Texico Update

by JASmius



Remember last year's border crisis?  Well, it might have slowed down a smidge over the fall and winter, but it's picking up steam once again:

"We all saw what happened on the Texas border last summer, but we need to understand that the problem is not going away," Texas Governor Greg Abbott told CBS's Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer on Sunday.

"Already this calendar year, since January 1st, we have had more than 20,000 people come across the border, apprehended, unauthorized. And so we have an ongoing problem on the border that Congress must step up and solve."

That annualizes to almost 138,000 at the current "winter rate".  As we get into the spring months, that rate will increase geometrically and we'll be at last summer's 300,000 level or more in no time.

Also: Be careful what you wish for, Governor.  Congress's idea of "solving the immigration problem" has been and will always be "Comprehensive Immigration Reform".  No Congress imaginable will ever do what's necessary to actually solve the illegal alien invasion - namely, deport all the illegals and seal the border against illegal entry via a fence, barbed wire, and a moat to connect the Rio Grande to the Pacific Coast.  And even if they did, Barack Obama would never enforce it, and is in fact already imposing his own antithetical policy instead, of which an unceasing influx of illegals is its core.

Schieffer reminded Abbott that there are some 800,000 illegal aliens living in Texas right now. "You don't have enough buses to send them back to Mexico, and I don't expect you can put all of them in jail. What are you going to do with them?" he asked Abbott.

Get enough buses, then.  And build the damn fence, complete with barbed wire and (dummy) mines.  Except don't publicly disclose that that mines won't explode.  We don't want to be lacking in compassion, after all.

"Well, two things," the governor responded. "One is, the president himself said as these people were coming across the border that he would repatriate them as soon as possible.

And you believed him?  Wow, maybe Greg Abbott is a bit higher on the gullibility scale than his predecessor in Austin.

Or he's trying to put additional pressure on The One to keep that word, or at least further expose its falsity.

So, we need to see whether or not the president himself is going to live up to the commitment that he made."

Kinda obvious, no?

Governor Abbott is taking what steps he can within Texas - five hundred more Department of Public Safety officers, more Texas Rangers, more technology - which is adversely impacting the Texas State budget, or rather like what Judge Hanen said in his injunction last week.  But that's the best he can do, because when it comes to controlling the Texas-Mexico border, the Lone Star State really is on its own.

Until DOJ sues them for it, that is.


UPDATE: Redundant proof of what we already knew - Obamnesty will reduce deportations, if not eliminate them altogether:



Or, in other words:

President Obama claimed his executive amnesty would “stem the flow of illegal crossings and speed the return of those who do crossover.” But internal e-mails obtained by National Review Online reveal that his administration has taken steps to ensure the opposite outcome, ordering Border Patrol agents to curtail the initiation of deportation proceedings and to screen the illegal border crossers they detail for eligibility under the president’s deferred-action programs instead.

Lock and load, Governor Abbott and Senator McConnell.  The time to attack is now.  Because you're not going to be able to hide behind Judge Hanen's robes indefinitely.