(The Center Square) – Four governors expressed their continued commitment to secure the southwest border and support of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott at a meeting Monday in Eagle Pass, Texas.
Joining Abbott were governors Kim Reynolds of Iowa, Jim Pillen of Nebraska, Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, and Kristi Noem of South Dakota. They’ve all sent their National Guard troops to Texas to participate in Abbott’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star. In total, troops from 15 states are currently serving in Texas participating in OLS, bbott said.
When all states expressing support for Texas are included, they total 25.
“Half the states in America are banding together to secure a border that President [Joe] Biden has abandoned. … From the northern border to the southern border, governors are coming together to push back against the Biden administration.”
When asked by The Center Square if Abbott knew if this was the first time in Texas history that 25 governors had come together to help secure the border, he replied, “This is the first time I’m aware of. It shows the unity we have in this country among governors. …
“Every state in the United States is a border state. Look at what’s going on in New York. Look at what’s going on in Illinois. They may be Democrat governors and Democrat mayors but they’re fed up as much as Republicans are with the Biden administration and the way that Biden is destroying our states, our cities and our country. Americans will not tolerate it anymore.”
Reynolds said that Iowa “is located at the intersection of two major interstates, and it is a pathway for Mexican cartels and human traffickers to go from Mexico to the Midwest.” Iowa also has seen a 500% increase in the amount of fentanyl being seized, a 100% increase in meth, and drug related deaths have increased by 35%, she said, “and we’re 1,000 miles away from Eagle Pass.”
Pillen said he was “in disbelief” about the misrepresentation by the media and others of the buoys placed in the Rio Grande River to deter illegal border crossings.
“The buoys act as a deterrent,” Pillen said. He also said he couldn’t believe the misrepresentation about those illegally entering the U.S.
“We are fighting the cartels,” he said. “They are trying to kill our kids. That’s one thing we can surely agree on in the United States is our kids? Right?”
“What we’re literally witnessing is a war zone, and it is astonishing to watch it perpetuated by our president,” Noem said. She first sent National Guard troops, she said, because she recognized what was happening “was a war. They are threatening our sovereignty right now. The cartels are out for blood, and they are facilitating the trafficking of our children every day. That’s what I find so shocking is the lack of humanity in these policies. These policies are inhumane of what they’re doing to people and to families.”
The Biden administration has said it’s border policies are more humane than former President Donald Trump’s. The administration also has said the border is secure.
The governors in Eagle Pass Monday disagreed.
Stitt said, “The chaotic scenes at the southern border are a stark reminder of the consequences of disastrous open border policies.” What’s going on “has nothing to do with immigration,” he added. “You don’t have a brain if you don’t think we don’t need to secure our border. The terrorists coming through, the criminals; it’s got to stop.”
All of the governors, except for newly elected Pillen, had sent troops and assistance to support Abbott’s efforts. They did so after he sent an SOS in May requesting help from fellow governors.
The states who’ve so far sent National Guard troops and law enforcement support include Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Idaho, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
All traitorous people involved with this promotion of the illegal immigrants. Needs to be charged, prosecuted and held responsible for their actions.
And NOT just a Hunter Biden cream puff deal.
And as Ron said, ITS TIME WE STARTED USING lethal force, to protect it. Start dropping the bodies!
GOPUSA-, SHOCKING NEW POLL-” IS AMERICA WORTH DEFENDING, DEMOCRATS SAY , NO!
We should have listened to THE SPEECH GIVEN BY Theodore Roosevelt before The KINGHTS OF COLUMBUS IN 1915 when in this speech he said,”… The one absolutely certain way of bringing this Nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a Nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of Squabbling Nationalities,,,,”
Then democrat, SOCIALIST, / COMMUNIST, Former president, Barack H. Obama said this, ” America is, and always will be, A land of IMMIGRANTS.” But he forgot the important part, entering the United States legally, not flooding across Americas open borders.
Does not matter what we do. I’m also all for selected contractors capitalizing on border wall gains, but truth be told nothing is going to stop people from moving around. If people want to come to US, If US citizens want to move anywhere else, nothing we can do will stop them. Didn’t stop us. we nearly wiped out a whole continent of people, but we came any way. We would do well to craft a way to accommodate or way to absorb this influx appropriately and in a way that would be beneficial. We’re Just beating the air (and some getting wealthy). No one will benefit but the wall builders. Much too late to try what some envision as an America circa 1910. We (diverse populations) are joined at the hip. The way of life proposed by some is simply” Gone with the Wind”.
[email protected] – No offence intended. But why is it that this treasonous Democrat Party has encouraged, promoted, supported and protected 8+ million illegal homeless, jobless immigrants into our country and put them up in hotels at taxpayers expense?
Why does this puppet Joe Beijing Biden administration support illegal immigrants with $800.00 a month debit card given to them by this puppet Joe Beijing Biden’s State Debt.? But only offers a one time payment of $700.00 to the U.S. citizens in Hawaii who lost EVERYTHING in the wild fires??
There is legal way to immigrant to the U.S. and there is an illegal way. The disgraceful, corrupt, puppet president Joe Beijing Biden and his administration has chosen the illegal path along with in import of illegal fentanyl which is killing U.S. citizens..
More is coming to Hawaii. Will be massive amounts of support supplied over the next 2-3 years. Problem there is this good-old American “Shock- Doctrine” style assistance coming to that island. Thats where the problem is going to arise. When government agencies hold back those practices, these cats are going to yell loud foul. Of course, no one, I mean no print will exist about this going (it’s what we do, we’re here to help. just sign here and sign there and you’ll be doing yourself a favor, we’ll even throw in some *****} on. But many sitting in the wings waiting to capitalize on the tragic event in Hawaii. Truth be told, if this crowd is not allowed to set up this style assistance, I mean where big money can be made by speculators, then we’ll hear a lot more about this. It’s absurd to think US government will not step up and assist these American citizens. Hopefully the next leadership will not adopt the attitude US displayed in 2017 during events in the Islands at near Florida. Thats what we should be worried about. We Americans know how to make that money, regardless of who it hurts.
SO what, just ignore our laws, our borders, and just let ANYONE COME IN??
if the president biden doesn’t have to obey the supreme court or the law. why should republican governors?? republican governors
deport all illegals now . Texas should just close the border. Imagine if the republican governor use the national guard to check citizenship of people driving into the state.
AND IF the courts have no power to ENFORCE THE LAWS they adjudge are right, then WHY DO THEY ADJUDGE THEM?
Wikipedia,
The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.
Cloward and Piven were both professors at the Columbia University School of Social Work. The strategy was outlined in a May 1966 article in the liberal magazine The Nation titled “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty”.[1]
The two stated that many Americans who were eligible for welfare were not receiving benefits, and that a welfare enrollment drive would strain local budgets, precipitating a crisis at the state and local levels that would be a wake-up call for the federal government, particularly the Democratic Party. There would also be side consequences of this strategy, according to Cloward and Piven. These would include: easing the plight of the poor in the short-term (through their participation in the welfare system); shoring up support for the national Democratic Party-then splintered by pluralistic interests (through its cultivation of poor and minority constituencies by implementing a national “solution” to poverty); and relieving local governments of the financially and politically onerous burdens of public welfare (through a national “solution” to poverty).[1]
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY has a poem, which says, Give us YOUR POOR, your hungry, LONGING TO BE FREE…” but it doesn’t SAY, …Send your poor, your hungry, to just add another name ON the welfare rolls. Author unknown.