Texas Governor Issues Disaster Declaration in Response to Border Crisis
(CNSNews.com) - On June 1, the same day Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas formally ended President Trump's remain-in-Mexico policy, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration for his state's southern border.
"The Governor is authorizing the use of all necessary and available state and local resources to protect landowners in these counties from trespassers and the damage they cause to private property," said a news release from Abbott's office.
"The Governor has also directed the Texas Department of Public Safety to enforce all federal and state criminal laws, including criminal trespassing, smuggling, and human trafficking. The Governor directed the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to take all necessary steps to discontinue state licensure of any child care facility under a contract with the federal government that shelters or detains unlawful immigrants.
The declaration directs authorities to give counties the flexibility they need to establish more detention facilities or to expand the capacity of existing facilities. In other words, Texas is making room for the drug and human smugglers and trespassers it aims to arrest.
"President Biden's open-border policies have paved the way for dangerous gangs and cartels, human traffickers, and deadly drugs like fentanyl to pour into our communities," said Governor Abbott:
Meanwhile, landowners along the border are seeing their property damaged and vandalized on a daily basis while the Biden Administration does nothing to protect them.
Texas continues to step up to confront the border crisis in the federal government's absence, but more must be done. By declaring a state of disaster in these counties, Texas will have more resources and strategies at our disposal to protect landowners and enforce all federal and state laws to combat criminal activities stemming from the border crisis.
Working together with local law enforcement, the state will continue to take robust and meaningful action to keep our communities safe.
You can read the full disaster declaration here:
Terminate Trump's MPP
In a seven-page memo released on Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary said he has decided that President Trump's Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) that required asylum seekers to remain in Mexico pending adjudication of their immigration claims "is no longer a necessary or viable tool for the Department."
Mayorkas directed DHS personnel to “take all appropriate actions to terminate MPP,” after finding that MPP “had mixed effectiveness in achieving several of its central goals.”
“I have determined that MPP does not adequately or sustainably enhance border management in such a way as to justify the program’s extensive operational burdens and other shortfalls.” Mayorkas also said preserving MPP "would not be consistent with this Administration’s vision and values."
He noted that while MPP was in effect, border crossings fluctuated. “Moreover, in making my assessment, I share the belief that we can only manage migration in an effective, responsible and durable manner if we approach the issue comprehensively, looking well beyond our own borders.”
Reacting to the MPP termination on Tuesday night, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) told Fox News's Laura Ingraham that reversing Trump's policies, which discouraged illegal immigration, has produced an "out-of-control" situation.
Look at what President Trump did. I mean, he started building the wall, but he negotiated agreements with Mexico. He negotiated agreements with the northern triangle countries. And it stopped the flow of illegals into the border on mass scale.
If you look at what's happening now, it's completely out of control. And it's not just South and Central America. We have over 150 different countries where people have come across our southern border illegally, including people on the terrorist watch list. And Kamala Harris is directly responsible for it, and she is trying to dump this off on somebody else because she has mismanaged it.
We've invited her down to the border. I've brought members of Congress, probably 100 members of Congress have been down on the Republican side to the border. The Border Patrol agents all tell you the same thing. Remain in Mexico is the biggest thing, but them just putting a flashing light saying the border is open.
They know it's open all across Central America. Kamala Harris needs to go down, see for herself, and then put those policies back in place that were working.
George W. Bush Center: Amnesty for Illegal Aliens ‘Essential’ to Securing Southern Border
Former President George W. Bush’s public policy organization states that amnesty for illegal aliens is “essential” to securing the United States-Mexico border as illegal immigration continues to soar under President Joe Biden’s administration.
In an op-ed for the Dallas Morning News, the George W. Bush Center’s Natalie Gonnella-Platts and Jenny Villatoro write that a massive amnesty for most of the nation’s 11-to-22 million illegal aliens is necessary as part of a broader border security initiative.
“Immigration reform in the United States is essential to assuring that we have a secure and efficient border, a system flexible enough to handle changes in migrant flows, and the capacity to treat each migrant with dignity,” the Bush Center executives continue:
Any comprehensive plan on Central America and immigration reform should address gender inequity and gender-based violence.
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How can anyone be expected to thrive when her day-to-day priority is simply to survive? The United States needs to recognize that gender-based violence and gender inequity drive migration.
The op-ed is part of a larger amnesty coalition where Bush has lobbied Republican lawmakers for months to craft an amnesty for illegal aliens with the Biden administration — including increases to legal immigration levels beyond their already historically high rates.
The lobbying has been in coalition with corporate interests such as the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, the Bloomberg-funded New American Economy, the Texas Association of Business, and taxpayer-funded refugee contractors.
Bush’s plan is merely a revitalization of his highly unpopular “Any Willing Worker” policy from the early 2000s, where his administration sought to open the nation’s borders to millions of illegal aliens willing to take low-wage jobs from Americans while increasing legal immigration to drive down U.S. wages in the labor market.
The amnesty coalition is hugely opposed by Republican voters, polling has shown.
A Rasmussen Reports survey released this week reveals that 83 percent of likely Republican voters support nationwide mandatory E-Verify to ban employers from hiring illegal aliens for U.S. jobs and 72 percent said they oppose amnesty for illegal aliens, including 52 percent who said they are “strongly opposed” to such a plan.
Already, current immigration levels put downward pressure on U.S. wages while redistributing about $500 billion in wealth away from America’s working and middle class and towards employers and new arrivals, research by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has found.
Similarly, peer reviewed research by economist Christoph Albert acknowledges that “as immigrants accept lower wages, they are preferably chosen by firms and therefore have higher job finding rates than natives, consistent with evidence found in U.S. data.” Albert’s research also finds that immigration “raises competition” for native-born Americans in the labor market.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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