As reported by One News Now over the weekend, Greg Abbott – the Republican governor of Texas – said he intends to use state funds to build a barrier in an effort to stem the tide of illegal immigrants who have poured across the U.S.-Mexico border since Joe Biden took office.
“The influx across the border is out of control, and the Biden administration has shown that it is not going to step up and do its job,” Abbott told Breitbart Texas after making his announcement. “And amidst reports of even more people coming in across the border, we know we have to step up and do more.”
Art Arthur is a resident fellow in law and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies, which describes Texas as “the epicenter of the illegal immigration crisis.” He says while the state of Texas has the ability to erect barriers, there are a number of environmental hurdles that have to be cleared before the state would be able to do so.
“In federal law, there are waivers for the Department of Homeland Security when it comes to erecting barriers along the border,” he explains. “Unfortunately, the state of Texas does not have those waivers available to it – and groups have come forward to say that they would in fact attempt to block border wall construction in Texas.”
Arthur warns the lawsuits could slow, if not completely stop, the Texas wall construction.
There’s also the legal challenge posed by claiming land via eminent domain, according to a senior fellow with the Migration Policy Institute.
“In all situations,” Muzaffar Chishti told KWTX-TV, “whether the federal government [builds a border wall] or the state government, eminent domain uses a power that is subject to a lot of resistance – and he [Governor Abbott] will meet that resistance.”
In a move that angered Abbott and other Republicans, Biden – in one of his first acts as president – paused federal construction of the border wall started by former President Donald Trump.
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
“groups have come forward to say that they would in fact attempt to block border wall construction in Texas.”
Why would ANY U.S. citizen want to block the border wall?
Maybe these groups are the traitorous Democrat Party’s illegal immigrants.
No doubt
AND How is the FLOOD OF illegals coming into our nation, leaving behind LOTS OF TRASH< and committing lots of crimes NOT ALSO AN 'Environmental concern"????
Of course the Federal Government will attempt to block construction of the wall by Governor Abbott, as Biden is a traitor to our Country.
If i was abbot, i’ go ahead and BUILD IT, then Ask for forgiveness LATER…
In addition to having sufficient TX Rangers to insure security on “both sides” of the jobsites; I’d insist that ALL the non-felon workers exercise their newly clarified 2nd Amendment right to bear arms while on the jobsites in order to have backup for the Rangers if needed. I’d expect that the 100s of workers would have arms and expertise of proper type to be a formidable deterrent to both the cartels on one side and the liberal idiots on the other.
Heck, make ‘exercising their 2a’ a REQUIREMENT OF THE JOB!
The founding of America was difficult—but look at what it became.
So, an immigration attorney thinks the Governor can’t build the border wall in his State. Anyone surprised? Build that wall governor, and protect it with the Texas National Guard if needed.
HAVE the state national guard BUILD the wall.. with help from the navy seabees.
I don’t think a governor can do this legally but I would love to be wrong. What we need to do is elect Abbott as president and watch the wall go up.
We have good choices for 2024. Trump, DeSantis, Abbott. Now, if we only had fair and honest elections.
BUT why CAN’T a state governor, PROTECT HIS OWN STATE’s border??
The Sovereign Several States can do whatever is needed to protect their citizenry from invasion. What TX is experiencing is a literal invasion of their Sovereign Territory. Although there is a precedence for National Border Protection being a Federal responsibility, there is no Constitutional restriction on a Sovereign State doing what needs to be done.
Art Arthur is a leftist POS and is pandering to the pukes who support his insanity. We need to turn loose the sh*t eating dogs on this POS (PieceOfSh*t).
Thinking on this more, i saw a scene in the Dan Aykroyd film Coneheads, where that doufus of an agent Gorman Seedling, proposed putting neck collars on those we deport, then burying a THICK wire all along the border. SO IF one who wore the collar passed over it.. BLAMMO, it would go off… NOW i loved that idea…