The Texas Governor saw Donald Trump use immigration as a ‘wedge’ issue….
But Trump still lost in 2020…
The Texas Governor keeps thinking of crazy shit to throw out to the media to drive his base….
This time?
He’s using the word ‘Invasion’ for the annual increase in border crossing’s…..
This would allow Texas to try to take over the Federal Government’s sole power to control the countries borders….
Could there be an election coming this fall?
For the past year, Mr. Abbott has transformed an unceasing flow of migrants over the border into a potent political message, seizing the role of defending the country from unauthorized migration as he runs for a third term in November. His aggressive posture has done little to stem the tide and also exposed him to fierce criticism that he is using his authority to meddle in a policy area that belongs to the federal government. Still, his efforts to tighten border security and harden Texas’s 1,254-mile frontier have helped Mr. Abbott, a Republican, hold off challenges from his right and made the lawyerly governor into a regular on Fox News.
Now Mr. Abbott is weighing whether to invoke actual war powers to seize much broader state authority on the border. He could do so, advocates inside and outside his administration argue, by officially declaring an “invasion” to comply with a clause in the U.S. Constitution that says states cannot engage in war except when “actually invaded.”
Top lawyers for Mr. Abbott and for the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, met this month to debate the move, which would put the state in a head-on collision with the federal government by allowing state police to arrest and deport migrants, according to two people familiar with the discussions. Mr. Abbott says he remains open to the approach, but he has expressed concern about unintended consequences.
“If we do use this strategy, it could expose law enforcement in the state of Texas to being prosecuted,” Mr. Abbott said during a recent news conference. But, he added: “Is it something we’re looking into? Yes.”…
President Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obradorspoke on Friday about migration and supply chain issues following trucker protests at the southern border and the administration’s rescission of a Trump-era public health rule this month.
“In view of the unprecedented flows of migrants from throughout the hemisphere to our two countries, the Presidents reiterated the need to build stronger tools for managing regional migration surges,” the White House said in a statement.
The U.S. and Mexico have previously worked together to implement measures that would lessen the number of migrants at the border….
Note….
Increasingly the Florida Governor seems to be running against the American Federal government…
That Federal Government provides Texas with 17.47% of its revenue….