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Jul 25, 2023, 2:53:55 AM7/25/23
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EAGLE PASS, Texas – Wrecking ball-sized buoys on the Rio Grande. Razor
wire strung across private property without permission. Bulldozers
changing the very terrain of America's southern border.
For more than two years, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has escalated
measures to keep migrants from entering the U.S., pushing legal boundaries
with a go-it-alone bravado along the state's 1,200-mile (1,930-kilometer)
border with Mexico. Now blowback over the tactics is widening, including
from within Texas.
A state trooper's account of officers denying migrants water in 100-degree
Fahrenheit (37.7 Celsius) temperatures and razor wire leaving asylum-
seekers bloodied has prompted renewed criticism. The Mexican government,
some Texas residents along the border and the Biden administration are
pushing back. On Monday, the U.S. Justice Department sued Abbott over the
buoy barrier that it says raises humanitarian and environmental concerns,
asking a federal court to require Texas to dismantle it.
Abbott, who cruised to a third term in November while promising tougher
border crackdowns, has used disaster declarations as the legal bedrock for
some measures.
Critics call that a warped view.
“There are so many ways that what Texas is doing right now is just
flagrantly illegal,” said David Donatti, an attorney for the Texas
American Civil Liberties Union.
Abbott did not respond to requests for comment. He has repeatedly attacked
President Joe Biden's border policies, tweeting Friday that they
"encourage migrants to risk their lives crossing illegally through the Rio
Grande, instead of safely and legally over a bridge.”
The Biden administration has said illegal border crossings have declined
significantly since new immigration rules took effect in May.
ALTERED BORDER
Under the international bridge connecting Eagle Pass, Texas, with Piedras
Negras, Mexico, protesters gathered at Shelby Park this month, chanting
“save the river" and blowing a conch shell in a ceremony. A few yards
away, crews unloaded neon-orange buoys from trailers parked by a boat ramp
off the Rio Grande.
Jessie Fuentes stood with the environmental advocates, watching as state
troopers restricted access to the water where he holds an annual kayak
race. Shipping containers and layers of concertina wire lined the
riverbank.
The experienced kayaker often took clients and race participants into the
water through a shallow channel formed by a border island covered in
verdant brush. That has been replaced by a bulldozed stretch of barren
land connected to the mainland and fortified with razor wire.
“The river is a federally protected river by so many federal agencies, and
I just don’t know how it happened,” Fuentes told the Eagle Pass City
Council the night before.
Neither did the City Council.
“I feel like the state government has kind of bypassed local government in
a lot of different ways. And so I felt powerless at times,” council member
Elias Diaz told The Associated Press.
The International Boundary of Water Commission says it was not notified
when Texas modified several islands or deployed the massive buoys to
create a barrier covering 1,000 feet (305 meters) of the middle of the Rio
Grande, with anchors in the riverbed.
Abbott on Monday sent a letter to Biden that defended Texas’ right to
install the barrier. He accused Biden of putting migrants at risk by not
doing more to deter them from making the journey to the U.S.
The floating barrier also provoked tension with Mexico, which says it
violates treaties. Mexico's secretary of foreign relations asked the U.S.
government to remove the buoys and razor wire in a June letter.
Fuentes sued over the buoys, arguing that border crossings are not covered
by the Texas Disaster Act.
As for the river islands, the Texas General Land Office gave the state
Department of Public Safety access starting in April “to curb the ongoing
border crisis."
“Additionally, the General Land Office will also permit vegetation
management, provided compliance with all applicable state and federal
regulations is upheld,” said a letter from the office's commissioner, Dawn
Buckingham.
The Texas Military Department cleared out carrizo cane, which Buckingham's
office called an “invasive plant” in its response to questions from the
AP, and changed the landscape, affecting the river's flow.
Environmental experts are concerned.
“As far as I know, if there’s flooding in the river, it’s much more severe
in Piedras Negras than it is in Eagle Pass because that’s the lower side
of the river. And so next time the river really gets up, it’s going to
push a lot of water over on the Mexican side, it looks like to me,” said
Tom Vaughan, a retired professor and co-founder of the Rio Grande
International Study Center.
Fuentes recently sought special permission from the city and DPS to
navigate through his familiar kayaking route.
“Since they rerouted the water on the island, the water is flowing
differently,” Fuentes said. “I can feel it.”
The state declined to release any records that might detail the
environmental impacts of the buoys or changes to the landscape.
Victor Escalon, a DPS regional director overseeing Del Rio down to
Brownsville, pointed to the governor's emergency disaster declaration. “We
do everything we can to prevent crime, period. And that’s the job,” he
added.
TRESPASSING TO STOP TRESPASSERS
For one property owner, the DPS mission cut him out of his land.
In 2021, as Eagle Pass became the preferred route by migrants crossing
into the U.S., Magali and Hugo Urbina bought a pecan orchard by the river
that they called Heavenly Farms.
Hugo Urbina worked with DPS when the agency built a fence on his property
and arrested migrants for trespassing. But the relationship turned
acrimonious a year later after DPS asked to put up concertina wire on
riverfront property that the Urbinas were leasing to the U.S. Border
Patrol to process immigrants.
Hugo Urbina wanted DPS to sign a lease that would release him from
liability if the wire caused injuries. DPS declined but still installed
concertina wire, moved vehicles onto the property and shut the Urbinas'
gates. That cut off the Border Patrol's access to the river, though it
still leases land from Urbina.
“They do whatever it is that they want,” Urbina said this month.
The farmer, a Republican, calls it “poison politics.” Critics call it déjà
vu.
“I also really see a very strong correlation to the Trump and post-Trump
era in which most of the Trump administration’s immigration policy was
aggressive and extreme and very violative of people’s rights, and very
focused on making the political point,” said Aron Thorn, an attorney with
the Texas Civil Rights Project. “The design of this is the optics and the
amount of things that they sacrifice for those optics now is quite
extraordinary.”
DPS works with 300 landowners, according to Escalon. He said it is unusual
for the department to take over a property without the landowner’s
consent, but the agency says the Disaster Act provides the authority.
Urbina said he supports the governor’s efforts, “but not in this way."
"You don’t go out there and start breaking the law and start making your
citizens feel like they’re second-hand citizens,” he added.
Liberal assholes run their mouths and not one of them comes up with a
solution to stop the flow of illegal aliens.
https://www.ksat.com/news/politics/2023/07/24/texas-is-using-disaster-
declarations-to-install-buoys-and-razor-wire-on-the-us-mexico-border/
wire strung across private property without permission. Bulldozers
changing the very terrain of America's southern border.
For more than two years, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has escalated
measures to keep migrants from entering the U.S., pushing legal boundaries
with a go-it-alone bravado along the state's 1,200-mile (1,930-kilometer)
border with Mexico. Now blowback over the tactics is widening, including
from within Texas.
A state trooper's account of officers denying migrants water in 100-degree
Fahrenheit (37.7 Celsius) temperatures and razor wire leaving asylum-
seekers bloodied has prompted renewed criticism. The Mexican government,
some Texas residents along the border and the Biden administration are
pushing back. On Monday, the U.S. Justice Department sued Abbott over the
buoy barrier that it says raises humanitarian and environmental concerns,
asking a federal court to require Texas to dismantle it.
Abbott, who cruised to a third term in November while promising tougher
border crackdowns, has used disaster declarations as the legal bedrock for
some measures.
Critics call that a warped view.
“There are so many ways that what Texas is doing right now is just
flagrantly illegal,” said David Donatti, an attorney for the Texas
American Civil Liberties Union.
Abbott did not respond to requests for comment. He has repeatedly attacked
President Joe Biden's border policies, tweeting Friday that they
"encourage migrants to risk their lives crossing illegally through the Rio
Grande, instead of safely and legally over a bridge.”
The Biden administration has said illegal border crossings have declined
significantly since new immigration rules took effect in May.
ALTERED BORDER
Under the international bridge connecting Eagle Pass, Texas, with Piedras
Negras, Mexico, protesters gathered at Shelby Park this month, chanting
“save the river" and blowing a conch shell in a ceremony. A few yards
away, crews unloaded neon-orange buoys from trailers parked by a boat ramp
off the Rio Grande.
Jessie Fuentes stood with the environmental advocates, watching as state
troopers restricted access to the water where he holds an annual kayak
race. Shipping containers and layers of concertina wire lined the
riverbank.
The experienced kayaker often took clients and race participants into the
water through a shallow channel formed by a border island covered in
verdant brush. That has been replaced by a bulldozed stretch of barren
land connected to the mainland and fortified with razor wire.
“The river is a federally protected river by so many federal agencies, and
I just don’t know how it happened,” Fuentes told the Eagle Pass City
Council the night before.
Neither did the City Council.
“I feel like the state government has kind of bypassed local government in
a lot of different ways. And so I felt powerless at times,” council member
Elias Diaz told The Associated Press.
The International Boundary of Water Commission says it was not notified
when Texas modified several islands or deployed the massive buoys to
create a barrier covering 1,000 feet (305 meters) of the middle of the Rio
Grande, with anchors in the riverbed.
Abbott on Monday sent a letter to Biden that defended Texas’ right to
install the barrier. He accused Biden of putting migrants at risk by not
doing more to deter them from making the journey to the U.S.
The floating barrier also provoked tension with Mexico, which says it
violates treaties. Mexico's secretary of foreign relations asked the U.S.
government to remove the buoys and razor wire in a June letter.
Fuentes sued over the buoys, arguing that border crossings are not covered
by the Texas Disaster Act.
As for the river islands, the Texas General Land Office gave the state
Department of Public Safety access starting in April “to curb the ongoing
border crisis."
“Additionally, the General Land Office will also permit vegetation
management, provided compliance with all applicable state and federal
regulations is upheld,” said a letter from the office's commissioner, Dawn
Buckingham.
The Texas Military Department cleared out carrizo cane, which Buckingham's
office called an “invasive plant” in its response to questions from the
AP, and changed the landscape, affecting the river's flow.
Environmental experts are concerned.
“As far as I know, if there’s flooding in the river, it’s much more severe
in Piedras Negras than it is in Eagle Pass because that’s the lower side
of the river. And so next time the river really gets up, it’s going to
push a lot of water over on the Mexican side, it looks like to me,” said
Tom Vaughan, a retired professor and co-founder of the Rio Grande
International Study Center.
Fuentes recently sought special permission from the city and DPS to
navigate through his familiar kayaking route.
“Since they rerouted the water on the island, the water is flowing
differently,” Fuentes said. “I can feel it.”
The state declined to release any records that might detail the
environmental impacts of the buoys or changes to the landscape.
Victor Escalon, a DPS regional director overseeing Del Rio down to
Brownsville, pointed to the governor's emergency disaster declaration. “We
do everything we can to prevent crime, period. And that’s the job,” he
added.
TRESPASSING TO STOP TRESPASSERS
For one property owner, the DPS mission cut him out of his land.
In 2021, as Eagle Pass became the preferred route by migrants crossing
into the U.S., Magali and Hugo Urbina bought a pecan orchard by the river
that they called Heavenly Farms.
Hugo Urbina worked with DPS when the agency built a fence on his property
and arrested migrants for trespassing. But the relationship turned
acrimonious a year later after DPS asked to put up concertina wire on
riverfront property that the Urbinas were leasing to the U.S. Border
Patrol to process immigrants.
Hugo Urbina wanted DPS to sign a lease that would release him from
liability if the wire caused injuries. DPS declined but still installed
concertina wire, moved vehicles onto the property and shut the Urbinas'
gates. That cut off the Border Patrol's access to the river, though it
still leases land from Urbina.
“They do whatever it is that they want,” Urbina said this month.
The farmer, a Republican, calls it “poison politics.” Critics call it déjà
vu.
“I also really see a very strong correlation to the Trump and post-Trump
era in which most of the Trump administration’s immigration policy was
aggressive and extreme and very violative of people’s rights, and very
focused on making the political point,” said Aron Thorn, an attorney with
the Texas Civil Rights Project. “The design of this is the optics and the
amount of things that they sacrifice for those optics now is quite
extraordinary.”
DPS works with 300 landowners, according to Escalon. He said it is unusual
for the department to take over a property without the landowner’s
consent, but the agency says the Disaster Act provides the authority.
Urbina said he supports the governor’s efforts, “but not in this way."
"You don’t go out there and start breaking the law and start making your
citizens feel like they’re second-hand citizens,” he added.
Liberal assholes run their mouths and not one of them comes up with a
solution to stop the flow of illegal aliens.
https://www.ksat.com/news/politics/2023/07/24/texas-is-using-disaster-
declarations-to-install-buoys-and-razor-wire-on-the-us-mexico-border/
Duke Mantee
Jul 25, 2023, 10:11:10 PM7/25/23
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On 7/25/2023 12:53 AM, Okay so shoot the illegals wrote:
> “There are so many ways that what Texas is doing right now is just
> flagrantly illegal,” said David Donatti, an attorney for the Texas
> American Civil Liberties Union.
The ACLU wants to just give Texas and other border states to Mexico,
> “There are so many ways that what Texas is doing right now is just
> flagrantly illegal,” said David Donatti, an attorney for the Texas
> American Civil Liberties Union.
erasing our border and turning the USA into Greater Mexico. ACLU
attorneys should be stripped of American citizenship and get dumped in
Haiti.
Biden and Mayorkas' Open Border: Advancing Cartel Crime in America
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security
By Jessica M. Vaughan on July 19, 2023
Thank you, Mr. Green and Mr. Thompson, for the opportunity to testify
today. The mass migration crisis instigated by the Biden
administration’s misguided immigration policies has caused incalculable
harm to American communities, to the integrity of our immigration
system, and, tragically, to many of the migrants themselves. While there
are a number of beneficiaries of these policies, including employers
seeking cheap, exploitable workers; NGOs who are awarded huge contracts
to provide services to migrants; and politicians who welcome the
addition of non-citizen constituents to their districts, to name a few,
the biggest winners under the Biden-Mayorkas policies are the criminal
cartels and other transnational criminal organizations who are reaping
profits on a nearly unimaginable scale. Drug trafficking is big
business, and we’ve witnessed an alarming spike in the most dangerous
drugs like fentanyl, but reportedly in recent years the cartels actually
have been making more money from human smuggling and trafficking than
from drugs. The fiscal and human cost is serious and enormous. Congress
should take certain steps to combat the cartels specifically, but the
most effective action would be to address the main cause of the problem
– the array of policies, unauthorized entry programs, and legal
loopholes that generate the most profitable customers for the cartels –
illegal migrants.
Read the full testimony.
https://cis.org/sites/default/files/2023-07/Biden-Mayorkas-Open-Border.pdf
--
You voted for student loan forgiveness. You got demographic replacement
and World War 3.
"Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) defines several distinct offenses related to
aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic
transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring
unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to
enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and
abetting any of the preceding acts. Subsection 1324(a)(2) prohibits
bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States
in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection
1324(a)(3)."
“You dont need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” (1960s
folksinger)
https://www.globalgulag.us
Duke Mantee
Jul 27, 2023, 7:59:15 PM7/27/23
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On 7/25/2023 12:53 AM, Okay so shoot the illegals wrote:
> “There are so many ways that what Texas is doing right now is just
> flagrantly illegal,” said David Donatti, an attorney for the Texas
> American Civil Liberties Union.
It seems my earlier followup reply was removed from eternal-september
> flagrantly illegal,” said David Donatti, an attorney for the Texas
> American Civil Liberties Union.
dot org news provider, so I will paste my earlier reply a second time.
- Duke
You voted for student loan forgiveness. You got demographic replacement
and World War 3.
"Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) defines several distinct offenses related to
aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic
transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring
unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to
enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and
abetting any of the preceding acts. Subsection 1324(a)(2) prohibits
bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States
in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection
1324(a)(3)."
“Western values mean three things: migration, LGBTQ, and war." Victor Orban
and World War 3.
"Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) defines several distinct offenses related to
aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic
transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring
unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to
enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and
abetting any of the preceding acts. Subsection 1324(a)(2) prohibits
bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States
in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection
1324(a)(3)."
https://www.globalgulag.us
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