. That’s while they’re bankrupting hospitals, schools, etc.
Who will take the credit in a most boastful way? “Mine is the greatest amnesty ever known to our friends south of he border.”
I think Bannon became chief of the operation and took the money and ran.
What about Mexico-California border?
‘We the People’ Convoy Gains Momentum Despite Facebook Censorship – News of Border Convoy Spreads on Twitter-X – Over 10,000 are Expected to Join (AUDIO)
Will be a futile effort at best, and quite possibly a setup similar to January 6.
Of COURSE ALL the three letter agencies will be there and running ops. Thats expected.
But, the truly ONLY effective method of ending the rule of the parasite class is thru mass disobedience and defiance. Truckers hold the keys to the country. If they would organize and shut down all movement of goods, just how long do you think the ‘government’ would last???
The govt DOESN’T have enough people to be able to fill those truck and keep materials moving. ALL shipping would soon halt, again, as docks became jammed with containers, overnight. Cities would erupt in 3 – 5 days as fuel and groceries ran out. The foreign men coming into the country are military, NOT truck drivers.
Should truckers unite and stop ALL truck movements in DC alone, would be enough to make those asswipes back off. YES, the three letters ARE going to arrest and jail people like they already have. But tough talk about the tree of liberty and hiding at home isn’t defending squat.
Showing up to a protest then going home after a couple days is futile.
In fact the truckers wouldn’t have to go to these sites at all. Just stay home and take your two weeks holiday, across the nation all at the same time. Nothing the three letters could do about that, could they??
Trouble is there is plenty of talk but no balls to actually stand in defiance. No need for shooting, or destroying property, which is what the scum govt and parasites in DC want. All thats required is to salute. FU, and refuse to obey.
ALL these politicals, ngo’s etc know that without trucks, they’ll dry up and die. They are terrified of their potential to end their rule.
What will happen?? A few truckers will go, after a few days they’ll all go back to work. And the brave souls who advocate for shooting all those crossing the river will point fingers and scream like banshees that it was all futile, and a few got arrested. proof positive.
Its theatre as usual.
¿Estás tomando el autobús a Eagle Pass para la manifestación?
While all eyes are on the southern border, who is watching the northern one??
Or CA , NM , AZ ?
China.
I decided to try the only non “fake news” network by pulling up FAUX. I’m still finding no definitive non “fake news” that troops from other states are on the ground at Eagle Pass. The vid is from FAUX and time stamped today. All I get out of it is DeSantis is “willing” to send his guard.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6345725471112
“must be given full support to repel the invasion.”
Former President Donald
Trumpdrumpf, the leading Republican candidate to face Biden in this year’s presidential election, said Texas….Yet ANOTHER, in a never ending series of FOLLYwood False Flag productions.
Abbott stated, “This will continue til this time next year”. Assume he really means influx of migrants.
PSA: The northern border is wide open and longer than the southern one.
The magician will always have you watch his right hand while he tricks you with his left. Same with the thief.