In case you're wondering why....c'mon, isn't it obvious by now?:
When former Governor Rick Perry ordered a big reinforcement of security at the Mexico border in 2011, Texas bought six new gunboats that can fire nine hundred rounds a minute and clock highway speeds. But the boats, which cost $580,000 each, spent more time docked than patrolling the Rio Grande.
That was a small price tag compared with what Texas is about to spend. The new Republican governor, Greg Abbott, this month approved $800 million for border security over the next two years — more than double any similar period during Perry's fourteen years in office.
On Texas' shopping list is a second $7.5 million high-altitude plane to scan the border, a new border crime data center, a five thousand-acre training facility for border law-enforcement agencies and grants for year-round helicopter flights. The State also wants to hire two dozen Texas Rangers to investigate public corruption along the border and two hundred fifty new State troopers as a down payment on a permanent force along the border.
Other States along the nearly two thousand-mile [former] Southwest border — New Mexico, Arizona and California — do not come remotely close to the resources Texas has committed. And Texas is doing so long after last year's surge in [illegal aliens] crossing the border has subsided.
So why is Texas setting up what appears to be a parallel border patrol alongside the federal force?
"Google 'cartel crime in Mexico' and just put a time period of the last week, and you'll see some dramatic instances of what the cartels are doing in Mexico right now," Abbott told reporters this month following the legislative session.
Among other things.
"The first obligation of government is to keep people safe and that means ensuring that this ongoing cartel activity, which is not abating whatsoever, gains no root at all in the State of Texas." [emphasis added]
Article IV, Section 4: "The United States shall....protect each [State] against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence." The Obama Regime is refusing to do any of this. So Texas has decided that it's just going to have to do it itself.
Which means, of course, that Reichsfuhreress Lynch and DOJ will be suing Governor Abbott to block his efforts, probably before the week is out. Either that, or O will send in federal troops to invade Texas and stop them physically. Probably as an outgrowth of Operation Jade Helm.
Meanwhile, despite the law, despite the Constitution, despite Article II, Section 1, Clause 9, despite federal appeals court-upheld federal court injunctions against his illegal, unlawful, unconstitutional amnesty, "The Great Amnestizer" steamrolls on with more of his patented "prosecutorial discretion":
A new report claims U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has mostly ceased efforts to enforce laws pertaining to hiring illegal workers in the United States.
According to the Center for Immigration Studies, the number of workplace audits dropped from 3,127 in 2013 to 181 in the first five months of the current fiscal year.
A 94.2% drop, in case you're keeping score at home.
Twenty-seven employers have been charged with hiring illegal workers during the current fiscal year, well off pace of the overall 2013 figure of 179....
An 84.9% decline.
The data is telling, particularly after Barack Obama took [illegal] executive actions on immigration last fall that could grant amnesty to as many as [twenty] million illegal [alien]s currently living in the U.S. The legislation is on hold now as it's sorted out in the court system.
The policy shift in enforcing workplace laws, according to the Center for Immigration Studies report, was mentioned in a 2009 ICE memo. Instead of conducting raids on businesses suspected of employing illegal workers, the agency was instructed to instead focus on select businesses and examine their personnel records.
The change has resulted in a drastic reduction in fines collected by the government, from $9.4 million in 2013 to a projected 2015 figure of $4.6 million. [emphasis added]
Bottom line: Obama always meant to do this. He always meant to seize that power, seize ALL power, and erase the southern border with it (among other things). It's part & parcel of "fundamental transformation," to "bring America down to the level of the rest of the world" in no small part by bringing the rest of the world here, whether - especially if - we like it or not.
It's a profoundly wearying thing to have our own president constantly at war with us on behalf of our enemies, and to realize that his lawlessness brings the Twenty-Second Amendment into serious question. Is there not any reset button we could push that would unwind the past eight years and enforce a non-worst case scenario in its place? Please?
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