Border problem.

Greg Abbott Turns on Fellow Republican Over Border: 'Don't Trust You'​

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has lashed out at a Republican incumbent over policies including the border while reiterating his support for a GOP challenger hoping to remove the state representative from office.

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Abbott said that he does not "trust" state Rep. DeWayne Burns on topics such as controlling illegal immigration "or any issue" while stating he is supporting Burns' Republican primary challenger for Texas' House District 58, Helen Kerwin.


Abbott has received national attention amid his fight for increased border security which has seen the governor challenge the Biden administration and the Supreme Court over the placing of razor wire, as well as deploying thousands of Texas National Guard troops and state police officers to the U.S.-Mexico border.


Writing on X, Burns hit out at suggestions that he does not support stronger border controls, noting that he voted "for every piece of the Border Security plan, including the Governor's initiatives," adding "my vote history shows consistent and unwavering support for securing our border."

The post was in response to a video shared by the Family Empowerment Coalition PAC, who are targeting Texas Republicans who did not support Abbott's school vouchers initiative which would have seen taxpayers' money be used to allow some students to attend private schools.

Burns accused the group of using an "A.I. generated voice without any sources or citations" to attack him for being "weak" on controlling illegal immigration at the border.

In reply, Abbott wrote: "To be clear, I don't trust you on the border or any issue.

"You misrepresent school choice. You masquerade as a Republican but repeatedly vote with Democrats. You even voted with liberal Democrats to reduce criminal sentences. That's why I support Kerwin."

Burns' office has been contacted for comment via email.

Burns was one of 21 Texas Republicans who voted with the Democrats to strip the school voucher program out of an education bill, tanking a policy Abbott had campaigned for several months.

Abbott previously said that he would now be targeting these Republicans by supporting their primary challengers in a bid to oust them from office.

In January, Abbott confirmed his endorsement for Kerwin, a former mayor of Glen Rose who is up against Burns in the March 5 GOP primary.

"Helen will work tirelessly to ensure that every Texas parent has the right to choose the best education for their children, advocate for strong borders, and fight for the conservative principles that make Texas the land of freedom and opportunity," Abbott said.

"Helen is the type of new conservative leader House District 58 needs to ensure an even bigger, better Texas. Please join me in supporting her for State Representative."

Two other groups, AFC Victory Fund and School Freedom Fund, are also targeting the Texas House Republicans who voted against Abbott's school voucher program by endorsing their primary challengers and releasing attack ads across the state.
 
The conspiracy theory that Democrats will benefit from allowing unfettered immigration into the country and they will immediately become lifelong Democrats has never shared a meal and talked politics with a first generation family.

This is coming from a guy with a Hungarian grandmother, Mexican and Lebanese uncles. Korean in-laws, and an Ethiopian ex-wife;

I’ve recently worked jobs were under Armenian, Russian; Vietnamese and Filipino supervisors and I can confirm that recent first generation immigrants don’t believe in blind loyalty to either political party.

They don’t buy into the horse manure.
 

Texas AG Paxton moves to shut down El Paso’s Annunciation House, alleging migrant aid is ‘human smuggling’​

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is seeking to shut down Annunciation House, an El Paso Catholic nonprofit organization that has provided shelter and other services to migrants and immigrants for decades.


“The chaos at the southern border has created an environment where (nongovernmental organizations), funded with taxpayer money from the Biden administration, facilitate astonishing horrors including human smuggling,” Paxton said in a statement Tuesday. “While the federal government perpetuates the lawlessness destroying this country, my office works day in and day out to hold these organizations responsible for worsening illegal immigration.”

Ruben Garcia, the founder and director of Annunciation House, denounced the attorney general’s action in a statement Tuesday night.

“The attorney general’s illegal, immoral and anti-faith position to shut down Annunciation

House is unfounded,” Garcia said.

He had raised concerns last year that Texas’ crackdown on immigration could imperil the work of church-based groups on immigration.

“The church is at risk because the volunteers are asking themselves, ‘If I feed someone who’s unprocessed, if I give someone a blanket who’s unprocessed, if I help them get off the street, am I liable to be prosecuted for that?’” Garcia told a bipartisan delegation of U.S. senators visiting El Paso in January 2023. “Shame on us, that on this day, this is even being brought up in the United States.”


On Tuesday, Garcia said his organization provides a vital service, and warned that other organizations could be at risk of actions by Paxton.

“Annunciation House has kept hundreds of thousands of refugees coming through our city off the streets and given them food. The work helps serve our local businesses, our city, and immigration officials to keep people off the streets and give them a shelter while they come through our community,” he said. “If the work that Annunciation House conducts is illegal, so too is the work of our local hospitals, schools, and food banks.”

This month’s actions mark the latest escalation by Texas state officials to assert control over immigration issues along the U.S.-Mexico border.

In court filings, the Texas Attorney General’s Office says Annunciation House also provides assistance to people who enter the country and evade Border Patrol officials, citing a 2023 El Paso Matters article about the nonprofit’s efforts to help migrants apply for asylum.

The state accuses Annunciation House of engaging in “human smuggling” because it provides transportation to migrants.

According to court records, investigators with the Attorney General’s Office went to Annunciation House’s South El Paso office on Feb. 7 and served the agency with a request to examine records related to its operations.

Annunciation House’s received a temporary restraining order the next day from 205th District Court Judge Francisco Dominguez of El Paso that blocked the attorney general from enforcing the order for records.


“Annunciation House wishes to provide you the documents to which you are entitled under law. This will require study and work on our part, and unfortunately litigation as well because it is impossible to comply with your deadline, and we remain concerned about the legality of certain aspects of your request,” Jerome Wesevich, an attorney for Annunciation House, said in a Feb. 8 email to the Attorney General’s Office.

Paxton’s office on Tuesday filed a counter-claim against Annunciation House, seeking to overturn the temporary restraining order and to strip the nonprofit of its right to do business in Texas. The attorney general alleges Annunciation House is violating state law by refusing to turn over the requested records, and should be shut down.

The records sought by Paxton’s office include “documents sufficient to show all services that you provide to aliens, whether in the United States legally or illegally,” and “all documents provided to individual aliens as part of your intake process.”


Dominguez has scheduled a hearing for 1 p.m. Thursday on Annunciation House’s request for a temporary injunction, which is a stronger step than the temporary restraining order he issued earlier this month.

Garcia, a protege of the Catholic nun St. Mother Teresa, founded Annunciation House in 1978. He has been one of the nation’s foremost champions of treating migrants with dignity.

Annunciation House played a key role in reuniting migrant parents and children who were separated by the Trump administration in 2018.
 

Arizona Republicans advance bill legalizing killing migrants on suspicion of trespassing​

Arizona Republicans are advancing a bill that would allow people to legally kill someone accused of attempting to trespass or actively trespassing on their property.

The big picture: The legislation, which is expected to be vetoed if it reaches the state's Democratic governor, would legalize the murder of undocumented immigrants, who often have to cross ranches that sit on the state's border with Mexico.

  • State Rep. Justin Heap (R.) said the bill is intended to close a loophole by which migrants have moved within the U.S., per the Arizona Mirror.
Context: George Alan Kelly, an Arizona rancher, was accused of killing a migrant, Gabriel Cuen Buitimea, walking through his 170-acre property last year, per the Arizona Republic.

  • His trial is set for March 21, per the AP.
What's inside: "Premises" is defined in the bill to mean any property or structure, "occupied or not."

  • Arizona law already allows the use of deadly force against home intruders if deemed necessary for protection.
  • The bill expands the existing doctrine from a home intrusion to a home or property intrusion.
 
Wild what people are doing to get here.

www.nytimes.com

The ‘Luxury Route’ to the U.S. for African Migrants

Colombia’s main airport has become a hub for migrants heading to the U.S. in greater numbers. Some have been stranded for weeks, or forcibly turned back.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

The ‘Luxury Route’ to the U.S. for African Migrants​

Colombia’s main airport has become a hub for migrants heading to the U.S. in greater numbers. Some have been stranded for weeks, or forcibly turned back.

As record numbers of people cross into the United States, the southern border is not the only place where the migration crisis is playing out.

Nearly three thousand miles to the south, inside Colombia’s main international airport, hundreds of African migrants have been pouring in every day, paying traffickers roughly $10,000 for flight packages they hope will help them reach the United States.

The surge of African migrants in the Bogotá airport, which began last year, is a vivid example of the impact of one of the largest global movements of people in decades and how it is shifting migration patterns.

With some African countries confronting economic crisis and political upheaval, and Europe cracking down on immigration, many more Africans are making the far longer journey to the U.S.

They are bound for Nicaragua, the only country in Central America where citizens from many African nations — and from Haiti, Cuba and Venezuela — can enter without a visa. Experts say the country’s president, Daniel Ortega, loosened visa requirements in recent years to compel the United States to lift sanctions on his authoritarian government.
 

Trump echoes Nazi propaganda and pushes lie that ‘no one speaks languages’ of migrants in wild border speech​


Donald Trump falsely claimed that “nobody speaks the languages” of migrants crossing the US’s southern border, in another wild and rambling campaign speech, in which he also echoed his previous remarks that were criticized as being similar to Nazi propaganda.

Both Mr Trump and President Joe Biden held dueling campaign trips to the southern border on Thursday in an attempt to seize the narrative around immigration.


The former president, speaking from Eagle Pass, Texas, wildly claimed that there were “millions of people from places unknown” coming into the US that “don’t speak languages”.

“Everybody I speak to says how horrible it is, nobody can explain to me how allowing millions of people from places unknown, from countries unknown, who don’t speak languages,” he said.

“We have languages coming into our country, nobody that speaks those languages. They’re truly foreign languages. Nobody speaks them.”

The national language of Mexico is Spanish. Census figures from 2019 showed that there were almost 42 million people that speak Spanish in US homes.

Mr Trump’s language lies follow what border officials have signaled is a growing number of people crossing the US-Mexico border, with Republican states moving thousands of migrants into Democratic-led cities.

Elsewhere in his remarks on Thursday the former president slammed what he tried to claim is the “Joe Biden invasion”, claiming it has led to a surge in “migrant crime” and directly linking it to the death of Georgia college student Laken Hope Riley.

He also claimed that jails and mental institutions around the world are being emptied into the US, saying: “They’re coming from jails, and they’re coming from prisons, and they’re coming from mental institutions, and they’re coming from insane asylums, and they’re terrorists.”

The comments added a new twist to his previous “poisoning the blood” remarks in December that were called out for echoing Nazi rhetoric.

At the time, the former president said: “They’re poisoning the blood of the country. That’s what they’ve done … They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world. Not just in South America.

“Not just the three or four countries we think about. But all over the world they’re coming into our country, from Africa, from Asia.”

Following Mr Trumps speech on Thursday, even Fox News made sure to fact check some of what he had said, with anchor Neil Cavuto saying: “When you hear it from Donald about the 2020 election and how he got millions of more votes -- in fact, he did get millions of more votes [than 2016].

“He still lost that election. That is not in doubt anymore.”
 
The CBP hasn’t “admitted” anything in the language claiming the FOIA exemption.

Exception (b)(7)(E) has been applied to the identifying information for air ports of entry, which, if disclosed would reveal information about the relative number of individuals arriving, and thus resources expended at particular airports which would, either standing alone or combined with other information, reveal operational vulnerabilities that could be exploited by bad actors altering their patterns of conduct, adopting new methods of operation, and taking other countermeasures, thereby undermining CBP’s law enforcement efforts to secure the United States borders.

Is in no way, shape or form that,

Biden Parole Flights Create Security ‘Vulnerabilities’ at U.S. Airports.​


It’s silly and a complete and utter mischaracterization to assert that it is.

It in no way says or admits that the flights themselves have created the security vulnerabilities that might be revealed by disclosure of the evidence.
 
GOGETUMPOKE said:
The information was obtained via a FOIA lawsuit and the CBP has admitted it. Nobody said anything about loving anything. Are you saying this is false?
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Vakarian74 said:
Of course you love an anti immigration think tank.
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Please don't post things from CIS, they are a hate group founded by a self-described white nationalist and eugenist. They also have lost multiple lawsuits disputing their hate group label.

Find other sources to support your position. Thank you.
 
GratefulPoke said:
Please don't post things from CIS, they are a hate group founded by a self-described white nationalist and eugenist. They also have lost multiple lawsuits disputing their hate group label.

Find other sources to support your position. Thank you.
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FFS. They aren’t the only ones reporting on it. It might be helpful if you would compile a list of approved sources that could be referenced on here to avoid the inevitable panty wadding that is sure to take place every single time something is posted that makes you a little anxious. Or….and I’m just spitballing here…maybe think about attacking the claim and not the the source.

Here’s an interview from an NBC affiliate (hate group?) with a former head of Customs and Border protection.

nbcmontana.com

Biden admin flew hundreds of thousands of migrants into US using CBP One app

A new report shows the Biden administration has flown hundreds of thousands of migrants from foreign countries directly into the U.S. on flights using an app.
nbcmontana.com nbcmontana.com

Are you saying this didn’t happen?
 
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GOGETUMPOKE said:
FFS. They aren’t the only ones reporting on it. It might be helpful if you would compile a list of approved sources that could be referenced on here to avoid the inevitable panty wadding that is sure to take place every single time something is posted that makes you a little anxious. Or….and I’m just spitballing here…maybe think about attacking the claim and not the the source.

Here’s an interview from an NBC affiliate (hate group?) with a former head of Customs and Border protection.

nbcmontana.com

Biden admin flew hundreds of thousands of migrants into US using CBP One app

A new report shows the Biden administration has flown hundreds of thousands of migrants from foreign countries directly into the U.S. on flights using an app.
nbcmontana.com nbcmontana.com

Are you saying this didn’t happen?
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Than go get the report from some organization that isn't a hate group. That is a pretty low bar and you are the person who made the decision to use that source in the first place when others existed by your own admission.
 
GratefulPoke said:
Then go get the report from some organization that isn't a hate group. That is a pretty low bar and you are the person who made the decision to use that source in the first place when others existed by your own admission.
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Every single report (NBC,CBS,BLOOMBERG, etc..) that I have seen cites the findings from the Foia request from CIS. But they can’t be quoted on your message board?
 
GOGETUMPOKE said:
Every single report (NBC,CBS,BLOOMBERG, etc..) that I have seen cites the findings from the Foia request from CIS. But they can’t be quoted on your message board?
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They cite the lawsuit by CIS and the premise behind it, but are not the lone source in the majority of those articles--which are about the lawsuit. I can't help you if you refuse to see the difference.

Again--don't post source material from hate groups on this site.
 
Polds4OSU said:
I would wager there are more Americans on welfare who don't know God than immigrants coming across the Southern Border that don't know God
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So poor people can't know God? I'm confused by your statement. Luke 6:20. Looking at his disciples, he (Jesus) said: 'Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God." Psalm 82:3-4. "Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hands of the wicked."
 
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