The United State Immigration policy and enforcement is the job and responsibility of the Federal Government…
NOT the states….
These two Governor’s are trying to run things like it’s their ‘own’ countries….
It is NOT….
Texas…
To do this, Texas officials led by Gov. Greg Abbott developed a way around the fact that immigration enforcement is a federal government job: State and local police departments partner with the owners of borderland ranches, and use trespassing laws to arrest migrants who cross their land.
“That’s an effective way of sending a message,” Mr. Abbott said, flanked by nine other Republican governors, at a news conference along the border this fall. “If you come into the state of Texas illegally, you have a high likelihood of not getting caught and released, but instead, arrested and jailed.”
The new approach relies on the participation of local officials and, so far, it has been adopted in just two of the state’s 32 border region counties: Kinney, which includes Brackettville, and Val Verde, its neighbor to the west.
State officials could not say what effect, if any, the program has had on reducing illegal crossings, which have surged to at least 1.2 million in Texas so far this year, the highest recorded figure in more than two decades. (It remains unclear how many migrants are trying to cross multiple times.) But the operation has upended life both for the migrants caught up in its ad hoc processes and for the rural residents living under its net.
Perhaps nowhere has that been more acutely felt than the town of Brackettville, a former frontier outpost of 1,700 known for its surrounding hunting and cattle ranches, an old fort that once housed the army’s Black Seminole scouts, and an aging replica of the Alamo built for a John Wayne film.
Lately, it has been flooded with state police.
High speed chases are so frequent that the local school installed rock barriers to protect against crashes. Helicopters patrol the night sky. Ranchers, who are mostly white, lock their doors and carry pistols around their own properties, which many never did before. Town residents, a majority of whom are poor and Hispanic, complain they are routinely followed by officers newly assigned to the area….
Florida….
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ fight with the Biden administration over immigration has led to a $1.6 million state-funded border mission in Texas, a lawsuit against the federal government and an executive order enlisting the state’s law enforcement agency to collect information on “potential illegal immigrants” relocated to Florida by the federal government.
Now, the Republican governor wants $8 million to create a new program that would allow the state to contract with private companies to transport “unauthorized aliens” out of Florida.
The proposed program, which the governor wants to pay for with interest accrued from federal funds, and a “series” of incoming legislative bills that he says will fight “back against the Biden border crisis” are the latest battle lines drawn by a governor who appears to be drumming up a potential challenge against President Joe Biden in 2024.
“One of the priorities that we’ve been working on for many months now and we’ll continue to work with the Legislature when they get back is dealing with the fallout from the reckless border policies of the Biden administration,” DeSantis said at a news conference in Jacksonville on Friday.
DeSantis has said that Florida should be able to use buses to transport migrants to other parts of the country, like Delaware, a state Biden calls home….
The headline is wrong as to Texas.
All Abbott is doing is enforcing a state law against Trespassing.It has nothing directly to do with the fact they are illegal immigrants, although the admitted intent is to harass them.
In most states, including Texas ,Trespassing is a misdemeanor.Those convicted rarely go to jail and even if they do , its for a relatively short period of time.By arresting them though ,Texas will be obligated to provide them legal counsel which could be costly depending on how zealous they are in enforcement.
As to Florida, I’m unsure exactly what DeSantis is proposing.If he is going to have state officials arrest people for a violation of federal law such would have to be adjudicated in federal court, a lengthy process.If he intends to adopt some state law to preempt federal law that will set up another lengthy battle.I certainly don’t know his authority to “round up” people ,place them on a bus and send them some place against their will absent legal proceedings and even then how he proposes to ship them to another state.
Both DeSantis and Abbott are just trying to appeal to the Fox News viewers who like this stuff.Its not a serious effort to so anything substantive about illegal immigration.
In Florida the Governor has sent State Police offices to border locations to enforce TRESPASSING VIOLATION’s…
That why local cops handle serious crime…
DeSantis wants to waste his taxpayers money, or use OUR taxpayer money to do the same bullshit…
Like the headlines says …
And you say….
It IS pushing a ‘perception’ that they have their own immigration enforcement effort….
I agree….