Gov. Greg Abbott: Texas Will Secure the Border, and the Biden Administration Will Pay for It’
(CNSNews.com) – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday that he has deployed 1,000 Department of Public Safety troops and the National Guard to the southern border to secure it from illegal aliens coming across.
During an appearance on Fox News’s “Red State Trailblazers” town hall event in Orlando, Fla., which featured a host of Republican governors, host Laura Ingraham asked Abbott what his message is to the Biden administration about the number of COVID-positive migrants being released into communities.
“So the COVID-released migrants is one challenge but I gotta tell you this. The Biden first 100 days has been very successful for the cartels, for the drug smugglers, for the human traffickers who are profiteering off of all the migrants who come across the border illegally,” Abbott said.
“Because so many migrants are coming across the border illegally, what it means is that the Border Patrol officers are fully occupying processing all of these migrants, and that leaves open miles of border that the cartels can come across. That's why I launched what is called Operation Lone Star,” he said.
“We have deployed 1,000 department of public safety troops as well as National Guard to our border to secure our border from the people coming across. So here's what we want to do. The deal I want to cut is, Texas will secure the border, and the Biden administration will pay for it,” the governor said.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has said she will not take migrant children that the federal government tries to place in her state, Ingraham pointed out.
“You're getting pushback from the usual groups on that. Republicans are heartless. They don't care about the kids. They don't care about the needs of the greater country. Your response,” Ingraham asked Reynolds.
“I push back and say this administration is heartless. They created this crisis at the border. They are putting the children at risk by the policies that they’ve eliminated that we know were working. I'm the governor of Iowa and my number one responsibility is to protect the health and safety Iowans, and it would be irresponsible for me not to be at the forefront of every decision I make,” Reynolds said.
Biden: ‘We Have Gotten Control’ of the Border
(CNSNews.com) – President Joe Biden said Friday that the U.S. has gotten control of the U.S.-Mexico border and apprehensions are “way down now.”
When asked whether what’s happening at the border is a crisis, Biden told NBC’s “Today Show” that “it is getting urgent action now. For example, a month ago, we had thousands of young kids in custody in places they shouldn't be, and controlled by the Border Patrol. We have now cut that down dramatically.
“Hey, look, here's what happened, Craig. The failure to have a real transition, the two departments that didn't -- you give us access to virtually anything were the immigration, and the Defense Department. So we didn't find out they had fired a whole lot of people that they were understaffed considerably,” he said.
NBC’s Craig Melvin pointed out that in April alone, 170,000 migrants were arrested at the border – a 20-year record.
“There are 22,000 unaccompanied children in our country right now. That's a record. That sounds to most folks like a crisis,” Melvin said.
“It's way down now. We have gotten control. For example, they didn't plan for, which it comes every year this flow, … they didn't have the beds that were available. They didn't plan for the overflow,” the president said.
“They didn't plan for the Department of Health and Human Services to have places to take the kid from the Border Patrol and put them in beds where there's security and there were people that can take care of them. So there's a significant change right now, significant change in the circumstances for children coming to and at the border,” he added.
Melvin noted that the president pledged during his campaign to reunite hundreds of children who were separated from their parents by the Trump administration.
“According to our reporting, and in your first 100 days, not one child has been reunited? How is that?” Melvin asked.
“I don't think that's true. That could be. What we have done is we have united children with their families as they have come across the border, but one of the things is we don't know yet where those kids are. We're trying like hell to figure out what happened. It's almost like being a sleuth, and we're still continuing to try like hell to figure out where they are,” Biden said.
“You have said to migrants, don't come. You're very clear. Would you tell parents in Central America and Mexico, don't send your kids?” Melvin asked.
“Absolutely,” the president said. “And look, here's the deal –“
“So don't send your kids. That's the message,” Melvin said.
“Do not send your kids, period. They're in jeopardy making that thousand-mile trek. So what we're doing now is we're going back to those countries in question where most of them are coming from and saying look, you can apply from your country. You don't have to make this trek,” Biden said.
George W. Bush Lobbies Republicans to Work with Joe Biden on Amnesty for Illegal Aliens
Former President George W. Bush is lobbying House and Senate Republicans to work with President Joe Biden on amnesty for illegal aliens.
In an interview with the Dispatch Podcast, Bush said Biden and Republicans ought to strike a deal to provide amnesty, at the least, to illegal aliens enrolled in or eligible for former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
“I think piecemeal probably makes sense and I think the president, if I could be so bold, is calling Republicans like-minded and saying ‘Let’s see if we can get something done,'” Bush said.
“Comprehensive may be too big of a reach right now,” Bush continued. “Like if they can get DACA done with some kind of border enhancement, you know plans to give Republicans comfort in voting for the bill, then all of the sudden there’s confidence to be gained.”
The statements come as Bush helps lead a charge among a Democrat-Republican coalition, big business interests, and the open borders lobby to provide amnesty to potentially millions of illegal aliens — a plan to which Biden gave a resounding endorsement in his first address to Congress last week.
In the address, Biden touted his amnesty for 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the United States while also urging Congress to pass two other amnesties: One for potentially 4.4 million illegal aliens and another for 2.1 million illegal aliens working on farms.
Bush, in recent weeks, revealed he is working the Koch network — run by the billionaire Koch brothers estate — to help Biden pass amnesty for illegal aliens. Not passing amnesty, Bush previously said, was his biggest disappointment as president.
The push comes as a survey from the pro-migration, Koch-funded Cato Institute reveals the extent to which Bush is out of step with Republican and conservative voters, as well as the majority of Americans.
The survey found 6-in-10 Americans want less overall immigration to the U.S., including 75 percent of Republicans and 76 percent of conservatives. Similarly, the survey showed 72 percent of Americans would prefer less immigration to the U.S. and more public benefits over more immigration and less public benefits.
Likewise, the survey confirmed opposing birthright citizenship is a mainstream Republican-held position.
In exclusive statements to Breitbart News, Republican staffers on Capitol Hill described Bush as an irrelevant globalist who does not represent the GOP’s base of voters or the majority of those in elected office.
“Republicans are well aware that his presidency was a national disaster on this issue as he failed to act when needed. Bush immigration policy has no impact today other than a reference on what not to do,” one House GOP aide said.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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